'Formosa Betrayed' director and stars at FCCT

If you missed it, the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand will show it again at 8pm on Tuesday, April 9. Taiwanese-American screenwriter, producer and actor Will Tiao will be present, along with director Adam Kane and actress Mintita Wattanakul.
The fact-based screenplay was penned by Tiao, who before getting into showbiz worked as an international economist in the presidential administrations of Bill Clinton and George W Bush.
Touching on controversial topics, “Formosa Betrayed” couldn’t be made in Taiwan, so the production shifted to Thailand, where Taipei in the 1980s is recreated in Bangkok.
Set at the time of the military dictatorship in Taiwan, the story centres on a FBI agent (James Van Der Beek) who is searching for two gangsters who murdered a Taiwanese-American professor in Chicago. The hunt brings him to Taipei, where his investigation is stymied by an American diplomat and by the Taiwanese police. He then meets an activist who blows the lid off the case.
Admission to the FCCT screening for non-members is Bt150. The club is in the penthouse of the Maneeya Centre on Ploenchit Road at the Chitlom skytrain station. For more information call (02) 652 0580 or visit www.fccthai.com.
Highlighting such made-in-Thailand Hollywood movies as “The Hangover Part II” and “Bangkok Dangerous”, the Thailand International Destination Film Festival continues until Wednesday, April 10, at SF World Cinema at CentralWorld. For more information, click www.thailandfilmdestination.com.