Leste Chen (b. 1981, Taiwan) is currently one of the most prolific and most successful film directors in Taiwan; he shares an equal interest in both film and video. He has made around a dozen music videos featuring music stars from Taiwan and Hong Kong, and his short and medium-length films have been regularly winning awards at important Asian festivals in recent years. His feature debut entitled The Heirloom (Zhaibian, 2005) has had the greatest audience figures for a domestic film since 2002, and it also went into distribution in Europe and the USA. In his work, Leste Chen focuses on the world of young heroes, and his artistic approach is influenced by such filmmakers as Pedro Almodóvar, Alfonso Cuarón and Kim Ji-Woon.
MFF Karlovy Vary
