C. Jay Shih

C. Jay Shih started shooting 8mm animation and experimental films while back in 1980s. Being a college student, he already won a few times for prestigious Golden Harvest Short Film Competition Awards in Taiwan. After graduated from university, he and friends founded the first clay animation studio in Taiwan, Cats. Between 1988 and 1992, he went to United States for his master degree, majoring in computer graphics at New York Institute of Technology. In 1992, he came back to Taipei and made 16mm animation Taipei Taipei, and 35mm stop motion animation Post Human, which won the best animation award in Golden Horse Award, Taiwan's Oscar, and became the landmarks of stop motion animation in Taiwanese animation history. Besides teaching, he also works as freelance animation director for Asian MTV, Star TV Channel in Hong Kong, and some other commercial companies in Taipei. In 1998, he was invited to be the Director of Graduate Institute of Animation of Tainan National College of the Arts, which is the first graduate department fully dedicated to animation education in Taiwan. Since 2004 July, he has been teaching at the Department of Multimedia and Animation Arts of National Taiwan University of Arts, and continuing his dedication to animation education. In 2006, his collaborated work, A Fish with a smile, won the jury award of 56th Berlinale Kinderfilmfest.