Xiao Yaquan

Xiao Yaquan

Xiao Yaquan, born on December 20, 1967 in Taipei, Taiwan Province, is a Taiwan director and screenwriter. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of China Academy of fine arts.

In 1988, he directed his first short film style. In 1990, he directed the experimental short film five scenes. In 1991, he directed the short film "two and one sixth", which won the best experimental Video Award of the 14th golden harvest award. In 1995, he directed the experimental short film "the bar is there", which won the best experimental Video Award of the 19th golden ear award. In 1998, he was the deputy director of the plot film "flowers on the sea". In 2000, he directed his first film, life with chase, which won the best film dragon and tiger award at the 20th Vancouver International Film Festival. He won the director Rookie Award at the Taipei Film Festival for his film. In 2004, his music video you listen quietly won the best music video director award of the 15th Taiwan Golden Melody Award. In 2010, he directed the love movie "the 36th story", which won the audience vote award of Taipei Film Festival. In 2018, he directed the plot film "Van Burt".

Acting experience

In 1988, Xiao Yaquan entered the Fine Arts Department of China Academy of fine arts, and directed his first short film "style" in the same year. In 1989, he directed the short film metronome; in the same year, he directed the short film advertisement.

In 1990, he directed the experimental short film "five scenes", which describes what happens in a room. Five friends plan a play together, and the camera plays their respective views. He won the best plastic art award of the 2nd golden belt award.

In 1991, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of China Academy of fine arts. In the same year, he directed the short film "two and one sixth", which won the best experimental Video Award of the 14th golden harvest award. In 1993, he joined the film creation training class of "film year".

In 1994, he created the short film "the countdown contract", which was selected into the International Film Festival of Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award and the 18th golden harvest award. In 1995, he directed the experimental short film "the bar is there", which was the observation work of the 1st Pusan International Film Festival and won the best experimental Video Award of the 19th golden harvest award.

In 1998, he was the deputy director of the plot film "flowers on the sea", which was directed by Hou Xiaoxian. In 2000, he directed his first film, life with chase, which was co starred by Li Junjie, fan Xiaofan and Wang Peiji. He won the 88 year NT $5 million National Film grant of the information bureau and the best film dragon and tiger award of the 20th Vancouver International Film Festival. With this film, he won the director Rookie Award of the Taipei Film Festival commercial recommendation evaluation award.

In 2004, his music video you listen quietly won the best music video director award of the 15th Taiwan Golden Melody Award. In 2010, he directed the film "the 36th story", a love literature and art film co starred by GUI lunmei, Lin Chenxi and Zhang Han. The film tells the wonderful story of two girls who run a coffee shop and their customers, and won the audience vote award of Taipei Film Festival.

In 2011, he co directed a series of short films "10 + 10" with 20 directors, including Wang Xiaodi and Wang Tong, with the theme of "unique to Taiwan". In 2018, he directed the plot film "fan Baode" co starring Huang Zhongkun, Zhuang Kaixun and Fu mengbai.

Main works

Screenwriter's works

Director's work

Assistant director

Award winning record

Character evaluation

In the short film "countdown contract", Xiao Yaquan's ability of making plays and narrating with lens is very strong, and his technical performance is also very mature. On the whole, he is fluent and balanced. Through his simple movie grammar, he successfully brings the audience into the waiting emotion of the characters. In the movie chasing life, Xiao Ya breaks through the serious face of traditional Taiwan movies and narrates in a fresh and humorous way. Compared with Bai Jingrui's comic technique, Xiao Ya is more able to show the new face of Taiwan's young people's nonsense. This effort to break through the previous attempts is quite gratifying. In addition, he has profound basic skills, delicate scene scheduling, strong imagination, keen observation in describing youth, and strong literariness. We can see that he tries his best to get out of his own unique style of creative desire and challenge courage (NIE Yangxian, winner of the golden harvest award, Wang Weici, winner of the golden harvest award, and comprehensive review of film art).