Lecturer in Directing (Fiction)
Marina H.S. Pu is an academic, director of television, and filmmaker. She has directing experience in the TV industry and independent filmmaking in Europe, the UK, and Asia. She has also spent ten years as an assistant professor and senior lecturer teaching in media and filmmaking departments. She coordinates the filmmakers' workshops and cultural exchange programmes with universities in Croatia and Spain. She is currently a member of the UCA Department of Film Production team.
Bio
Marina obtained an MA in cinema and television production from the ECA of The University of Edinburgh, UK (2008), and a BA in fine arts from Taipei National University of Arts (National Art Institute). She is pursuing a PhD at The University of Reading in 2023 in the multidisciplinary fields of cinema and cognitive psychology.
Since 2004, she has worked in the film and television industries in the UK, Europe, Taiwan, South Korea, and Mainland China. She has also worked on projects with a number of European film associations and corporations, including those in Portugal, Germany, and Lithuania, throughout her career. Numerous international film festivals, as well as solo and group exhibitions at galleries, cinemas, and cultural centres in Taiwan, Japan, England, Spain, France, and Italy have chosen her films.
Her current projects include the Indian Himalayan documentary “Pahari” and the Portuguese documentary “Disquiet Identity”.
Research outputs
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marina-Pu
- 5th International Conference on Research in Humanities (ICRHCONF) and selected as a highlighted speaker at The university of Cambridge, 26-28 August 2022.
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.33422/5th.icrhconf.2022.08.300 (Double Blind Peer Review) - 11th” Image Work” Conference at The University of Texas Austin, 22-24 September, 2022.
- '4D sound', English Island journal, 2018.
- Art critics and other Journalism articles, ARTCO magazine, 2004, Short Fiction “Romance”, published in ‘Star’ novelist magazine, 1998.
Research statement
How to quantify creativity? This is my interest for now!
Key words: non-linear storylines, nonlinear narrative writing and editing, neuroscience and brain activity, author and audience, experimental psychology, data analysis, metaverse technology.
Research supervision
I’m fascinated by narrative storytelling in fiction and documentary, particularly the director’s skills and visions.
I also enjoy supervising the production of non-dialogue fiction with a soundtrack and a dance film. Meanwhile, I’m interested in the cinema and psychology sectors, particularly audience engagements and the relevant perception. I’m looking forward to seeing all the interesting projects.
- Fellowship of The Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.
- The jury for the committee for the Taipei Citizen Film Festival and the Taipei city government, 2021.
- 2002 – “Dance in Taipei”, 3rd prize at Taipei Film Festival.
- 2003 – Digital film “How to Be an Angel”, nominated at the Taipei National Film Festival.
- 2006 – Digital film “Barge”, selected for the Leicester International Short Film Festival, England, UK.
- 2006 – Animation film: “Port of Return”: scriptwriter teamwork, 1st prize at the International Macau Film Festival, China.
- 2007 – 16mm film “Long Distance”, selected by London fuji film festival and BBC Belfast.
Funding:
- Taipei artist – residency, 2002.
- New Taipei filmmaker – residency, Benjo 435, 2010.
- Era Film company and Baltic Sea Region Project, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2011.
- The Documentary Project of Baltic Sea and Rostock. Germany Tourism Association, 2014.
- Taiwan Ministry of Culture: Film productions in Lisbon, Portugal, 2016.
- India Pahari Documentary project, UK, 2019.