John Hsu

John Hsu

John HSU (1981, Taiwan) obtained his master's degree in the department of Radio, Television and Film at Shih Hsin University. His first TV film, Real Online, was awarded Best Fiction Film at the 2005 South Taiwan Film & Video Festival. It also earned him the Best Director Award at Golden Bell Awards, the biggest television award in Taiwan. Hsu is co-founder of AFK PL@YERS, the biggest machinima production group in Taiwan. Several of his short films have previously screened at IFFR. Detention is his first feature film. Hsu has a special interest in digital culture, video games, comedy and science fiction.

Filmography

(selection) Server #15 (2005, short), Ching teng jou hsien shih/Real Online (2005, TV), Good Evening the Horde (2006, short), Azeroth Movie Top3 (2006, short), Thrall's Christmas Tree (2007, short), The Patchie Chronicles (2007, short), Intoxicant (2008, short), Wrath of a Couch Potato (2008, short), Major League Azeroth (2009, short), Cataclysm Millionaire (2010, short), Cataclysm on a Couch Potato (2011, short), After Dark (2011, short), Quest Busters (2011, short), Anton Pourquoi: No Reroll EP1-EP3 (2012, short), Hsiao ching hsin da bao cha/The Great Escape from Café City (2013, short), A ba de tien chi yu bao/Weather Report of the End (2015, short), Your Spiritual Temple Sucks (2017, short), Fan shiao/Detention (2019)

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