Huang Sheng-chun
Directing
Biography
Sheng-Chun Huang, a native filmmaker based in Taipei, is currently studying at the Graduate Institute of Documentary and Film Archiving of the TNNUA. As a creator who wanders between fiction and reality, he has recently focused on Taiwan's history and human rights. Producing one to two short films annually, he aspires to become a visual storyteller skilled in blending narrative, documentary, and experimental forms of storytelling. His films have received recognition from festivals at home and abroad. The documentary ""An invisible red line"" won Best Student Documentary at the 46th Golden Harvest Awards. The co-directed documentary ”Relife“ won third place at the 2022 New Taipei City Documentary Awards and Best Student Documentary at the 45th Golden Harvest Awards. The co-directed short film ""Afterlife"", combining animation and live-action, was selected for the 2023 FID Campus at the Marseille International Film Festival in France.
Known For
Home Sweet Home is a mini series about the underprivileged children in Taiwan, who are deprived of basic family functions, with ill, deceased, abusive, imprisoned or financially unsustainable parents. The series is a co-production of several charitable organizations and New Story Movement, in hope to raise awareness through storytelling and help both the children and caregiver receive the social support and resources needed.
Home Sweet Home
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Deadwood Blossom
Her First Joss Stick is a narrative short film that combines action-inflected comedy with an atypical female coming-of-age story rooted in local ritual culture. Set on Lunar New Year’s Eve, the film follows A-Feng, a retired sprinter participating in the fiercely competitive first joss stick ritual at her local temple. Having become a full-time housewife, she channels her long-suppressed desire for speed and competition into the bodily act of sprinting toward the sacred, transforming the ritual into a site of personal assertion.
Her First Joss Stick
In that summer, mom is admjavascript:window.document.synopsis.submit()itted to the hospital again. Ling was at a loss at home with the reappearance of her birth mom as well as the sudden change of jealous attitude from her elder sister Ching. How should they encounter the forth coming death? It turns out that something as natural as breathing needs practice as well.
Breathing Practice
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An Invisible Red Line
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Detox
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Run with the Noise
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Afterlife
As Yong-Ning’s drag persona Valerie begins to shine in Taiwan’s underground Ballroom scene, his budding romance with Wei-En falters. Shaken by a moment of rejection, the two must decide if love can survive the weight of identity.
Midnight Valerie
Over twenty years ago, Yao moved to Taiwan from China through marriage and settled in a single veterans' dormitory called "Da Wo Xin She." Now a widow, her days pass slowly, balancing between caring for the veterans and working odd jobs. Looking back on her relationship with her parents, Yao gradually came to understand what had brought her to this point and made her who she is today. With the dormitory’s impending demolition, Yao’s uncertain journey of displacement is about to begin once again.
Between Farewells and New Beginnings
Through a unique blend of animation, reenactment, and documentary interviews, this hybrid-medium short film seeks to capture the lives of political prisoners at the New Life Correction Centre on Green Island during the 1950s.
Reconstruction of New Life
After voyu toskʉ's father was released from prison that year, he took his family away from Alishan and wandered around Taiwan for a lifetime. It wasn't until sixty years later that the youngest son, voyu toskʉ, decided to move back up to the mountains. voyu never understands why he grew up in the plain while his father was always wandering. They moved from one place to another, never truly settling down. And voyu's life trajectory is similar to his father's, never knowing where his home truly belongs. So, does the warm "home" that everyone talks about really exist?
voyu
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When we were in the boat
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It’s Snowing There
Two boys play poker on a dull afternoon. As one boy inadvertently touches and makes eye contact with the other, it sparks a beautiful, imaginative dance.
Confusion of the Afternoon
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Relife
These days, Cheng-Cheng seems different. He doesn’t play baseball anymore and stays away from the field. It feels like he has something he can’t tell anyone. His mom tries to help but doesn’t know why. The fear and confusion come from one of the adults he trusts the most. One evening, Cheng-Cheng stands by the field, holding his bat, wondering—should he swing, or not?
The Brave Swing
Cram school, concerts, capsule machines, arcades—Ning and Rou, the both of us, now and the future, a decade from now. The sound of fireworks—just like fireworks.
Like Fireworks
A man about to become a father sells his old house. A woman learning to be a mother buys a new one. In the empty house where an agave grows by the window, their pasts intersect.
Agave
In those boring little games, from guessing names to this-or-that, from competing to see who laughs first to the things we say to each other, many moments reveal our familiarity and deep bond. But what he didn't expect was that, at the end of the games, there would be no next time.