Shih-Ching Tsou
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Shih-Ching Tsou is a Taiwan-born film director and co-creator of Take Out.
, Taiwan
, Tsou came to New York
for her Master's degree in Media Studies at The New School
. It was at The New School where she met Sean Baker. Together they co-created the feature film "Take Out", which they financed themselves with a budget of 3,000.
Although filmed in 2004, it was five years before Take Out was released. It was premiered at the Slamdance film festival, won the Regal Cinemas Dreammaker Award, and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Nashville Film Festival
. It was also nominated for John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2009. It is a social-realist drama about an undocumented Chinese immigrant in New York City. CAVU Pictures released Take Out in theaters nationwide in 2008. Currently Take Out is available on DVD, distributed by KINO International.
Tsou is currently working with Baker on their second co-helmer, Left Handed Girl, a family drama set in a night market in Taiwan, which will be shot in early 2011.
Biography
Born and raised in TaipeiTaipei
Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, Tsou came to New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
for her Master's degree in Media Studies at The New School
The New School
The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...
. It was at The New School where she met Sean Baker. Together they co-created the feature film "Take Out", which they financed themselves with a budget of 3,000.
Although filmed in 2004, it was five years before Take Out was released. It was premiered at the Slamdance film festival, won the Regal Cinemas Dreammaker Award, and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Nashville Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
The Nashville Film Festival , held annually in Nashville, Tennessee, is the oldest running film festival in the South and one of the oldest in the United States. In 2009, Nashville Film Festival received close to 2000 submissions from 86 countries, programmed nearly 260 films and had an attendance...
. It was also nominated for John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2009. It is a social-realist drama about an undocumented Chinese immigrant in New York City. CAVU Pictures released Take Out in theaters nationwide in 2008. Currently Take Out is available on DVD, distributed by KINO International.
Tsou is currently working with Baker on their second co-helmer, Left Handed Girl, a family drama set in a night market in Taiwan, which will be shot in early 2011.