Zhong Menghong

Zhong Menghong

Zhong Menghong, born in 1965 in Pingtung County, Taiwan, is a film director, screenwriter and photographer in Taiwan, China. He graduated from the Department of information engineering of Taiwan Jiaotong University with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in film production from the Chicago Institute of art.

In 2006, he directed the documentary doctor, which was nominated for the best documentary award of the 43rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award. In 2008, he directed his first plot film parking, which was shortlisted in the "one concern" unit of the 61st Cannes International Film Festival. In 2010, he directed the feature film "the fourth picture" and won the best director award of the 47th Taiwan Golden Horse Film Award.

In 2013, director of the thriller "lost soul" was nominated for the best director award of the 50th Golden Horse Award. In 2016, director of the feature film "Bon Voyage" was nominated for the best director award of the 53rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award. In 2017, he was the producer and photographer of the feature film "Big Buddha Plath" and won the best Photography Award of the 54th Taiwan Golden Horse Film Award. In 2018, he was the producer and photographer of the suspense drama Xiaomei, and won the best Photography Award of the 20th Taipei Film Festival.

Early experience

Zhong Menghong was born in Pingtung County, Taiwan. When he was studying in Chicago Art Institute, he began to borrow money and work everywhere because he had no money. He didn't officially graduate until 1993. After graduation, he returned to Taiwan to do odd jobs, work as an assistant and move machines in many studios.

Acting experience

In 2006, he directed the documentary doctor, which was nominated for the best documentary award of the 43rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award. In 2008, he directed the feature film "Parking", CO starring Zhang Zhen, GUI Lun Mei and Dai Li Ren. This is the first feature film directed by Zhong Meng Hong. It tells a series of fantastic stories caused by parking in Taipei. The film was shortlisted in the "one concern" unit of the 61st Cannes International Film Festival. He won the best director award of the 11th Taipei Film Festival for this film Best screenwriter award.

In 2010, he directed the feature film "the fourth painting" adapted from real social events, CO starring Bi Xiaohai, Hao Lei and Dai Liren. He won the best director award of the 47th Golden Horse Award for the film.

In 2011, he co directed the plot film "10 + 10" with 20 directors including Wang Xiaodi, Wang Tong and Zhu Yanping, which is composed of 5-minute short films shot by each of 20 directors. In the same year, he won the 11th Chinese Film Media Award and was named by 100 media annual honorary filmmakers.

In 2013, he directed the thriller "lost soul", CO starred by Zhang Xiaoquan, Wang Yu and Dai Liren, which tells the suspense story of a man with mental problems. With this film, he won the best Photography Award at the 15th Taipei Film Festival, the best director award and the best Photography Award nomination at the 50th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award, and competed for the best film award at the 86th Academy Awards on behalf of Taiwan, China Foreign language film award.

In 2016, he directed the crime film "Bon Voyage" co starred by Xu Guanwen, Lin Yuzhi and Tuo Zonghua, which won the best cross-strait Chinese film award of the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards. He won the best director award and the best Photography Award of the 53rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award for this film.

In 2017, he was the producer and photographer of the feature film "Big Buddha Plath" directed by Huang Xinyao, starring Chen Zhusheng, Zhuang Yizeng and Dai Liren. The film won the best Cross Strait Chinese film award at the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards, and he was nominated for the best Photography Award at the 54th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award and the best Photography Award at the 12th Asian Film Awards.

In 2018, he was the producer and photographer of the suspense drama Xiaomei directed by Huang Rongsheng, and was nominated for the best Photography Award of the 20th Taipei Film Festival and the 55th Golden Horse Award for Taiwan film.

Main works

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Director's work

Screenwriter's works

Production works

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Award winning record

Character evaluation

Zhong Menghong presents the theme of social care with strong plot tension in the film. He shows love and warmth through cruel means. His evil and grotesque methods are unique in Taiwan films. In addition, his works have Yang Dechang's "legacy" (review of the morning news, Phoenix Entertainment and Bund pictorial)

As a representative of Taiwan's rising star, Zhong Menghong's works directly face the current social devastation in Taiwan and the spiritual crisis of modern Taiwanese. His "image construction" and "spiritual expression" reflect the wasteland consciousness. He expressed his concern for the contemporary social environment, as well as the living state and real and complex inner feelings of the people as the main body of the society with modernist creative concept and realistic shooting techniques. He basically takes the real space as the foundation, records the special side of the space through the camera, and explores the relationship between the characters and the space. Different from many directors, when dealing with "death", he does not directly express it as a present tense, but constructs it in the past tense to show the influence of the past death subject on the present people, so as to show the living state and spiritual crisis of modern people. He wrote about Taiwan's natural environment and social environment. In particular, he expressed his anxiety about "Taiwan" through the camera's mirror record of the barren natural environment. (review of cultural and educational materials)

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