Ming-Chuan Huang
Born in Chiayi in 1955, Huang Ming-Chuan lives now in Taipei. Graduating from the Department of Law of National Taiwan University, he left Taiwan to study Lithographic Printmaking in Art Students League of New York, later on majored in Fine arts and Photography at Art Center College of Design in L.A. His feature film THE MAN FROM ISLAND WEST claimed an Excellent Cinematography Award at Hawaii international Film Festival and a Silver Screen Award at Singapore international Film Festival in 1990. Thereafter in 1998 his FLAT TYRE was awarded Best film of None commercial category at Taipei Film Festival and Jury Award at the Golden Horse Festival, Taiwan. As a documentary director, Huang made numerous documentaries on art subjects, including biographical portraits of 4 veteran novelists, documentaries on local festivals, a national archive video project on100 Taiwanese poets’ oral history and poem reading, and Avant-Garde Liberation on 14 contemporary young conceptual artists, which won the first Taishin Arts Award’s Visual Arts Prize in 2003. Huang has been also the board member of the National Culture and Arts Foundation (2000-03), National Film Archive Foundation (2002-05), Public Television System Foundation (2005) and CTV station, Taiwan (2008-present). He was invited as chairman of international jury of Taishin Arts Award’s Visual Arts Prize (2005), and feature length competition juror of Taiwan International Documentary Festival (2008). Huang was also elected as Chairman of the National Culture and Arts Foundation in early 2008.
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- Known For : Directing
- Birthday : 1955-01-01
- Place of Birth : Chiayi, Taiwan
