New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Cédric Jouarie, a French director living and working in Taipei, who is currently filming the documentary The Soil and the Seeds. The Soil and the Seeds focuses on the children of inmates in Taiwan as they stage the play, "I Was Once A Child"...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Valerie Soe, the director of Love Boat: Taiwan. Love Boat: Taiwan is a recently released documentary about the Overseas Compatriot Youth Formosa Study Tour, better known as the "Love Boat", a program which provides a monthlong tour of Taiwan for individuals of Taiwanese or Chinese descent born outside of Taiwan or China from 1967 onward. The "Love Boat" program remains widely known among diasporic Taiwanese even today...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Stuart and Lance Chen-Hayes, who recently published Double Dads One Teen: A Queer Family’s Trailblazing Life in the USA and Taiwan, by e-mail, following a meeting in Taipei. Lance is Taiwan's first out gay dad and their nonbinary teen, Kalani, recently became the first Taiwanese citizen with two father's names on both an international birth certificate and an international marriage license...
New Bloom editor Chenhuang Jinju interviewed Daguan Community resident Zhou Xiang-pin on March 9th, 2019. Daguan Community residents currently face the forced demolition of their homes by the New Taipei city government on March 18th of this month...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Kathy Cheng, who runs the blog Tricky Taipei and is currently crowdfunding for a children's picture book about Taipei, Hey Taipei...
