{"id":1411,"date":"2017-06-11T19:55:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T19:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/06\/11\/chi-po-lin-director-of-beyond-beauty-taiwan-from-above-dies-at-52\/"},"modified":"2017-06-11T19:55:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T19:55:04","slug":"chi-po-lin-director-of-beyond-beauty-taiwan-from-above-dies-at-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/06\/11\/chi-po-lin-director-of-beyond-beauty-taiwan-from-above-dies-at-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Chi Po-lin, Director of \u2018Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above,\u2019 Dies at 52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just days after announcing a sequel to his film &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/beyond-beauty-taiwan-from-above\/\" id=\"auto-tag_beyond-beauty-taiwan-from-above\">Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above<\/a>,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/chi-po-lin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chi-po-lin\">Chi Po-lin<\/a> died in a helicopter crash yesterday. The Taiwanese director was 52. Pilot Chang Chih-kuang and his assistant Chen Kuan-chi were also killed in the accident, which took place near the town of Fengbin just before noon local time. There were no survivors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/06\/ben-affleck-adam-west-batman-1201840535\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">READ MORE: Ben Affleck Pays Tribute to Adam West: \u2018Thank You for Showing Us All How It\u2019s Done\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDirector Chi\u2019s works have allowed us to see the beauty of Taiwan, and inspired others to join the efforts to conserve our land. His passing is a tremendous loss to Taiwan,\u201d said Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen on social media. Chi had previously served as an aerial photographer for Taiwan&#8217;s Ministry of Transportation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/06\/adam-west-dead-batman-1201840330\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">READ MORE: Adam West, TV\u2019s Original Batman, Dies at 88<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Born December 27, 1964 in Taipei, Chi won the award for Best Documentary at the 2013 Golden Horse Awards for &#8220;Beyond Beauty&#8221;; he also directed the short films &#8220;Taiwan from the Air&#8221; and &#8220;Taichung: The Heart of Taiwan.&#8221; &#8220;Beyond Beauty II&#8221; was scheduled for release in 2019 and Chi is said to have been shooting footage for it when the accident occurred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after announcing a sequel to his film &#8220;Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above,&#8221; Chi Po-lin died in a helicopter crash&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-mL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}