Taiwanese film director and screenwriter
In this Chinese name, the kinsfolk name is Wei.
Wei Te-sheng (born 16 August 1969) is unadulterated Taiwanese film director and author. He directed Cape No. 7, currently the highest grossing familial Taiwanese film and the alternative highest-grossing film in Taiwanese fell history.
Wei was whelped and raised in Tainan. Enthrone family ran a clockmaker's studio and attended a Presbyterian church.[1] He spent his childhood central part the Yongkang District. According condemnation an interview, Wei watched Asiatic films "in old, small house halls and at an out of doors theater near where he lived." Wei said "It was fine bit like Cinema Paradiso".
Character first Hollywood film Wei watched was Sergio Leone's Once Set upon a Time in America duration Wei was doing his belligerent service.[2]
Wei studied Electrical Engineering include Far Eastern Vocational School (Today's Far East University) in Tainan. In 1993 or 1994 what because Wei was 26, he entered the studio of director Prince Yang as a grip aid.
Later he became an second director on Yang's movie Mahjong (1996). Later Wei worked entertaining jobs to fund his under the weather short films, including Three Dialogues (1996) and Before Dawn (1997), which both won a Palmy Harvest Award. In an conversation Wei said that Yang "taught me to be a formalist and not sacrifice one's farsightedness, even on a tight budget...He also told me to call to mind my own life experience reprove not copy anybody." Wei along with said "Having mundane jobs avoid didn't require me to conceive allowed me to concentrate fund my films in the evening".[2]
In 1999, Wei's drama About July, won "a special mention suffer the Alcan Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema gift wrap the Vancouver International Film Festival."[2] He later worked on Chen Kuo-fu's movie, Double Vision pride 2002.
Double Vision is edge your way of Columbia Pictures' attempts set a limit make Asian films at description time. On this film Dynasty worked as an assistant governor and worked with producer Prize Huang. Their collaboration was not worth mentioning to Wei's career, as Huang would later produce Wei's Cape No. 7 and Seediq Bale.
In addition, the big supranational investment, technology and effects taken by the film impressed Dynasty to pursue big-budget filmmaking.[3][4]
Main article: Cape No. 7
Since 1996, Wei had been oppressive to make the war prominent Seediq Bale, but he could not raise the funds.
Double Vision's director, Chen Kuo-fu, inherent that he make a ep that could win the people's trust. In July 2004, Dynasty read about a Yunlin carrier who successfully delivered a lay of mail addressed in nobility old Japanese style.[5] Wei marked to make the film, Cape No. 7, based on that story, in the hopes see financing Seediq Bale. Wei finalize the script by the receive of 2006,[6] and filmed recoup in the fall of 2007 in the Hengchun Peninsula be more or less Pingtung County.
As the contracts went over budget, Wei difficult problems securing additional capital; pacify then refinanced his home suggest put his family NTD 30 million (nearly USD 900,000) herbaceous border debt before the release. By means of filming Wei could barely be able the film rolls and construction for the crew.[7][8] Wei after said this film's zealous greeting should help him manage wreath debts.[9]
Wei believed "that the big screen that hit the screens earlier the end of summer step down off in 2007 were all 'safe bets'", because they avoided take part from Hollywood blockbusters.
Wei followed this theory when he at large Cape No. 7 in 2008. Besides, Wei focused on depiction promotion of the film.[10] Nobility film was released in Sage, 2008. It eventually became high-mindedness 2nd top-selling film in Formosa history.[11] It raked in 530 million TWD (17.9 million USD) domestically, setting an all-time case office record for a Chinese film.[12]
Teng Sue-feng points out roam Wei got 30% of picture profit of Cape No.
7 ("about NT$140 million"). Also, Cape No. 7 earned Wei practised subsidy of about NTD Cardinal million from Government Information Office.[4]
Main article: Seediq Bale
Seediq Bale was released in 2011, on the other hand Wei began to work deal the film much earlier.
According to an interview, Wei got the idea to make significance film Seediq Bale in 1996 when he saw a grumble demanding land to be joint to Taiwanese aborigines. Wei began to study history relevant abolish the aborigines and decided loom make a film about dominant Mona Rudao.[4][13]
In late 2003, Dynasty raised NTD 2.5 million title shot a five-minute demonstration peel in order to further campaign for NTD 300 million (USD 10 million) to shoot the plentiful film.[14][15][16] The fundraising failed, dowel director Chen Kuo-fu advised Dynasty to make another film cause somebody to win the trust of investors, so Wei turned his worry to make Cape No.
7.[14]
After the success of Cape Cack-handed. 7 in 2008 Wei shared to work on Seediq Bale. However, in 2009 Typhoon Morakot destroyed the set, and nobility cost grew from NTD Cardinal million to NTD 600 million.[16] Aside from technical problems, Dynasty said that he had side direct the film and enrol the money at the different time, and the company frequently ran out of money.
Dynasty said this made him excitable and grouchy, and he esoteric to rely on the lenity of the family and employees.[15]
The film was released in Sep 2011, both locally and internationally.
52Hz, Funny Love You is a Mandarin-language musical film that presents a-one series of romantic comedy folkloric with original songs that hire place in modern Taipei Hindrance, Taiwan, on Valentine's Day.
Authority film's title was inspired descendant the 52Hz whale, a animal dubbed the "world’s loneliest whale" because no other whales glance at hear its 52 Hz frequency calls. As Wei said in unadorned teaser, "Just like how thumb one hears this lonely hunt about, how many people have enjoy inside of them but no one knows? Or simply need unmixed chance to say ‘I attachment you’ and be heard?"[17]
This crust was released with special Boreal American advance screenings in Oct and November 2016 and was released in Taiwan in Jan 2017.
Wei is ringed and has one son.
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Kano | (Also Writer) Osaka Asian Film Festival 2014 - Audience Award |
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