Background
Hung was born on the island of Pescadores in Taiwan and started painting at the age of four. Hung left her home-town to pursue her fine art study at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei and soon followed her MFA from the School of Cinema, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. Her first film VIOLA : the Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant, which took 22 months to produce, earned her a Student Academy Award and the cover of the Academy Report.
Hung continues working globally as a director and joined Ridley Scott Associates (RSA Films Asia) in 2009. Her commercial works includes music video for Grammy nominee Katie Herzig's first single "Free My Mind" in her 2011 album The Waking Sleep, "Imitation" for Mêlée's 2nd single from their album Devils and Angels and others.
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