Classmates Minus
A group of former high school pals who see their friendship put to test amid their struggles with love, marriage and careers.
Hsin-yao Huang
Casts & Crew
Ming-Shuai Shih
Cheng Jen-Shuo
Na-Do
Guan-Ting Liu
Yi-Wen Chen
Lotus Wang
Ada Pan
Jennifer Hong
Jacqueline Zhu Zhi-Ying
Evelyn Yu-Tong Cheng
Tong Chih-Wei
Lan Wei-Hua
Taka Katou
Chun-Cheng Chen
Hsin-yao Huang
Joanne Yang
Also Directed by Hsin-yao Huang
Underlining the gap between have-nots' lives and elites' world by switching between black and white and glamorous colors, THE GREAT BUDDHA+ vividly illustrates a corrupted village in rural southern Taiwan with memorable style, heartfelt empathy, and whimsical humor. Security guard Pickle and his trash collector friend Belly Button kill time together in night shifts watching the American-educated boss's dash-cam recordings of his various sexual encounters with women. Against the buddies’ will, something horrifying rather than erotic reveals.
Huang Hsin-yao began studying documentary filmmaking in order to make a difference as an ecological activist. While attending Tainan University of the Arts, Huang made this film as a continuation of a previous documentary about the salt evaporation ponds near Tainan. But instead of filming the ponds once more, Huang turned his camera around to capture the state of the mangrove habitat surrounding the ponds. The result marks an important evolution for Huang as an ecologically-minded documentarian.
In August 2009, Typhoon Morakot killed hundreds and caused irreversible damage to Taiwan. On the Alishan Mountains, the rainfall destroyed its forest railway and badly damaged its tourism industry for years. Huang Hsin-yao initially went up the mountain to document the aftermath of the storm. But Huang changed his approach when he claimed he saw many Wu Fengs on the mountain, referencing the Han merchant who, according to folk legends, “civilised” Taiwanese aborigines on Alishan. This scathing documentary asks whether rapid development of the region, be it by deforestation or by exploitation of its natural beauty for tourist dollars, worsened the effects of the typhoon.
This is a documentary on "Tai-ke" male-bonding, and a story about the lost and found of life. The director uses black humor in depicting the lives and encounters of each person through out a period of ten years.
The wetland in Kouhu township, Yunlin County has once been cultivated as farmland but returned to its original state nowadays, The beautiful scenery in the eyes of tourists are nothing but trouble to local residents.....
A commentary of Huang Hsin-yao´s "Contact Prints of Baileng Canal", explaining the history of the canal and presenting other renowned aqueducts of Japan, Italy, Spain and France.
A Buddha statue, three middle-aged men and a mysterious woman. The unexpected encounter among them creates a story of suspense. Will the Buddha protect everyone of us? or does He choose the right ones at His own will?
Huang Hsin-Yao’s directorial debut on documentary
Tuvalu, This defenseless nation of 26 square kilometers will be the first island nation to be submerged by the oceans once the sea level rises due to global warming. The director Huang Hsin-yao left his hometown after the 88 flooding disaster in Taiwan in search of this disappearing island called Tuvalu. While aboard this swaying ship in the Pacific, various fantastic spectacles of Taiwan emerge in the mind of the director… Once out at sea barbecuing, he found under the sea…