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Zero Chou
Zero Chou
Born	24 July 1969 (age 55); Keelung, Taiwan
Awards	Teddy Award for Best Feature Film; 2007 Spider Lilies
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	周美玲
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Zero Chou (Chinese: 周美玲; pinyin: Zhōu Měilíng; 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 into film making because of her attraction to the combination of content and form. She has been heralded as the most talented documentary director in the recent years of Taiwan.^[1] She has also received various festival awards around the world for films.

Chou and Hoho Liu (Chinese: 劉芸后) are an openly lesbian couple.^[2] Chou "is one of the few openly lesbian filmmakers in the world, and the only one in Taiwan," according to AfterEllen.^[3] 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.^[4]

Works

Documentary

Looking For The Forgotten Artists (Chinese: 走找布袋戲的老藝師) 1997, 45 mins
Artist And His Daughter (Chinese: 藝術家和他的女兒) 1997, 23 mins
Memories Of The Taiwanese Master (Chinese: 師影) 1997, 47 mins
Yi Shi Zai Hai Xia Zhong ("Lost in the Strait") (Chinese: 遺失在海峽中：烏坵) 1998, 48 mins
Being Ceased (Chinese: 斷曲：走尋布袋戲後場的老樂師) 1998, 60 mins
Mother And Son (Chinese: 媽媽遺失與撿到的孩子) 1998, 65 mins
Democracy Show (Chinese: 民主的頭人：政治秀) 1998, 53 mins
Wanderers' Bay (Chinese: 飄泊的港灣：百年基隆港)) 1998, 60 mins
Floating Islands (Chinese: 流離島影) 2000, 288 mins
Before The Radiation (Chinese: 輻射將至) 2000, 22 mins
Headhunting Festival (Chinese: 人頭祭的故事) 2000, 54 mins
Zou Zu Zhan Ji (Chinese: 鄒族戰祭) 2000, 56 mins
Corners (Chinese: 私角落) 2001, 66 mins
Poles Extremity (Chinese: 極端寶島) 2002, 56 mins
The Kinmenese Tracks (Chinese: 火車在海邊游) 2003, 64 mins
Father In The Blacklist (Chinese: 黑名單爸爸) 2004, 56 mins