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Midi Z (; born December 18, 1982) is a
Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...
-born Taiwanese film director. His 2014 film '' Ice Poison'' was selected as the Taiwanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the
87th Academy Awards The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2014 and took place on February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30  ...
. On November 7, 2016, his work '' The Road to Mandalay'' (2016) was screened in his home country for the first time.


Life and career

Chao was born in
Lashio Lashio ( ; Shan: ) is the largest city and the capital of northern Shan State, Myanmar, about north-east of Mandalay. It is situated on a low mountain spur overlooking the valley of the Yaw River. Loi Leng, the highest mountain of the Shan Hi ...
,
Shan State Shan State (, ; , ) is a administrative divisions of Myanmar, state of Myanmar. Shan State borders China (Yunnan) to the north, Laos (Louang Namtha Province, Louang Namtha and Bokeo Provinces) to the east, and Thailand (Chiang Rai Province, Chia ...
,
Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...
. Both his parents are of Chinese descent, and his
ancestral home An ancestral home is the place of origin of one's extended family, particularly the home owned and preserved by the same family for several generations. The term can refer to an individual house or estate, or to a broader geographic area such as a ...
is in Nanking. The son of a cook and a doctor, Chao was the youngest of five children and grew up poor. He won a scholarship and moved to Taiwan when he was 16, where he went to high school. Chao received both his bachelor's degree and master's degree in design at
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology The National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (abbreviated as NTUST or TaiwanTech) is a public university located in Taipei, Taiwan. TaiwanTech was established in 1974 as the National Taiwan Institute of Technology (), the first and ...
, after which he became a naturalized Taiwanese citizen in 2011. He was named Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year at the
53rd Golden Horse Awards The 53rd Golden Horse Awards (Mandarin:第53屆金馬獎) took place on November 26, 2016, at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. Organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, the awards honored the best fi ...
in 2016.


Filmography


Features

*2011 : ''Return to Burma'' (歸來的人) *2012 : ''Poor Folk'' (窮人。榴槤。麻藥。偷渡客) *2014 : '' Ice Poison'' (冰毒) *2016 : '' The Road to Mandalay'' (再見瓦城) *2019 : '' Nina Wu'' (灼人秘密) *2024 : ''The Unseen Sister'' (乔妍的心事)


Documentaries

*2018 : ''14 Apples'' (十四顆蘋果) *2015 : ''Jade Miners'' (挖玉石的人) *2016 : ''City of Jade'' (翡翠之城)


Short films

*2014 : ''The Palace on the Sea''


Awards

*2014:
Taipei Film Awards The Taipei Film Awards () are given by the Taipei Film Festival The Taipei Film Festival (TFF; ) is a film festival promoted by the city of Taipei, Taiwan, through the Department of Cultural Affairs of the Taipei City Government. It was first ...
: Best Director *2016:
53rd Golden Horse Awards The 53rd Golden Horse Awards (Mandarin:第53屆金馬獎) took place on November 26, 2016, at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. Organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, the awards honored the best fi ...
: Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year *2016:
73rd Venice International Film Festival The 73rd annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 31 August to 10 September, 2016, at Venice Lido in Italy. English filmmaker Sam Mendes was the jury president of the main competition. Italian actress Sonia Bergamasco hosted th ...
: FEDEORA Award for Best Film


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* {{authority control 1982 births Living people Taiwanese film directors Taiwanese screenwriters Burmese people of Chinese descent Burmese emigrants to Taiwan Naturalized citizens of Taiwan People from Shan State