Angie Chen has been making films since 1979. She was born in Shanghai,
brought up in Hong Kong and Taiwan, received her MFA from UCLA, and
lived in America for over more than a decade. She now resides in Hong
Kong, working in the industry as director/producer, and teaching
part-time in the Film Academy's MFA Program at Baptist University.
Her first short Der Besuch (The Visit, 1980) as writer/director has
been critically acclaimed and honored internationally in Los Angeles,
Toronto, Caracas, Quebec, Seattle, New York and Hong Kong. It was a
film about her dying father in Germany, with whom she had been
separated for seventeen years. She made three movie features in the
eighties; My Name Ain't Suzie was nominated and garnered best
supporting actress awards. She entered the commercial film business in
the nineties. Recently she has made a comeback to feature filmmaking
and directed two feature-length documentaries, This Darling Life (2008)
nominated Best Documentary in the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards; and One
Tree Three Lives (2012) world premiered in the 2012 Hong Kong
International Film Festival.