Wang Shaudi

Wang Shaudi (Chinese: 王小棣; pinyin: Wáng Xiǎodì) is a Taiwanese film and television director, writer, and producer.

Her works mostly focus on depicting local society and personal connections through dramatic storytelling.

After working on a number of television productions, she wrote and directed her first feature length film, Accidental Legend, which was released in 1996.

[4] During an interview with the Public Television Service of Taiwan, Wang Shaudi drew an analogy between film directors and sociology students.

Due to the government incompetence in recent years, artists are compelled to engage in social activism and express public opinions.

In a democratic society, good public servants are supposed to take care of its people rather than making them suffer.

(「為什麼拆大埔?大家要看清楚。誰沒事拆政府?它做事太離譜。民主本該有好公僕,讓人民享福不是吃苦。台灣走了這麼長的路,誰能忍心看它退步?我們都是小人物,但是天下興亡就是看匹夫。」「大家都感受到台灣的退步,令人痛心。更重要是,台灣發生了一系列無法停止的迫害事件,已經令人無法安心工作,這觸及到身為一個人的底線了,例如士林王家、大埔的事情都是一樣。」)"[5][6][7] In the same context, Wang Shaudi also pointed out that the previous generations have experienced extreme trauma in social revolutions to fight for justice and freedom for Taiwan's posterities, which should not be defied by the current government’s lack of transparency and rational reflexivity concerning its urban development and nuclear power policies.