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Teacher X- Gin's Lesson in Discrimination

The one-day teacher of this episode is Gin Oy, a writer and model. When she was younger, she was discriminated and bullied because she was a plump girl with tattoos, which caused her to suffer from major depression in her adolescence. So she intends to let the kids know what discrimination can do to hurt someone’s feelings.
She divides the students into two groups, according to the unchangeable hereditary characteristic of their earlobes. With a made-up experiment, she convinces the kids that those with free earlobes has better self-control while those with attached earlobes have to stay inside the classroom during the breaks to study harder. Being tagged as someone born to be worse than the others, what will the kids react to this discrimination?

  • LAI Bing-Huan
    Director
  • LAI Yan-Ru
    Director
  • LAI Yan-Ru
    Writer
  • SHU Yi-Chi
    Producer
  • DING Xiao-Jing
    Executive Producer
  • YU Pei-Hua
    Supervising Producer
  • LIN Chiung-Fen
    Supervising Producer
  • LAI Bing-Huan
    Editor
  • WU Shang-Yun
    Production Assistant
  • ZENG Zi-Hao
    Production Assistant
  • LAI Bing-Huan
    Cinematographer
  • WANG Han-De
    Cinematographer
  • YU-SHI Communication Productions Ltd.
    Cinematographer
  • ZHENG Jie-Wei
    Audio
  • YU-SHI Communication Productions Ltd.
    Audio
  • JIANG Du-Hui
    Voice Over
  • Spinning Studio
    Animation
  • CHEN Shu-Zheng
    Post-Production
  • Sheng-Du Communication Ltd.
    Sound Effect
  • XIAO Zhao-Jun
    Consultant
  • ZHANG Jia-Lun
    Consultant
  • WU Pei-Wen
    Consultant
  • Project Type:
    Student, Television
  • Genres:
    Live Action, Discrimination
  • Runtime:
    25 minutes 48 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 31, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    HDCAM
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 2016 International Public Television Screening Conference
    Calgary
    Canada
    May 10, 2016
  • 2016 Banff World Media Festival
    Banff
    Canada
    Rockie Award in Children & Youth Nonfiction Category
Director Biography - LAI Bing-Huan, LAI Yan-Ru

Lai Bin-Huan is born in Jiayi, Taiwan, in 1974. Because of his field search of psychology and drama performance, he has been interested in understanding human nature, education and culture. In 2001, with a government scholarship, he was enrolled in London Film School. After three years of travelling around Europe and studying film production, he came back to Taiwan and hoped to create films filled with energy to care for this island. In 2008, he joined PTS to help with news program production. From then on, he has been trying to further understand the main issues of today’s social problems. In 2015, he began to work as a director.

Lai Yan-Ru services in public media in Taiwan for many years. She has been involved in the production of multiple types of programs including children and youths, popular science, literature and drama.

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Director Statement

Discrimination is an inevitable problem in a society. However, if we’re more self-conscious, less people would be affected by discrimination.
This is what we want the children to learn from this experience. We don’t want it to be a slogan, but we want the audience to know that even if an act of discrimination doesn’t look harmful, someone would be hurt by it somehow.