The 5th Taipei Golden Eagle Micro-movie Festival Award winners were announced on January 27. A total of 36 companies with 48 film entries participated in the contest this year. After a thorough discussion, a panel of 12 professional judges selected 13 winning works in the categories of Top Ten Sustainability Micro-movies of the Year, Judges’ Special Award and the People’s Choice Award. And Taiwan Fu Hsing’s “BetterUp Program: Making Dreams Come True for Migrant Workers” was awarded “Judges’ Special Award” for its “excellent quality and unique topic.”  

 

The Taipei Golden Eagle Micro-movie Festival Award, organized by Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy (TAISE), aims to discover the stories of corporal sustainable development and present the results to the public in the form of micro-movies. Festival Chairman Eugene Chien Y. H. remarked: “The film entries this year are of excellent quality that show tremendous variety and scope both in terms of themes and contents. They are very intriguing and thought-provoking.” These 13 awards-winning works cover issues such as rural education, regional revitalization, and arts and culture. Among all the entries, Taiwan Fu Hsing’s micro-movie is the only one that focuses on caring for migrant workers in response to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as “No Poverty” and “Reduced Inequalities.”

 

Co-produced by Taiwan Fu Hsing Culture & Education Foundation and One-Forty, the micro-movie, the “BetterUp Program: Making Dreams Come True for Migrant Workers,” emerged from the courses offered by One-Forty in collaboration with the Foundation in 2019. In the whole process, we noticed those migrant workers truly dreamed a dream and thus decided to initiate “a dream-realization plan” to help them pursue their dreams. In the movie, we offer a set of painting tools to one foreign colleague who loves to paint; we also arrange a big surprise for another colleague, letting his father, whom he has not seen for 27 years, quietly shows up in front of him at Fu Hsing. After being launched online, the movie struck a responsive chord with nearly one hundred thousand viewers and 3,500 likes. Many netizens even left messages, indicating they were so moved by the movie to show their supports to the project.

 

Our Company later expanded this dream plan and turned it into a long-term “Dream Project,” encouraging our migrant employees to apply for the Company’s dream realization grants. In 2019, our foreign colleague JP who enjoys painting received the grant. It enabled him to enroll in a painting course and completed several oil paintings, which were displayed in the annual migrant worker photography exhibition, “Opportunity: Taiwan,” at the Pier 2 Art Center in October last year.

 

If you would like to view our award-winning micro-movie, please click on the link https://reurl.cc/1g2XEX.

 

For more information about the “BetterUp Program”, please clink on https://youtu.be/Jj4YWSfabJ8.