Wang Shaudi

Wang Shaudi (Wang Xiaodi in pinyin) is a Taiwanese film and television director, writer and producer, born in Taipei in 1953. She studied theater arts at the Chinese Culture University, theatre in Texas and film at the University of San Francisco, then returned to Taiwan in 1979. In 1992 she co-founded Rice Film International with director Huang Li-ming, a company that mainly produces television series and television films for Taiwan's Public Television Service, and she won several Golden Bell Awards for her television work. Her first feature, Accidental Legend, was released in 1996, and her animated feature Grandma and Her Ghosts won awards at the Taipei, Hong Kong and Vancouver film festivals. She has taught film at the Taipei National University of the Arts and the Chinese Culture University, and received the Taiwan National Award for Arts in 2014.