Hou Jiran

Hou Jiran

Hou Jiran, a film director and writer in Taiwan, also works in photography. Graduated from the Institute of radio and television of Chengchi University. Works are often associated with the memory of the times, image style is strong and poetic. In order to distinguish it from the nickname "Hou Dao" of Taiwan director Hou Xiaoxian, he was nicknamed Xiao Hou Dao.

Main works

Film and television works

In 2003, the first personal video work "Stardust 15749001" won millions of awards at the Taipei Film Festival. In 2004, he cooperated with Hou Hsiao Hsien's Sanshi multimedia company to shoot the "Environmental Theater" film: "city life" and "city imagination" of Taipei exploration Museum of Taipei municipal government. Combining plot, record and computer animation, it is the first ten screen surround multimedia theater film in Taiwan. In 2005, he completed the short film "my 747", which recorded the scrapped motorcycles. He was selected into 22 international film festivals including Busan Film Festival, and won the Asian new force award in Hong Kong ifva Independent Short Film Competition and the sidewalk cinema Jury Award in Austria. In 2005, the documentary "Taiwan black film", which redefined Taiwan's "social realistic film" in the late 1970s, was selected as the best documentary feature film in the Golden Horse Award at international film festivals such as Tokyo, Busan and Rotterdam. In 2007, he won the film tutorial grant from the information bureau to shoot the short story "shopping cart boy". Selected in Taipei Film Festival and Jinma International Film Festival. In 2007, he collaborated with China Telecom foundation to shoot a series of short films "point Taiwan" focusing on cultural and creative industries and communities in Taiwan. In 2007, we cooperated with rolling stone culture company to produce a series of public TV documentaries on the history of Taiwan's pop music industry. In 2008, he participated in Ang Lee and gang Lee's "push hand project" and will direct the three-stage film Shangshang. Shangshang was selected as the shortlisted company of HAF in 2008. In 2010, director's work "one day" was shortlisted in the young directors forum unit of Berlin Film Festival. The film is supervised by Hou Xiaoxian, starred by Xie Xinying, the best supporting actress of the Golden Horse Award, and Zhang Shuhao, the winner of the Golden Bell Award, with Liao Qingsong as the editing director..

literary works

In 2006, he won the first prize of the first Taipei Travel Literature Award for his prose "37 road to childhood".

external link

Personal blog: memos of students

Award winning record