Angie Chen

Angie Chen has been making films since 1979. She was born in Shanghai, brought up in Hong Kong and Taiwan, received her MFA from UCLA, and lived in America for over more than a decade. She now resides in Hong Kong, working in the industry as director/producer, and teaching part-time in the Film Academy's MFA Program at Baptist University. Her first short Der Besuch (The Visit, 1980) as writer/director has been critically acclaimed and honored internationally in Los Angeles, Toronto, Caracas, Quebec, Seattle, New York and Hong Kong. It was a film about her dying father in Germany, with whom she had been separated for seventeen years. She made three movie features in the eighties; My Name Ain't Suzie was nominated and garnered best supporting actress awards. She entered the commercial film business in the nineties. Recently she has made a comeback to feature filmmaking and directed two feature-length documentaries, This Darling Life (2008) nominated Best Documentary in the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards; and One Tree Three Lives (2012) world premiered in the 2012 Hong Kong International Film Festival.