Shih-Ting Hung
As a Student Academy Awards [1] winner, Shih-Ting Hung [2] is known as a film director with her distinguishable surreal visual styles.
Background
Born and raised on a fisherman’s island Pescadores, Taiwan, started painting at the age of four, Hung left hometown to pursue her fine art study at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei and soon followed her MFA from the prestigious School of Cinema [3], University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. Her first film “VIOLA : the Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant [4]” grabbed her a Student Academy Awards and the cover of the Academy Report, swiping more than 10 awards and 20 nominations around 100 festivals globally up to date : the painterly, emotional coming-of-age quality of storytelling also attracts art museums ( Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum YouTube Play [5]/, Singapore Art Museum & Taipei MOCA) to showcase her works.
Hung continues working globally as a director and joined Ridley Scott Associates (RSA Films Asia [6]) in 2009. Her commercial works includes music video for Grammy nominee Katie Herzig's first single "Free My Mind" in her 2011 album "The Waking Sleep", "Imitation [7]" for Mêlée (band)'s [8] 2nd single in album "Devils and Angels", Warner Bros. Records[9], European PSP commercials (Harry Potter[10] and Color Range) with Sony PlayStation [11], and several others.
Filmography
Films
- VIOLA:The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant [12] (2008) (director)
Museum Exhibitions
- Official selection for YouTube Play [13](2010), A collaboration between Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum &Youtube to showcase 125 excellent video works selected from more than 23,000 submissions from 91 countries.
- Singapore Art Museum (2010) : VIOLA:The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant [14] (2008) (video installation)
- Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei [MOCA TAIPEI] (2009) : VIOLA:The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant [15] (2008) (video installation)
Film Festivals
- 15th Pusan International Film Festival(부산국제영화제 [16])/ Oct 07-15 /2010 / South Korea
- Ann Arbor Film Festival [17] / March 29 / 2009 / Michigan / USA
- St. Louise Film Festival [18] / Nov 13 / 2008 / USA
- Taipei Film Festival [19]/ July 15 / 2010 / Taiwan
- Sedona Film Festival [20]/ Feb 28 / 2010 / USA
- Golden Harvest Award [21]/ March 21 / 2010 / Taiwan
- 11th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF)[22] / Feb 03 / 2010 / India
- 5th Singapore Short Film Festival [23]/ Sep 21 / 2009 / Singapore
- Brooklyn International Film Festival [24] / June 14 / 2009 / New York / USA
- Atlanta Film Festival [25] / April 16 / 2009 / Georgia / USA
- Sonoma International Film Festival [26] / April 1 / 2009 / USA
- Ashland Film Festival [27] / April 6 / 2009 / Oregon / USA
- Kustendorf Film Festival [28] / Jan 08 / 2009 / Serbia
- San Diego Film Festival [29] / Sep 27 / 2008 / USA
- Cambridge Film Festival [30] / Sep 18-28 / 2008 / UK
- Strasbourg International Film Festival [31] / FRANCE / Aug 27 / 2010
- Expresion En Corto IFF Mexico [32] / July 18 / 2008 / Mexico
- Antelope Valley Independent Film Festival [33] / May / 2008 / USA
- Student Academy Awards [34]/ June 7 / 2008 / USA
Music Videos
Commercials
Other credits
Recognition
- 2008, Student Academy Awards - "Gold Medal in Alternative category"
- 2009, Kustendorf Film Festivall - "Bronze Award"
- 2009, 5th Singapore short Film Festival - "Voice Award"
External links
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Hung, Shih-Ting |
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May 25, 1980 |
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Pescadores, Taiwan |
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