Hung Shih-Ting now works globally as a commercial and music video director, she joined Ridley Scott Associates (RSA Films Asia[4]) in 2009, while maintaining freelance status in most parts of the world.

Her first name "Shih" (pronounced as "she") means "poetry", while her surname "Hung", one of the 15th-most-common surname in Mandarin, means "flood", As a teenager on an island of only 70,000 population, Hung Shih-Ting went through lonely school years and developed the love for Hollywood movies at the age of twelve.

From one interview in 2020, Hung Shih-Ting spoke about recording audio from movie Jerry Maguire on TV to cassette tapes and listening to them hundreds of times repeatedly to practice English, In 1999, Hung Shih-Ting then left hometown Penghu at age nineteen to Taipei, pursuing her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at National Taiwan Normal University, which was considered the best fine art school at that time nationally.

Having experienced the landscape of the 2009 economic crisis as well as the ever present challenges of gender and race issues in the industry, Hung Shih-Ting has overcome much adversity to achieve professional success at an international level as a commercial director.

By persistently knocking on doors and not taking no for an answer, she continues to build her impressive repertoire and filmmaking skills by leading productions in different countries with diverse culture.