‘Taipei Suicide Story’ Sweeps Top Awards At Slamdance Film Festival

The Slamdance Film Festival unveiled winners for its 27th edition Thursday, with the compact drama Taipei Suicide Story directed by KEFF taking both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for narrative features and the best actor prize during a virtual awards ceremony. The drama is about a receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei who forms a friendship over the course of one night with a guest who can't decide if she wants to live or die. The pic, which also was in the official Cinéfondation selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, runs 45 minutes. Tender Huang, who plays the hotel receptionist, was named best actor during the ceremony wrapping this year's edition, which ran as a virtual edition February 12-25. Related Story Slamdance Film Festival Winners Led By ‘Murmur’ And ‘Residue’ "A film that is concise and emotionally effective as it portrays isolation with humanity and complex pathos," the jury said in its comments about the pic today. The jury awarded honorable mention for the narrative prize to Jayden Stevens' A Family . Other juried winners in the selection of 15 world premieres in its 20-film competition lineup and 107 short films in eight categories included Code Name:… Read full this story

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