Thursday, Oct 11, 2007 8:12PM /
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Personal showreel website-
http://homepage.mac.com/tonyshyu
Contact email- tonyshyu@mac.com
2007 Directed and written new film Macau Twilight
Directed and written Feature film by Lions Gate films Tequila body shots. A Supernatural comedy horror. Released in U.S. 2001. A story of college friends goes on a trip to Mexico and encounters some supernatural events.
Commercial director: From 1992 worked over 40 commercials in the United States and Taiwan.
Commercials include: MTV Promo, Avon, Volvo, beauty products, movie trailer, Lipovitan Sports Drink, Dececco Pasta, Marvin Window, Clearly Canadian.
2002 Salon films director for the Octopus Card corporate video and Hong Kong Government PSA.
2003 StarTV – “Love Asia” Model show – Director.
Also help develop various show and TV scrīpts.
2004 Filmco- Produce and directed the advertising champagne for various Hong Kong films.
Education:
Art Center, College of Design in Pasadena, BFA 1990 and MFA in Film 1994
Biography:
Born in Taiwan, raised and educated in the United States. Tony received both his B.F.A. and Master degree in Film from the Art Center of Design in Pasadena, California
Traveling back and forth from the States to Asia, Tony has established himself as a successful commercial and music video director in Asia. He has directed and created commercials for such diverse clients as MTV Asia, Clearly Canadian, Lipovitan, Master Card, Avon and Volvo. He has also directed successful music videos for the Cat people sound track, The Cure sound track and Hong Kong celebrities such as Regina Jan. He is widely regarded as one of Taiwan’s premiere director and has won the 1994 Asia Times commercial Gold Award in Taiwan for the High House seaweed commercial.
Tony is noted for his flexibility in directing different types of commercials, from humor to a strong visual storytelling style. In many of these commercials, Tony has demonstrated his creativity and sensibility in outreaching the attention of the audience.
The film Tequila Body Shots is Tony’s feature debut. The writing process took him two years to complete. The story is influenced by one of his favorite romantic Greek myths, “Orpheus”, a story about a man who goes to the underworld to save his wife who is taken by death. Like the commercials he directed, the film show a very strong visual style mix with many humorous situations and corky characters.
Tony believes he is a craftsman when it comes to filmmaking. To him, filmmaking is about the craft of storytelling on both visual and an emotional level. It’s a powerful medium that will still effect and touch people’s emotion. It expresses human experience no other medium can do.
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