Ming-Chuan Huang

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1955-01-01 (69 years old)

Place of Birth Chiayi, Taiwan

Also Known As 黃明川, Mingchuan Huang, Huang Ming-Chuan, Huang Mingchuan

Ming-Chuan Huang

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

2021
Deepest Uprising

as Director

2019
2017
Face the Earth

as Director

2016
Sound of Sakura

as Director

2014
2004
1999
Flat Tyre

as Director

1999
The Wind Within

as Director

1994
Lai He

as Director

1993
Bodo

as Director

1990

Editor

1999
The Wind Within

as Editor

1999
Flat Tyre

as Editor

1993
Bodo

as Editor

Producer

2016
Sound of Sakura

as Producer

2014
2000
Bundled

as Production Director

Writer

1999
The Wind Within

as Screenplay

1999
Flat Tyre

as Writer

Crew

1993
Bodo

as Cinematography

1990
The Man from Island West

as Cinematography

Actor

1997
Yang Kui

as director