Yi Zhiyan

Yi Zhiyan

Yi Zhiyan, born on November 21, 1959, is a director, screenwriter and writer in Taiwan, China. He graduated from the Department of foreign languages of Taiwan University of political science.

In 1987, he directed the short film grasshopper. In 1995, he wrote and directed his first feature film lonely heart club. In 2002, the love film "Blue Gate" directed by him was released, and the film was shortlisted for the 23rd golden Picture award - Best Asian Film Award, and the 15th Tokyo International Film Festival main competition unit - Tokyo Film Festival Award. In 2005, he co directed the three part love movie "love map" with xiashantian and Zhang Yibai. In 2006, directed the campus drama "dangerous mind". In 2012, he published the novel blue gate. In 2014, the plot film "action code: Sun Yat Sen" directed by him was released and won the 51st Golden Horse Award for best original script. He won the best screenwriter award of the 16th Taipei Film Festival for his film. In 2018, he directed the short film "get used to having you".

Acting experience

Yi Zhiyan graduated from the Department of foreign languages of Taiwan Chengchi University, and later entered UCLA to study for a master's degree in television and film production. His works in his student days won many awards in international student film competitions. After graduating from the University of California and returning to Taiwan, he worked in the production and Planning Department of China Central Film Corporation and was a lecturer in the drama department of China University of culture. In 1987, he directed the short film grasshopper. In 1995, he wrote and directed his first feature film lonely heart club. In 2002, the love movie "Blue Gate", directed by him, was released. It tells the story of high school students Meng Kerou, Lin Yuezhen and Zhang Shihao's ignorant love and growth. It was shortlisted for the 23rd golden statue award - Best Asian Film Award, and the 15th Tokyo International Film Festival main competition unit - Tokyo Film Festival Award. In 2005, he co directed the three-stage love movie "love map" with xiashantian and Zhang Yibai. In 2006, he directed the campus play dangerous mind, which is adapted from Hou Wenyong's novel of the same name. In 2011, he was the producer of the plot film "pick youth", which was directed by Chen Dapu. In 2012, he published the novel blue gate. In 2014, his film action code: Sun Yat Sen was released, which tells the story of two students' Reflection on life. The film won the 51st Golden Horse Award for best original script, and he won the best screenwriter award in the 16th Taipei Film Festival. In the same year, he published the novel action code: Sun Yat Sen. In 2018, he directed the short film "get used to having you".

Personal life

On November 30, 2016, Yi Zhiyan came out on Facebook.

Main works

Directing works

Screenwriter's works

Supervised production

literary works

Award winning record

Character evaluation

Yi Zhiyan is an author director with distinct personality and unique style. Under the entertainment stories and aesthetic images, social expression is the spiritual core. The construction of space in the film has a prominent characteristic of "heterogeneous space". His works are basically independent productions with the integration of editing and directing and independent financing. For him, film is a kind of unique "discourse power" and "voice way", which can be integrated with the distinct consciousness of thinking and exploration of the author, especially in the field of youth film, which he is good at. His films also inherit the creative route of Taiwan youth films. Most of his films take the youth type as the shape, and take the youth's learning, life, emotion and other experiences in the process of growing up as the theme. He unfolds the story telling with the youth campus as the main space and the growth, love, friendship as the important theme. At the same time, he boldly breaks through the established concept and integrates comedy into the framework of youth type Rich type elements, strengthen the description of the status quo and the psychological connotation of the youth role, and strive to explore in the emotional orientation, realistic issues, social value and other multi-dimensional levels, innovative definition of the new Taiwan Youth Film (Contemporary Film Review).

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