Shih-Ching Tsou

Film Producer, Director

MA, Media Studies

Shih-Ching Tsou is a New York City-based film-maker. Tsou’s first feature film was Take Out which she co-directed, co-wrote, co-produced with Sean Baker.  She went on to work with Baker on his third film, Starlet, as an executive producer and costume designer. The film had its world premiere at SXSW on March 11, 2012. Baker and Tsou collaborated again on Tangerine, where she served as a producer on the film as well as the costume designer, art department and additional camera operator, and made her acting debut in the film. It was filmed completely on iPhone 5s. The film had its world premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2015.

After Tangerine, Tsou produced Baker’s feature The Florida Project, the film premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 6, 2017, by A24. It won at least 38 and was nominated for at least 104 awards including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Willem Dafoe.  Tsou produced Baker’s follow-up Red Rocket, which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. In 2021, along with other members of the Red Rocket team, she received the Producer Award at the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards.

Tsou is a programmer for the Slamdance Film Festival and was a member of the jury in 2019.

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