Shih Yu-lun
Directing
Biography
Shih Yu-Lun graduated from Syracuse University, U.S.A. with an MFA degree in filmmaking. After graduating, he participated in the production of Life of Pi (2012) and Bridge Over Troubled Water (2013), a feature documentary made by Director Yang Li-chou. From 2014, he collaborated with the Taiwan Innocence Project to produce documentaries about the miscarriage of justice. He attempts to visualize the stories of the wrongfully convicted via producing documentaries about innocent clients of the Taiwan Innocence Project. The first work of the series, The Man Who Cannot Be Excluded won Golden Harvest Awards for Best Documentary. The Sound of Silence won MOD Microfilm & Golden Short Film Contest for Grand Prize.
Known For
On a winter night in 2002, a couple in their early 20s is breaking up atop a bridge, when the woman falls down. Is it a suicide or accidental death? The man asks a friend to call an ambulance, but the woman dies. The man and his friend are imprisoned for murder when an eyewitness reverses her original statement and says that she saw the two men throwing the woman from the bridge. After more than a decade, director Shih Yu-Lun collaborates with the ‘Taiwan Innocence Project’, a private organization that helps innocent people who have been unjustly convicted, to re-investigate the case.
Crossing's End
In the cramped confines of her apartment, a woman cares for her disturbed, elderly mother, feeding her through a bottle and keeping her from crawling out of the window by tying her to a table. Through the woman's daily rituals come traces of a deep, troubled history which binds her to her mother and which might ultimately force her to make a fateful decision.
Cord
In 2009, a DNA test report that "does not rule out the possibility" turned Chen Longqi from a witness to a defendant. After he was found guilty, he began to flee, fearing that he would not be able to clear his grievances in prison. Fortunately, four years and thirty days later, he met a judge who was willing to investigate again, and finally changed the verdict to not guilty. But from guilty to innocent, what he saw in front of him was the ruin of his career, heavy debts, the mental panic of long-term escape and hiding, and many people who wanted his help and were also suffering from unjust cases...
The Man Who Cannot Be Excluded
In 2016, Cheng Hsing-tse walked out of the prison as the first death-row inmate pending a retrial requested by prosecutors. Cheng was acquitted at last. Yet he cannot forget the kid he met on the day he was led in shackles by the police to pay respects to the kid's father at the mortuary. The kid must have grown up by now. Cheng wants to meet him again to forget about each other.