Taipei Film Awards
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KAO Pin-chuan
Kao graduated from Department of Filmmaking at Taipei National University of the Arts. As a writer and director, he has been nominated and awarded multiple times at Tokyo International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Taipei Film Festival, and Golden Bell Awards. He recently directed two episodes in the TV series At the Moment. With The Gangs, the Oscars, and the Walking Dead, he was nominated for Best Scriptwriting at Busan, and won Best Scriptwriting at Taipei Film Awards. He also received Best Series Director at Golden Bell Awards with Yong-Jiu Grocery Store.
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Stefano CENTINI
Stefano CENTINI is an Italian-Taiwanese producer. After graduating from CSC Milan as creative producer and from the Taiwan National University of Arts with a master ’s degree in Broadcasting, he has worked on documentaries and feature films in Taiwan, where he founded his company, Volos Films, for more than ten years. His works include documentaries Absent without Leave, A Holy Family, Divine Factory, and feature films Far Away Eyes, The Settlers, Tomorrow is a Long Time, In My Mother’s Skin.
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FU Tien-yu
FU Tien-yu’s first feature, Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, was selected for many film festivals in Taiwan and abroad. The Happy Life of Debbie she directed won Best Television Film at the Golden Bell Awards and her other features include Cities in Love and My Egg Boy. In 2023, she made Day Off, which won Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor at the Taipei Film Awards and Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Film Song at the Golden Horse Awards in the same year.
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TSENG Ying-ting
In 2022, TSENG’s film The Abandoned was selected to Harbour section at International Film Festival Rotterdam. It was also nominated for five awards at Golden Horse Awards including Best New Director, and twelve awards at Taipei Film Awards including Best Director. His television film The Last Verse was selected into New Currents section at Busan International Film Festival, and awarded four times at Golden Bell Awards. He won Best Series Director at Golden Bell Awards with Yong-Jiu Grocery Store. His short film Tea Land won Best Television Film Scriptwriting at Golden Bell Awards. In 2016, his television film The Cat in the Closet won three times at Golden Bell Awards.
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Cheryl YANG
Yang started the acting career in 2001, with many TV series in her portfolio. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at Golden Bell Awards with The Hospital. Her performance in A Touch of Green in 2016 won Best Actress in a Leading Role at Asian Television Awards, and a Best Leading Actress nominated at Golden Bell Awards. Subsequently, she was nominated multiple times at Golden Bell Awards with Rock Records In Love 2017, The Mirror 2020, and Light the Night 2022.
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WANG Wan-jo
WANG graduated from National Tsing Hua University in Chinese Literature, and University of Exeter in theater practice. She produced Port of Mists, and directed/edited The Coming of Tulku. Her documentary feature debut in 2012, River Without Banks, focused on poet Lou Fu. In 2017, she delivered A Foley Artist, a documentary that explored sounds in Mandarin-speaking films. In 2020, she completed Chen Uen about the late comic artist. It was nominated for Best Documentary in Golden Horse Awards.
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LEE Chia-hua
LEE owns a PhD degree in creative art and theory at Tainan National University of the Arts, and teaches at National Chengchi University. His documentaries have received recognitions at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Taipei Film Awards, and Taiwan International Documentary Festival. In 2020, he was nominated for Golden Horse Awards and Taipei Film Awards with Me and My Condemned Son.
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CHANG Ming-yu
CHANG graduated from Department of Motion Picture at Taiwan National University of the Arts. Over the years, he has participated in multiple series and reality shows. His works mostly focus on social incidents, and document figures behind the scenes. His detailed observations reveal unique and precious aspects. He was nominated for Best Documentary at Taipei Film Awards twice with Haven't Stopped Lamenting 2023 and The Reason Why I'm Home 2020.
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HUANG Hsiu-yi
Documentary filmmaker and producer HUANG graduated from Graduate Institute of Documentary & Film Archiving at Tainan National University of the Arts. Her works focus on environmental Dialog in Spring and female Grandma’s Ring issues. She also participated in fictional shorts and experimental films. Her latest work, Diamond Marine World, portrays how Taiwanese people encounter life and cultural frictions in Southeast Asia. The film received Grand Prize and Best Documentary in Taipei Film Awards.
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Elvis LU A-liang
LU graduated from Graduate Institute of Filmmaking at Taiwan National University of the Arts. Passionate about reality in films, he is now a freelance filmmaker. Previous works are mostly about personal struggles and expressions. In recent years, he focuses on topics related to faith and gender. His film, A Holy Family, received Grand Prize, Best Documentary, Best Editing, and Audience’s Choice at Taipei Film Awards. It’s also nominated for Best Documentary and Best Editing at Golden Horse Awards.
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CHEN Pao-ying
CHEN graduated from Department of Motion Picture at Taiwan National University of the Arts, and now operates Gray Wolf Production. She has participated in short films, film festivals, TV series, feature films, and documentaries. CHEN was a producer in series and films, such as Left-Handed Girl, Hunter Brothers, Everyphone Everywhere, About Youth, S-Girl, Waiting for My Cup of Tea, Increasing Echo, and Exit.
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Annie CHEN
CHEN started her career as a model in 2007, and began to participated in TV series the next year. With her first film White Lies, Black Lies in 2016, she was nominated for Best New Actor at Golden Horse Awards. In 2017, she was nominated for Best Leading Actress in Miniseries/TV Film at Golden Bell Awards with The Long Goodbye. In 2021, her performance in Terrorizers was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at Golden Horse Awards. In 2022, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at Golden Bell Awards with Tears on Fire.
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LIAO Ming-yi
LIAO participated in various films, including At Cafe 6, Forever Love, and You Are the Apple of My Eye. In 2019, he made a short film PARKING with iPhone, and won Grand Prize at FiLMiCFest. His feature film in 2020, I WeirDo, was a blockbuster, and nominated for multiple categories at Taipei Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards.
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WANG Wei-xiu
WANG is a producer at Bigcat Studio, with an MA degree from Department of Multimedia Animation Arts at Taiwan National University of the Arts. He has participated in multiple original animation projects in Taiwan. Examples include Brave Animated Series the first Netflix original animated series from Taiwan, Diego and Pea, The Brainy Giant, First Launch, and Our Moon.
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LIU Wan-ling
LIU graduated from Graduate Institute of Documentary & Film Archiving at Tainan National University of the Arts. She creates both animation and illustration. Her film, The Egret River, was the Best Documentary winner at Taipei Film Awards in 2023. It was also nominated for Best Animated Short at Golden Horse Awards.
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TSAI Shiu-cheng
Animation filmmaker TSAI has been enthusiastic about drawing, comics, cartoon, animation, film, and literature since childhood. After graduating from Graduate Institute of Documentary & Film Archiving at Tainan National University of the Arts, he continued to create in his personal studio. His animated short Time of Cherry Blossoms won a major prize in Tokyo in 2013, and was screened in cinemas across Japan. He remains committed to original works. He adapted a local novel into A Night with Moosina, and won Best Animation at Golden Harvest Awards. It was also nominated for Golden Horse Awards and Taipei Film Awards.
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WANG Ken-yu
In the 1980s, WANG made a documentary that won Golden Harvest Awards. She also participated in major films in Taiwan New Wave, such as Dust in the Wind, Daughter of the Nile, and A Brighter Summer Day. In the 1990s, WANG produced music scores for Dust of Angels and Treasure Island, and worked on Tonight Nobody Goes Home and Grandma and Her Ghosts. Since 2000, she was a programmer at Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan International Children's Film Festival, and Taiwan International Documentary Festival. Besides being an executive producer for multiple projects, Wang also made Lan Ling 40th: Experimental Actors Studio. She is also involved with various film education initiatives and programs, and producing children’s show A Seasonal Lab.
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WU Chin-jung
WU graduated from The Graduate Institute of Theatre Performance and Playwriting at Taipei National University of the Arts. Her award-winning works have appeared on TV and on stage. She won Best Scriptwriting at Taipei Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards with Marry My Dead Body.
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Aileen LI
LI is a film producer with law and communication degrees from Northwestern University in the United States. Her recent works include film Detention adapted from a bestselling game, and Nowhere Man the first Netflix original Mandarin-speaking series. She produced Eye of the Storm that won five titles at Taipei Film Awards, and secured eight nominations at Golden Horse Awards.
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Rockid LEE
LEE is an experienced music composer and sound designer in Taiwan. He is known for creating artworks with inaudible frequencies. His works span from films Incantation, The Tag-Along, Minxiong Haunted House to TV series Wake Up, The Victims' Game.
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LIN Chun-yang
LIN is a Taiwanese director and cinematographer. His works in early years focused more on romance. In 2019, he directed The World Between Us that touched upon the controversial schizophrenia and mental health topics. It received six awards at Golden Bell Awards, including Best Series and Best Director. In 2021, the period drama Gold Leaf captured largest contexts and the multilingual nature in the society. In 2023, his film Eye of the Storm won Best Director at Taipei Film Awards. In the same year, his award-winning series Wave Makers focused on political aides and copywriters behind a presidential campaign, and their compromises and choices along the way.
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YAO Yi-ti
YAO entered public attention with her military pilot role in the film Dream Flight. In 2017, she played the main character in Mr Long by Japanese filmmaker Sabu. It was in the competition at Berlinale. She co-starred in the film High Flash, selected as the closing film at 2018 Taipei Film Festival. In 2019, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at Golden Horse Awards with The Gangs, the Oscars, and the Walking Dead, and won a Taipei Film Award with the same title. In 2022, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at Golden Bell Awards with More Than Blue: The Series. Yao’s latest work in 2024, The Accidental Influencer, received overwhelming viewer responses.
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HSU Wei-ning
HSU started as a model with enthusiasm on performance. She has appeared in films and series, such as Imperfect Us, Shards of Her, The Victims' Game, It Started With A Kiss, Love You/While We Were Drunk, The Way We Were, and Wake Up. She won Best Supporting Actress at Golden Bell Awards with The Way We Were. She was nominated for Best New Actor at Golden Horse Awards with Design 7 Love. With The Tag-Along, White Lies, Black Lies, and End of A Century: Miea's Story, she received Best Leading Actress at Taipei Film Awards. In 2021, Hsu starred in the blockbuster film Man in Love, and she was nominated for Best Leading Actress at Taipei Film Awards. In 2022, she participated in an international production The Darker the Lake with German co-star Veronica Ferres.
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Otto CHEN
CHEN graduated from Graduate Institute of Radio, Television, and Film at Shih Hsin University. With over ten years in production design, he is known for constructing realistic scenes that visualize what filmmakers have in mind. In 2018, Chen was the production manager for Xiao Mei, selected into Panorama section at Berlinale, and nominated for Best First Feature Award. In 2022, he won Best Production Design at Taipei Film Awards with the bestselling film Incantation, and secured a nomination at Golden Horse Awards. He was also the production designer for Japanese series Tourist filmed in Taiwan. Throughout his career, he has participated in nearly 700 advertising films and music videos.
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FU Tien-yu
FU Tien-yu’s first feature, Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, was selected for many film festivals in Taiwan and abroad. The Happy Life of Debbie she directed won Best Television Film at the Golden Bell Awards and her other features include Cities in Love and My Egg Boy. In 2023, she made Day Off, which won Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor at the Taipei Film Awards and Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Film Song at the Golden Horse Awards in the same year.
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TSAI Shiu-cheng
Animation filmmaker TSAI has been enthusiastic about drawing, comics, cartoon, animation, film, and literature since childhood. After graduating from Graduate Institute of Documentary & Film Archiving at Tainan National University of the Arts, he continued to create in his personal studio. His animated short Time of Cherry Blossoms won a major prize in Tokyo in 2013, and was screened in cinemas across Japan. He remains committed to original works. He adapted a local novel into A Night with Moosina, and won Best Animation at Golden Harvest Awards. It was also nominated for Golden Horse Awards and Taipei Film Awards.
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Elvis LU A-liang
LU graduated from Graduate Institute of Filmmaking at Taiwan National University of the Arts. Passionate about reality in films, he is now a freelance filmmaker. Previous works are mostly about personal struggles and expressions. In recent years, he focuses on topics related to faith and gender. His film, A Holy Family, received Grand Prize, Best Documentary, Best Editing, and Audience’s Choice at Taipei Film Awards. It’s also nominated for Best Documentary and Best Editing at Golden Horse Awards.
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Fruit CHAN(Jury President)
Fruit CHAN is a Hong Kong film director and independent film producer. His 1997 film Made in Hong Kong won the Special Jury Prize at Locarno, as well as Best Director at both the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards.
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Wenders LI
Wenders LI is a senior film editor active in projects across Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. He has long been working with renowned filmmakers, including Peter CHAN and Edmund PANG. LI has been nominated multiple times at Golden Horse Awards, Taipei Film Awards, and others for his contributions in Treat or Trick, The Scoundrels, The Warlords, and Perhaps Love. Key works in his portfolio include Love In A Puff franchise, Perhaps Love, Treat or Trick, Our Times, Blood of the Blue, A Choo, The Scoundrels, Leaving Virginia, Your Love Song, Million-follower Detective, and Underground.



















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Best FeatureOLD FOX
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Best DocumentaryFrom Island to Island
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Best AnimationPIGSY
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Best Short FilmReclaim My Summer
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Best DirectorOLD FOX
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Best ScreenplayOLD FOX
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Best ActorThe Pig, The Snake and The Pigeon
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Best ActressTrouble Girl
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Best Supporting ActorThe Pig, The Snake and The Pigeon
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Best Supporting ActressTrouble Girl
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Best New TalentBIG
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Best Art DesignFish Memories
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Best Makeup & Costume DesignOLD FOX
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Best Visual EffectsBIG
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Best Sound DesignSuffocating Love
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Best MusicSalli
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Best CinematographyOLD FOX
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Best EditingXiXi
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Award for Outstanding Artistic ContributionAnthropocene/Stop Motion Animation