Biography

Shih-Ting Hung

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As a Student Academy Awards® winner, Shih-Ting Hung got her MFA from University of Southern California, Animation & Digital Arts in December 2007 and is known as a director with her distinguishable visual style.

Born and raised on a fisherman's island, Pescadores, Hung went onto her fine art study at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. Aside from her 2008 Student Academy winning film "Viola: the Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant" and several music video awards, she has also been broadly involved in numerous film productions as a production designer.
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Shih-Ting Hung is an award winning film and commercial director with a strong eye for art direction. Born and raised on a fishing island off the coast of Taiwan, Hung has painted and drawn since the age of four, dreaming of a Utopia where skies break in half. She left her hometown as a young painter to learn how to make films at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA.

Hung's first film "Viola: the Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant (2008)" was recognized with a Student Academy Award® and subsequently projected as part of digital showcase in New York's Guggenheim Museum. Since then she has shot commercials and art projects all over the world. Hung's multi-cultural experience and a life split between Asia, Europe, and the USA gives her an international perspective from which to tell stories with a unique eye.
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Hung is signed as a director with RSA Films Asia owned by film directors Ridley Scott and Tony Scott.
In New York directing two European PSP® commercials ("Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Color Range") with Sony Playstation®.
Hung's most recent work is the music video "Imitation" for the Orange county based band Melee's 2nd single in album "Devils and Angels" (2008),Warner Brothers Record.
Graduated from University of Southern California with Animation Master Degree. She broke several school curriculum rules to take classes in Production Program to prepare her thesis film, which she later got a Student Academy Award for. The film mixes live action footage with VFX and animation elements for its surrealism look. Several of those class restrictions at USC Cinema School later were changed and opened for all students to take.
In Sep 2024, Shih-Ting Hung is seen with a production team shooting in Budapest, Hungary.

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