Zero Chou

Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Wikidata image Zero Chou (Template:Zh; 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 into film making because of her attraction to the combination of content and form. She has been heralded as the most talented documentary director in the recent years of Taiwan. She has also received various festival awards around the world for films.

Chou and Hoho Liu (Template:Zh) 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

• Looking For The Forgotten Artists (Template:Zh) 1997, 45 mins
• Artist And His Daughter (Template:Zh) 1997, 23 mins
• Memories Of The Taiwanese Master (Template:Zh) 1997, 47 mins
• Yi Shi Zai Hai Xia Zhong ("Lost in the Strait") (Template:Zh) 1998, 48 mins
• Being Ceased (Template:Zh) 1998, 60 mins
• Mother And Son (Template:Zh) 1998, 65 mins
• Democracy Show (Template:Zh) 1998, 53 mins
• Wanderers' Bay (Template:Zh) 1998, 60 mins
• Floating Islands (Template:Zh) 2000, 288 mins
• Before The Radiation (Template:Zh) 2000, 22 mins
• Headhunting Festival (Template:Zh) 2000, 54 mins
• Zou Zu Zhan Ji (Template:Zh) 2000, 56 mins
• Corners (Template:Zh) 2001, 66 mins
• Poles Extremity (Template:Zh) 2002, 56 mins
• The Kinmenese Tracks (Template:Zh) 2003, 64 mins
• Father In The Blacklist (Template:Zh) 2004, 56 mins

Film

• A Film About The Body (Template:Zh) 1996, 62 mins
• Splendid Float (Template:Zh) 2004, 71 mins
• The Road On The Air (Template:Zh) 2006, 82 mins
• Spider Lilies (Template:Zh) 2007, 97 mins (Teddy Award, 2007)
• Drifting Flowers (Template:Zh) 2008, 97 mins
• Wave Breaker 2009, 86 mins
• Ripples of Desire (Template:Zh) 2012, 110 mins
• The Substitute (Template:Zh) 2017
• We are Gamily (Template:Zh) 2017
• Wrath of Desire (Template:Zh) 2020
• Untold Herstory (Template:Zh) 2022

Television

• The Rise and Fall of Qing Dynasty (滿清十三皇朝) 1987
• Gloomy Salad Days (死神少女) 2010
• Template:Vanchor (因為愛你) 2020

Awards

Corners

• Winner of the 2002 Taipei Film Festival for Best Documentary

Poles Extremity

• Winner of the 2003 Marseille Festival of Documentary Film for Best Documentary

Splendid Float

• Winner of the 2004 Golden Horse Award for Best Make Up and Costume Design
• Winner of the 2004 Golden Horse Award for Best Original Film Song
• Winner of the 2004 Golden Horse Award for Best Taiwanese Film Of The Year
• Winner of the 1st CJ Asia Independent Film Festival for Audience Award

Spider Lilies

• Winner of the 2007 Teddy Award for Best Gay/Lesbian Feature Film at the Berlin Film Festival

See also

• List of female film and television directors
• List of LGBT films directed by women
• List of lesbian filmmakers