Hu Tai-li (March 11, 1950 – May 7, 2022) was a Taiwanese anthropologist and documentary director from Taipei.

[1] She graduated from Taipei First Girls' High School,[2] obtained her bachelor's degree in history from National Taiwan University, and later earned her master's and doctoral degrees in anthropology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

She also served as an adjunct professor in the Anthropology Department at National Tsing Hua University.

[1][3] Hu was the first and second president of the Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Association and founded the Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival in 2001.

Her work Passing Through My Mother-in-law's Village (1997) is the first documentary screened publicly in commercial theater in Taiwan.