Midi Z
Midi Z (born December 18, 1982) is a Myanmar-born Taiwanese film director. He is known for his films Ice Poison (2014), The Road to Mandalay (2016), and The Unseen Sister (2024).
Also recorded as Chao Te-yin · Zhào Déyìn
Midi Z
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- Name
- Midi Z
- Birth Name
- Chao Teh-in
- Born
- 18 December 1982
- Birthplace
- Lashio, Shan State, Myanmar
- Education
- National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Master of Design
- Occupation
- Film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor
- Awards
- 53rd Golden Horse Awards, Taipei Film Awards
- Nationality
- Taiwan and Myanmar.
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Midi Z (born December 18, 1982) is a Myanmar-born Taiwanese film director. He is known for his films Ice Poison (2014), The Road to Mandalay (2016), and The Unseen Sister (2024).
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• Name — Midi Z • Birth Name — Chao Teh-in • Born — 18 December 1982 • Birthplace — Lashio, Shan State, Myanmar • Education — National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Master of Design • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor • Awards — 53rd Golden Horse Awards, Taipei Film Awards
Life and career
Life and career
Chao was born in Lashio, Shan State, Myanmar. Both his parents are of Chinese descent, and his ancestral home is in Nanking. The son of a cook and a doctor, Chao was the youngest of five children and grew up poor. He won a scholarship and moved to Taiwan when he was 16, where he went to high school. Chao received both his bachelor's degree and master's degree in design at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, after which he became a naturalized Taiwanese citizen in 2011. He was named Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year at the 53rd Golden Horse Awards in 2016.
Features
Features
• 2011: Return to Burma (歸來的人) • 2012: Poor Folk (窮人。榴槤。麻藥。偷渡客) • 2014: Ice Poison (冰毒) • 2016: The Road to Mandalay (再見瓦城) • 2019: Nina Wu (灼人秘密) • 2024: The Unseen Sister (乔妍的心事) • TBA: The Exiles
Documentaries
Documentaries
• 2015: Jade Miners (挖玉石的人) • 2016: City of Jade (翡翠之城) • 2018: 14 Apples (十四顆蘋果)
Life and career
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Life and career
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1982
Midi Z born at Lashio.
2019
Nina Wu - Midi Z - 2019 sub Ita-Eng (2025) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
Short films
• 2014: The Palace on the Sea
Awards
• 2014: Taipei Film Awards: Best Director • 2016: 53rd Golden Horse Awards: Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year • 2016: 73rd Venice International Film Festival: FEDEORA Award for Best Film
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- 1."Ice Poison représentera Taiwan aux Oscars du cinéma", Taiwan Info, 11 septembre 2014.
- 2.Interview de la Public Television Service de Taïwan dans l'émission 藝文大道 du 9 novembre 2014.
- 3.Midi Z (dictée) Zheng Yu-Rong (鄭育容) et Fang Pei-Jing (方沛晶) (éditeurs),《聚。離。冰毒：趙德胤的電影人生紀事》[Assembler, Séparer, Ice Poison : L’histoire de la vie cinématographique de Midi Z], Common Wealth Magazine, Taipei, 2015, .
- 4.idem.
- 5.Site internet de l’Académie du film du Festival du Cheval d’or.
- 6.Midi Z (dictée) Zheng Yu-Rong et Fang Pei-Jing (éditeurs), op. cit., .
- 7.Sur ces deux films, voir l'article de Richard Kuipers qui leur est consacré dans la revue de cinéma américaine Variety.
- 8.Sur ce film, voir l'article bilingue (anglais et chinois) qui lui est consacré sur le site du quotidien taiwanais China Times.
- 9.Christie Chen, "Golden Horse Awards: Midi Z receives outstanding filmmaker award", in : Focus Taiwan (26 nov. 2016).
- 10.Présentation du film sur le site du Festival de Cannes 2019.
- 11.Interview du réalisateur à l’occasion de la sélection de son film à la des Oscars du cinéma : "La relation réelle et abstraite entre le documentaire et l’art".
- 12.Le budget du film aurait été de 40 millions de dollars taiwanais, soit un million d'euros environ, un budget moyen pour un film taiwanais. Voir l'article bilingue (anglais et chinois) qui lui est consacré sur le site du quotidien taiwanais China Times.
- 13.Le 7 novembre 2016, soit un mois avant sa sortie officielle à Taiwan : Christie Chen, "Golden Horse Awards: Midi Z receives outstanding filmmaker award", in : Focus Taiwan (26 nov. 2016).
- 14.Richard Kuipers, "Busan Film Review: The Road to Mandalay", in : Variety (8 oct. 2016).
- 15.Todd McCarthy, « Nina Wu: Film Review | Cannes 2019 », in The Hollywood Reporter (14 août 2019).
- 16.Sam Worthington, David Duchovny and Ke-Xi Wu to Star in Asia-set Crime Thriller ‘The Exiles’ (Exclusive). The Hollywood Reporter. 28 janvier 2026.
- 17.Traduction du titre non officielle.
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