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Madonna? No, it's Zero Chou
It was headline news across most of the world that Madonna's latest video work is to be premiered at this year's Berlinale. However, amongst the list of filmmakers from around the world whose work is to be premiered is one of Taiwan's foremost directors, Zero Chou /周美玲winner of last year's 2007 Teddy Prize for 'Spider Lilies'. Her listing confirms her growing reputation as one of Taiwan's foremost film directors.
 | | Zero Chou, Taiwanese Filmmaker with Eyes on the Prizes |
Chou's first work - A Film About The Body ( 身體影片),62 mins) was made in 1996 when Chou, a BA student in Philosophy from thenational Chengchi University and former journalist was 27. Her first documentary, Looking For The Forgotten Artists (走找布袋戲的老藝師, 45 mins) followed the next year, and since then she has made no less than 15 other documentaries and, more recently, three films - Splendid Float ( 艷光四射歌舞團) 2004, 71 mins), The Road On The Air (單車上路) 2006, 82 mins) and Spider Lilies (刺青) 2007, 97 mins) which won the Teddy Award of 2007, below. The film was recognised by the awarding committee for " its symbolic and deeply layered reflection of love, loss and the reclamation of emotions through memory".
 | | Berlin 2007: Zero Chou receiving her Teddy |
The Berlin prize was the latest of many: Chou had been the 2002 documentary winner in Tapei (Poles Exptremity); then Marseilles (Splendid Float, Documentary, 2003); and the winner of the Audience Award CJ Asia Independent Film Festival for Spider Lilies).
Zero Chou/ 周美玲 now returns to a welcoming Berlinale with her latest film, Drifting Flowers that will not be featuring Madonna, but will star Serena Fang, Pai Chih-ying and Chao Yi-lan.
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