Wei Te-Sheng is the director of Cape No. 7

Cape No. 7

Cape No. 7 ) is a 2008 Taiwanese romance comedic music-drama film written and directed by Wei Te-Sheng, his first full-length motion picture. The film is in Taiwanese and Mandarin Chinese with significant lines in Japanese. Before its commercial release, the film was world premiered on June 20,...

, the 2nd top-selling film in Taiwanese history.

Career

Wei’s film career began when he got a job in a small production house. Then he became an assistant in Edward Yang

Edward Yang

Edward Yang , along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi .-Biography:...

's film studio in 1995. When Yang was filming Mahjong

Mahjong (1996 film)

Mahjong is a 1996 Taiwanese Comedy film written and directed by Edward Yang. The film stars Chang Chen, Nick Erickson and Virginie Ledoyen.-Cast and roles:*Tang Congsheng as Red Fish*Chang Chen as Hong Kong*Lawrence Ko as Lun-lun...

(1996), he was promoted to assistant director from a grip assistant. From 1995 to 1998, he had shot shorts including "Face in the Evening" (1995), "Three Dialogues" (1996) and "Before Dawn" (1997), and all three films had won Golden Harvest Award for Film and Digital Video.

Moreover, his 1999 16 mm film "About July" won great reviews from film critics in Taiwan, and was honored with a Special Mention from the Alcan Dragons And Tigers Award For Young Cinema at the Vancouver International Film Festival

Vancouver International Film Festival

The Vancouver International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for two weeks in late September and early October...

. He was also the associate producer of Double Vision (2002), produced by Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia.

In 2004, he raised 2.5 million NT dollars by himself and shot the teaser of "Seediq Bale

Seediq Bale

Seediq Bale is the fourth studio album by the Taiwanese black metal band ChthoniC, and the first to receive full promotion and release outside of Asia...

" in order to further raise 200 million dollars for the finance of shooting the complete film.

In 2011, Wei's new feature film Seediq Bale has been selected as one of the films in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival

68th Venice International Film Festival

The 68th annual Venice Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, took place from 31 August to 10 September 2011. American film director Darren Aronofsky was announced as the Head of the Jury. American actor and film director Al Pacino was presented with the Glory to the Film-maker award on 4 September,...

.

Director

• Face in the Evening (1995)
• Three Dialogues (1996)
• Before Dawn (1997)
• About July (1999)
• Cape No. 7
  Cape No. 7
  Cape No. 7 ) is a 2008 Taiwanese romance comedic music-drama film written and directed by Wei Te-Sheng, his first full-length motion picture. The film is in Taiwanese and Mandarin Chinese with significant lines in Japanese. Before its commercial release, the film was world premiered on June 20,...
  
  (2007)
• Seediq Bale
  Seediq Bale
  Seediq Bale is the fourth studio album by the Taiwanese black metal band ChthoniC, and the first to receive full promotion and release outside of Asia...
  
  (2011)

External links

• Seediq Bale is Taiwan director Wei’s dream project(in English)

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