Lin Xiaoqian

Lin Xiaoqian

Gavin Lin was born on May 4, 1980 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan Province. He is a director, screenwriter and producer in Taiwan, China. He graduated from the Department of foreign languages, Taiwan Jiaotong University, the Institute of Applied Media Art, Taiwan University of Arts, and the Institute of communication studies, Pittsburgh State University.

In 2004, he directed his first short film "freedom Avenue", which won the first prize of golden spike award. In 2010, he directed his first film the little prince on the corner. In 2011, he wrote and directed his own love movie farewell to love, which won the best Mini Drama Award of the 46th Taiwan TV Golden Bell Award. He won the best screenplay award of the 46th Taiwan TV Golden Bell Award for his film. In 2013, he directed the love film "back to the place where love began". In 2016, he directed the romantic comedy "five star dried fish girl". In 2018, he directed the love movie "more sad than sad story".

Acting experience

In 2004, Lin Xiaoqian made his first short film "freedom Avenue" in order to complete his graduation work from the Institute of communication studies of Pittsburgh State University in the United States. The film tells the moving story of a daughter with mental retardation wandering with her mother. He was shortlisted in the male director and female perspective unit of the 12th Taiwan women's Film Festival and won the first prize of golden spike award at Kawasaki Digital International Film Festival. In 2010, he directed his first film "little prince on the street corner", which was co starred by Yang Youning and Guo biting. In 2011, he co directed the TV series "Hello, thank you" with LV anxien. In the same year, he wrote and directed the love movie "farewell to love" co starred by Zeng Peiyu and Zhou Feiyin, which won the best Mini Drama Award of the 46th Taiwan TV Golden Bell Award. He won the best screenplay award of the 46th Taiwan TV Golden Bell Award for this film. In 2013, he directed the contemporary urban drama "Qian Duoduo lian ai Ji" co starred by Gao Yixiang, Yin hang and Wang Yangming; in the same year, he directed the love literature film "back to the place where love began" co starred by Zhou Yumin and Liu Shishi. In 2016, he directed the romantic comedy "five star dried fish girl", CO starring Ke Jiayi and Zhou Houan. In 2018, he directed the love movie "a story more sad than sadness" co starred by Chen Yihan and Liu Yihao. in October 2019, the road love movie "travel with your wife" directed by the director was launched in Canada.

Main works

Directing works

Screenwriter's works

Supervised production

Take part in the film

Award winning record

Character evaluation

Taking a comprehensive view of Lin Xiaoqian's films, pure love of film and healing system become the key words of his image style. In other words, pure love is the director's love belief, he just truly expressed it. The long and distant image style, delicate and precise characters' emotions and open ending presented in his works are just like the prose poetry of "Jianjia, White Dew is frost; the so-called Yi Ren, on the side of the water" for the movie audience who are used to the fierce drama conflicts. With a faint sense of alienation, it seems that it is far away, but it is very consistent with the traditional beauty of the Oriental people Learning ideal and life pursuit. In a series of his films, he is always full of the creative ideal of "redeeming the cruelty of the impermanent world with love", showing his aesthetic pursuit of introspection, questioning the soul, and the harmony between man and nature (review of Journal of Guizhou University). Apart from the theme, Lin Xiaoqian's understanding and expression of the narrative subject and the film signifier are different from those of the previous Chinese films. There is always a link in his long film narrative that is repeatedly used, that is, the letter, which is misplaced in the long process. These plots are generally letters from the protagonist to the protagonist of the opposite sex. The fate of these letters is always confused and strange. It is difficult to analyze the relationship between the characters in his films in the way of action element in traditional narratology, because the narration represented by "realistic" events serves the "realistic" logic of events. At the same time, his greatest characteristic is to try new things bravely, which is not a kind of imitative phenomenon collage, but a deeper adventure. From the movie "little prince from the corner" to "farewell to love", he devoted himself to a calm and cruel display of the subject's failure fate (others are hell). This performance reached a peak in the movie "farewell to love", and in the movie "return to the place where love began", he showed a reaction to the subject's inability, trying a kind of Sisyphus' reflection A breakthrough in fate (review of Journal of Guizhou University).