Some old news from June 04: Yu Sen-lun wrote, The government bails out local film industry in Taiwan:

Premier Yu Shyi-kun announced last week the government will provide NT$100 million per film, as a part of a package of policy reform measures to stimulate the ailing film industry.

It's a waste of money.

Meanwhile, Jonathan Ansfield reports Art films repackaged as porn to sell in China:

In "Maiden Work", amateur actors play young bohemian types in post-Mao Beijing. The film self-consciously probes the trials of a lesbian couple and a painter of nudes but, most revealingly, the film makers behind the scenes.

Repackaged, renamed and edited to accentuate the same-sex liaison, the DVD's lurid veneer gives little hint of the raw experiment inside. "Minors under the age of 18 barred from viewing," the cover stresses.

A synopsis on the cover suggests a non-existent love triangle. The movie also has a new title, roughly translating into "Women of desire, body to body".

处女作 sounds sexier in Chinese, where maiden = virgin