Shang-Sing Guo

A man lives his everyday life like a man on wire.

<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none"><span style="font-family:Perpetua"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Born in Taipei, </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">GUO </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">writes and directs for film and theatre. He has developed interest in storytelling at a young age when he grew up with his grandparents in a temple in southern Taiwan. In 2011, Guo received Domestic Film Fund of Taiwan government for his screenplay </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How I Learned to Tell a Lie</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. He flew from New York back home, produced and directed the short film over the summer and fall in 2011.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Perpetua;mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:#242424"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="Body" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Perpetua"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">An alumnus from Berlinale Talent Campus 2009, he obtained an MFA from the Graduate Film Program in NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he was awarded the Tisch School of the Arts Scholarships and Dalio Family Foundation Scholarship for Excellence; Haig Manoogian Award for his thesis film </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Only Meal of the Day</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (2010). It was also selected in San Francisco and New York Asian American International Film Festivals, Film Expo Asia Bangkok, Kaohsiung and First Run Film Festivals. Other works include </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Translucent</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (2009) that screened at First Run and Desiderata Festivals in New York; </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Unaccompanied</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (2009) at New Director’s Series in Anthology Film Archives in New York; </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Close</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (2007) at Slamdance Anarchy and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Stroke</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (2006) in Lucania Film Festival Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="Body" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Perpetua"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Currently Guo is working on his feature script </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Afternoon Thunderstorm</span></i></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:21.0pt;font-family:Perpetua;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->

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