Q&A with Zero Chou, director of "Spider Lilies"

Zero Chou

Director and screenwriter, graduate of the Philosophy Faculty of the National Chengchi University. She worked as a journalist, and made several documentaries shown at worldwide film festivals in the 1990s and 2000s. Her feature debut about drag queens, "Splendid Float" (2004), received three Golden Horse Awards – including Best Taiwanese Film of the Year. Her feature films focus mostly on LGBTQI+ protagonists. Together with her partner, cinematographer Hoho Liu, she is developing the "Over the Rainbow" project whose goal is to produce a series of LGBTIQ+ films in six different Asian metropolises. She is the only Taiwanese director, apart from Ang Lee and Hou Hsiao-hsien, invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – the body that awards Oscars.