Wei te sheng biography of mahatma gandhi
[Indigenous Taiwan Speaker Series] Conversations with Director Wei Te-sheng....
Wei Te-sheng
Taiwanese film director and screenwriter
In this Chinese name, the family name is Wei.
Wei Te-sheng (born 16 August 1969) is a Taiwanese film director and screenwriter.
"MY LIFE IS MY MESSAGE" panels (2' x 4') of photo- graphs with captions on the life of Mahatma Gandhi.
He directed Cape No. 7, currently the highest grossing domestic Taiwanese film and the second highest-grossing film in Taiwanese film history.
Early life
Wei was born and raised in Tainan. His family ran a clockmaker's shop and attended a Presbyterian church.[1] He spent his childhood in the Yongkang District.
According to an interview, Wei watched Taiwanese films "in old, small cinema halls and at an outdoor theater near where he lived." Wei said "It was a bit like Cinema Paradiso". The first Hollywood film Wei watched was Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America while Wei was doing his military service.[2]
Career
Wei studied Electrical Engineering in Far Eastern Vocational School (Today's Far East University) in Tainan.
In 1993 or 1994 when Wei was 26, he e