| Hsiao Ya-chuan | |||||||||
| Birth Date: | 20 December 1967 | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Changhua County, Taiwan | ||||||||
| Occupation: | Film director | ||||||||
| Children: | 2 | ||||||||
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Hsiao Ya-chuan (born 20 December 1967) is a Taiwanese film director.
Born in 1967, Hsiao attended what later became Taipei National University of the Arts.[1] Commenting on his upbringing in 2018, Hsiao stated, "My father’s frugality created a sense of insecurity in me, as if the family could run out of money anytime. There was a feeling of poverty, where we never had enough to do the same things other people could." He began working closely with Hou Hsiao-hsien,[2] and served as assistant director on Hou's Flowers of Shanghai (1998).[3] Hou has produced several of Hsiao's films, including (2001), Taipei Exchanges (2010), and Father to Son (2018).[3] [4]
Hsiao first feature film, Mirror Image, won the Best Film Award at the 2001 Taipei Film Festival and another prize at the Fukuoka Film Festival.[5] [6] It was also shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May.[7] The next year, Mirror Image was shown as the opening feature at the Taipei Film House.[8] Hsiao worked for a time directing television commercials,[3] [9] before releasing Taipei Exchanges in 2010. The production, commissioned by the Taipei City Government,[10] was shown at the Taipei Film Festival.[11] In 2012, Hsiao directed Something’s Gotta Give, a segment of the anthology film ,[12] which screened at the Berlin International Film Festival and Stockholm International Film Festival. Hsiao's third feature film Father to Son was nominated for a 2018 VPRO Big Screen Award.[3] [13] It premiered at the 2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam.[14] For his 2023 film Old Fox, Hsiao won Best Director at the 60th Golden Horse Awards.[15]
He has two children.[3]