Huang Hsin-yao

[2] Since junior high, Huang has worked part-time in factories and for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), putting up posters and distributing flyers to support his family.

Later, he studied at the evening school of Chinese Culture University College of Journalism & Communication in Taipei and became active in social movements.

[6] In 2014, Huang made his first fictional short film, Da Fo (Chinese: 大佛) about a murder committed by the boss of a buddha statue factory witnessed by his security guard and his friend, who collects recyclables for a living.

[7] The feature film expands the original plot to tell a story reflecting the social discrepancy in rural Taiwan that is surrealistically realistic.

In 2015, he made Cloud Nation (Chinese: 雲之國), in which he intentionally suppresses his own presence and abandons narrator’s voiceover, for which his films were known.

[9] In 2020, Huang drew inspiration from his documentary Bluffing to make another feature film, Classmates Minus (Chinese: 同學麥娜絲) also produced by Chung Mong-Hong.