Scene from the film Memoir of Miss Kuan, A Celebrated Sex Worker
Scene from the film Memoir of Miss Kuan, A Celebrated Sex Worker
Scene from the film Memoir of Miss Kuan, A Celebrated Sex Worker
Scene from the film Memoir of Miss Kuan, A Celebrated Sex Worker
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Memoir of Miss Kuan, A Celebrated Sex Worker

Direction
Year 
2006
Country
  • Taiwan
Duration
16min 

In 1997, the Taipei City Council abolished the Licensed Prostitute System without any compensatory measures. For over 2 years, Miss Guan was one of the leading figures that organized over 500 protests to defend the prostitutes’ work rights. Yet under huge pressure from their mounting debts and governmental crackdown, she finally threw herself into the ocean...

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  • Original title
    Memoir of Miss Kuan, A Celebrated Sex Worker
  • Direction
  • Duration
    16 min (16-30 min.)
  • Year
    2006
  • Country
    • Taiwan
  • Colour
    • Colour
  • Festivals
    • The United Nations of Sex Workers Film Festival (2006)
    • San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Video Festival (2007)
    • Taiwan Iron Horse Film Festival (2007)
    • Sex Workers Film Festival in the Congo (2008)

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