Zero Chou

Zero Chou
Born (1969-07-24) 24 July 1969 (age 57)
Keelung, Taiwan
AwardsTeddy Award for Best Feature Film
2007 Spider Lilies
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese周美玲
Transcriptions

Zero Chou (Chinese: 周美玲; pinyin: Zhōu Měilíng; born 24 July 1969) is a Taiwanese director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Chou was born in Keelung, Taiwan in 1969. She earned a B.A. in Philosophy from National Chengchi University in 1992. She worked as a journalist before becoming an indie film director.

She entered film making because of her attraction to the content and art form. She has been considered as one of the most talented documentary director in recent years inTaiwan. She received a Teddy Award for Best Feature Film in 2007 for the movie Spider Lillies.

Chou and Hoho Liu (Chinese: 劉芸后) are an openly lesbian couple. Chou "is one of the few openly lesbian filmmakers in the world, and the only one in Taiwan," according to AfterEllen. She is currently filming a six-film series called the Six Asian Cities Rainbow Project (亞洲六城彩虹計劃). She is trying to finish as quickly as possible and worries she will go missing while filming, since many of the locations have rules against films presenting LGBT content.

Works

Documentary

Film

Television

Awards

Corners

Poles Extremity

Splendid Float

Spider Lilies

See also

References

  1. ↑ Chiu, Kuei-fen; Zhang, Yingjin (2014-11-21). New Chinese-Language Documentaries: Ethics, Subject and Place. Routledge. ISBN 9781317936947.
  2. ↑ Eisner, Ken (18 November 2003), "Si Jiaoluo (Docu -- Taiwan)", Variety, retrieved 9 October 2007
  3. ↑ "Interview With Zero Chou - AfterEllen". AfterEllen. 2008-05-04. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
  4. ↑ Lens, The News (2017-08-06). "Interview: Director Zero Chou on making LGBT films in the Greater China region". Cinema Escapist. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  5. ↑ "2020 因為愛你 on Instagram". Retrieved 2020-06-12.

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