A tireless advocate of 'new cinemas' in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China, Peggy Chiao Hsiung-ping first reached prominence in international circles for her critical work on ground-breaki ...Show More
A tireless advocate of 'new cinemas' in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China, Peggy Chiao Hsiung-ping first reached prominence in international circles for her critical work on ground-breaking Taiwanese directors such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien, before turning to film production. Chiao studied film at UT Austin (1977-81), then at UCLA (1983-5). A film critic for some of the major Taiwanese newspapers-United Daily News, China Times, China Times Express-she has also been teaching at the Taipei National University of Arts since 1985. She wrote a number of books, including: New Taiwan Cinema (1987) Hong Kong New Wave (1987) and Aspects of New Asian Films (1991). Internationally she was known to help Chinese-language film directors to be recognized. She also served many international film festival juries.In 1990, she established the China Times Express Awards for young cinema. She was the CEO of National Taiwan Film Year consigned by the government in 1993, for which she programmed 13 retrospectives of Taiwan films abroad, and various projects to consolidate film industry and culture. Then she founded the Taiwan Film Centre in 1994, to help develop an international network for local filmmakers, and, in 1997, opened Arc Light, a production company with pan-Chinese ambitions. Among the films thus produced are: in Hong Kong, the series A Personal Memoir from Hong Kong (1997), Ann Hui's As Time Goes By and Stanley Kwan's Still Love You After All These...; in Taiwan, Ts'ai Ming-liang's The Hole (1998), Lin Chen-sheng's Betelnut Beauty (2001),Yee Chih-Yen's Blue Gate Crossing (2002), Christine Yao's Empire of Silver(2009) and Cheng Fen Fen's Hear Me(2009); and in China, Wang Xiaoshuai's Beijing Bicycle (2001) and Drifters (2002), Liu Fen Dou's Green Hat (2004), Li Yu's Lost in Beijing(2007) and Buddha Mountain(2011) and Sherwood Hu's Lord of Shanghai(2016) . She was the chair of the prestigious Golden Horse Film Festival. Hide
