Hsieh Meng Han
Film & Commercial Writer-Director
menghan.uk@gmail.com
Hsieh Meng Han, currently based in the UK, is an award-winning writer-director & filmmaker from Taiwan. She enjoys making dystopian, fantasy and magical realism films. She is a director whose films shed light on social issues from the world around her.
Her previous shorts, Bleeding Lies and HOME, and commercial, Kindness Takes You Forward, were accepted into multiple film festivals world-wide and had received nominations as well as awards. She has been writing and directing stage plays, short films and commercials for 17 years. In 2017, she came to the UK to pursue a master’s degree in Film Directing in Arts University Bournemouth and became a visiting tutor after graduation.
Meng Han now works as a Video Director at THG Studios in Manchester, directing and assisting the wider production team on commercials for multinational brands, including Disney, ASDA and more.
Kindness Takes You Forward:
Nahemi Kodak Film Festival (2021) | Won Best Cinematography
HOME:
Liverpool Film Festival (2021) | Nominated Best Short
Unrestricted View Film Festival (2021) | Nominated Best Cinematography
MOD Microfilm & Golden Short Film Contest (2020) | Won Best Production Design
IMDb New Filmmaker Award (2020) | Finalist
Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival (2020) | Nominated Best Actress (Fay Burwell)
Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival (2020) | Official selection
Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (2020) | Semi-finalist
Social World Film Festival (2020) | Official selection
Bleeding Lies:
Lund International Fantastic Film Festival (2020) | One of the seven finalists to compete for Méliès D’Argent OFFline Film Festival (2020) | Official selection