David Chuang

David Chuang (Chuang Hsuan-wei), born in Kaohsiung in 1983, is a Taiwanese director. He moved to Canada when he was 16 and started to be inspired and influenced by Hollywood genre films from the '90s. He studied computer visual effects at the Vancouver Film School before returning to Taiwan to specialize in film studies, eventually graduating from the Director's Group of the Film Creation Department at the National Taipei University of the Arts. His work is characterized by its strong visual rhythm and its exploration of the subtle changes between good and evil. His short films "SPOON" and "Revenge" were respectively nominated for the Golden Harvest Awards for Best Animated Film and Best Drama. In 2017, his film "Upstream" was nominated for the Golden Bell Awards for TV Movie and Director's category. In 2018, he released his first feature-length film, "The Tag-Along: The Devil Fish." David Chuang is best known for his 2020 series "The Victims' Game," for which he was nominated for the Best Drama Program Director at the 55th Golden Bell Awards in Taiwan. In 2022, he won the Best Drama Program Director at the 57th Golden Bell Awards in Taiwan for his directorial work in "Danger Zone." In 2024, the second season of "The Victims' Game," directed by him, was released.