Zero Chou

Zero Chou (; born 24 July 1969) is a Taiwanese director and screenwriter.

Life and career Chou was born in Keelung, Taiwan in 1969. She earned a B.A. in Philosophy from National Chengchi University in 1992. She worked as a journalist before becoming an indie film director.

She entered film making because of her attraction to the content and art form. She has been considered as one of the most talented documentary director in recent years inTaiwan. She received a Teddy Award for Best Feature Film in 2007 for the movie Spider Lillies.

Chou and Hoho Liu are an openly lesbian couple. Chou "is one of the few openly lesbian filmmakers in the world, and the only one in Taiwan," according to AfterEllen. She is currently filming a six-film series called the Six Asian Cities Rainbow Project (亞洲六城彩虹計劃). She is trying to finish as quickly as possible and worries she will go missing while filming, since many of the locations have rules against films presenting LGBT content.

Works Documentary Looking for the Forgotten Artists 1997, 45 mins Artist and His Daughter 1997, 23 mins Memories of the Taiwanese Master 1997, 47 mins Yi Shi Zai Hai Xia Zhong (Lost in the Strait) 1998, 48 mins Being Ceased 1998, 60 mins Mother and Son 1998, 65 mins Democracy Show 1998, 53 mins Wanderers' Bay 1998, 60 mins Floating Islands 2000, 288 mins Before the Radiation 2000, 22 mins Headhunting Festival 2000, 54 mins Zou Zu Zhan Ji 2000, 56 mins Corners 2001, 66 mins Poles Extremity 2002, 56 mins The Kinmenese Tracks 2003, 64 mins Father in the Blacklist 2004, 56 mins

Film A Film About the Body 1996, 62 mins Splendid Float 2004, 71 mins The Road on the Air 2006, 82 mins Spider Lilies 2007, 97 mins (Teddy Award, 2007) Drifting Flowers 2008, 97 mins Wave Breaker 2009, 86 mins Ripples of Desire 2012, 110 mins The Substitute 2017 We are Gamily 2017 Wrath of Desire 2020 Untold Herstory 2022

Television The Rise and Fall of Qing Dynasty (滿清十三皇朝) 1987 Gloomy Salad Days (死神少女) 2010 (因為愛你) 2020

Awards Corners Winner of the 2002 Taipei Film Festival for Best Documentary

Poles Extremity Winner of the 2003 Marseille Festival of Documentary Film for Best Documentary

Splendid Float Winner of the 2004 Golden Horse Award for Best Make Up and Costume Design Winner of the 2004 Golden Horse Award for Best Original Film Song Winner of the 2004 Golden Horse Award for Best Taiwanese Film Of The Year Winner of the 1st CJ Asia Independent Film Festival for Audience Award

Spider Lilies Winner of the 2007 Teddy Award for Best Gay/Lesbian Feature Film at the Berlin Film Festival