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Invisible Nation: How to Promote Facts and Truth. In an age of information warfare, defending truth is vital. Leading journalists and digital strategists will explore methods to counter disinformation—such as exposing campaigns, reforming social media algorithms, and supporting independent media and exile networks. The discussion will highlight Taiwan’s pioneering approaches to countering disinformation as seen in INVISIBLE NATION, and consider how storytelling, technology, and education can build more informed societies.
Watch the film in advance (1/7-1/11) and join us for a live panel on 1/11, 8pm ET.
About Invisible Nation: Unprecedented access to Taiwan’s first female president, Tsai Ing-wen, centers this portrait of the constantly colonized island, as it struggles to preserve its hard-won democracy, autonomy, and freedom from fear of authoritarian aggression. Thorough, incisive, and bristling with tension, Invisible Nation is a living account of Tsai’s tightrope walk as she balances the hopes and dreams of her nation between the colossal geopolitical forces of the U.S. and China. Invisible Nation captures Tsai at work in her country’s vibrant democracy, while seeking full international recognition of Taiwan’s right to exist. At a time when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated the ever-present threat of authoritarian aggression around the world, Invisible Nation brings a punctual focus to the struggles of Taiwan.
Speakers:
Vanessa Hope (Moderator) is an award-winning producer and director who has produced multiple acclaimed films in China including Berlin International Film Festival selection, Wang Quanan's The Story Of Ermei and Cannes Film Festival selection, Chantal Akerman's Tombee De Nuit Sur Shanghai, part of an omnibus of films, The State Of The World. She has also directed and produced several doc shorts, including China In Three Words, an official selection at DOC NYC. Hope made her directorial feature debut with the documentary All Eyes and Ears, an exploration of the complex links between the U.S. and China featuring former President Obama’s US Ambassador to China and premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival. She is the director of Invisible Nation.
Wen Liu is a Taiwanese scholar, writer, and activist based in Taipei. She is an Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. She received her Ph.D. in Critical Social Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York in 2017. She is affiliated with the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University. Liu’s first book with the University of Illinois Press in 2024, Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility between Assimilation and Oppression (winner of the 2018 National Women’s Studies Association First Book Prize), investigates diasporic Asian American subjectivities and affective geopolitical alignment in times of US-China inter-imperial rivalry. The project illustrates the historical and contemporary articulations of Asian Americanness in the intertwined geopolitical relations between the US and the Asia Pacific using ethnography, narrative, archive, and discourse analysis. Currently, she is conducting fieldwork on the rise of grassroots civil defense mobilization in Taiwan and investigating how Taiwanese civil society responds to the escalating war threats from China. She serves as the committee member of the Whole-of-Society Defense Resilience Committee under the Presidential Office in Taiwan.
Chris Horton is a Taipei-based journalist and author who for the past 10 years has covered cross-strait politics, domestic politics, the economy, and culture in Taiwan for The New York Times, Bloomberg News, The Atlantic, Nikkei Asia and elsewhere. He has lived in Taiwan since 2015, after working in China and Hong Kong over the preceding 15 years. His new book, Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival, will be published in the US by Macmillan on February 10.
Invisible Nation: How to Promote Facts and Truth. In an age of information warfare, defending truth is vital. Leading journalists and digital strategists will explore methods to counter disinformation—such as exposing campaigns, reforming social media algorithms, and supporting independent media and exile networks. The discussion will highlight Taiwan’s pioneering approaches to countering disinformation as seen in INVISIBLE NATION, and consider how storytelling, technology, and education can build more informed societies.
Watch the film in advance (1/7-1/11) and join us for a live panel on 1/11, 8pm ET.
About Invisible Nation: Unprecedented access to Taiwan’s first female president, Tsai Ing-wen, centers this portrait of the constantly colonized island, as it struggles to preserve its hard-won democracy, autonomy, and freedom from fear of authoritarian aggression. Thorough, incisive, and bristling with tension, Invisible Nation is a living account of Tsai’s tightrope walk as she balances the hopes and dreams of her nation between the colossal geopolitical forces of the U.S. and China. Invisible Nation captures Tsai at work in her country’s vibrant democracy, while seeking full international recognition of Taiwan’s right to exist. At a time when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated the ever-present threat of authoritarian aggression around the world, Invisible Nation brings a punctual focus to the struggles of Taiwan.
Speakers:
Vanessa Hope (Moderator) is an award-winning producer and director who has produced multiple acclaimed films in China including Berlin International Film Festival selection, Wang Quanan's The Story Of Ermei and Cannes Film Festival selection, Chantal Akerman's Tombee De Nuit Sur Shanghai, part of an omnibus of films, The State Of The World. She has also directed and produced several doc shorts, including China In Three Words, an official selection at DOC NYC. Hope made her directorial feature debut with the documentary All Eyes and Ears, an exploration of the complex links between the U.S. and China featuring former President Obama’s US Ambassador to China and premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival. She is the director of Invisible Nation.
Wen Liu is a Taiwanese scholar, writer, and activist based in Taipei. She is an Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. She received her Ph.D. in Critical Social Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York in 2017. She is affiliated with the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University. Liu’s first book with the University of Illinois Press in 2024, Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility between Assimilation and Oppression (winner of the 2018 National Women’s Studies Association First Book Prize), investigates diasporic Asian American subjectivities and affective geopolitical alignment in times of US-China inter-imperial rivalry. The project illustrates the historical and contemporary articulations of Asian Americanness in the intertwined geopolitical relations between the US and the Asia Pacific using ethnography, narrative, archive, and discourse analysis. Currently, she is conducting fieldwork on the rise of grassroots civil defense mobilization in Taiwan and investigating how Taiwanese civil society responds to the escalating war threats from China. She serves as the committee member of the Whole-of-Society Defense Resilience Committee under the Presidential Office in Taiwan.
Chris Horton is a Taipei-based journalist and author who for the past 10 years has covered cross-strait politics, domestic politics, the economy, and culture in Taiwan for The New York Times, Bloomberg News, The Atlantic, Nikkei Asia and elsewhere. He has lived in Taiwan since 2015, after working in China and Hong Kong over the preceding 15 years. His new book, Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival, will be published in the US by Macmillan on February 10.