FILMMAKER IN FOCUS ｜焦點影人 

Born in 1967, Hsiao Ya-Chuan began making short films at 21 years old, before entering the advertising industry. In the late eighties, he received a request to shoot a music video from fellow filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien (The Assassin, Millennium Mambo), leading to a life-long friendship. Hsiao served as Hou’s assistant director for Flowers of Shanghai (1998) and later directed his first feature, Mirror Image (2000). Mirror Image enjoyed a successful international festival tour, featuring at Cannes, Torino, Vancouver International Film Festival, and more.

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1967年出生於台灣彰化，1988年開始拍攝短片，隨後投身廣告圈並大放異彩。1998年擔綱侯孝賢導演《海上花》的副導，正式踏入電影圈，2000年首作《命帶追逐》文學性的敘事手法，以及對台灣的生動捕捉，入選坎城影展導演雙週，使之蜚聲國際。2010年《第三十六個故事》以台北咖啡館為背景，探討都會人士的心裡價值，獲得觀眾青睞，進而掀起一股咖啡熱潮。2018年《范保德》細膩刻畫三代父子關係，再度受到國內外影壇肯定。