Actors/Actress
Earned a MA degree of Contemporary Performance Making at Brunel University in UK and trained at Ecole Philippe Gaulier International Theatre School in France, Vera Chen is a movie actress, theatre director and performance teacher in Taiwan. She is the performing coach for TV series The Teenage Psychic and film Mon Mon Mon Monsters. The films that she participated in as an actress include Boluomi and Ten Years Taiwan. She was nominated for Best New Director of the 56th Golden Horse Awards with Boluomi and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress of the 57th Golden Horse Awards with The Rope Curse 2.
Award
2025 The 62nd Golden Horse Awards - Best Supporting Actress "The Waves Will Carry Us"
Nominations
2020 The 57th Golden Horse Awards Best Supporting Actress "The Rope Curse 2"
2019 The 56th Golden Horse Awards Best New Director “Boluomi”
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| 2026 | The Wave Will Carry Us |
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Award
2025 The 62nd Golden Horse Awards - Best Supporting Actress
Nominations
2025 The 62nd Golden Horse Awards - Best Narrative Feature, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Film Score
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| 2025 | 96 MINUTES |
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Awards
2025 The 62nd Golden Horse Awards - Best Visual Effects
Nominations
2025 The 62nd Golden Horse Awards - Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Action Choreography, Best Sound Effects
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| 2025 | Praying Mantis |
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Award
62nd Golden Horse Awards (2025) – Best Animated Short Film
Nominations
28th Taipei Film Awards (2026) –
Best Animation, Best Original Film Song, Best Makeup & Costume Design
Venice Film Festival – Orizzonti (2025) – Short Film Competition – Official Selection
Toronto International Film Festival (2025) – Short Cuts Competition – Official Selection
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (2026) – LAB Competition – Official Selection
Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia (2025) – Short Film Competition – Official Selection
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (2025) – Animation Short Film Competition – Official Selection
London International Animation Festival (2025) – International Competition – Official Selection
SXSW South by Southwest Film & TV Festival (2026) – Animated Short Competition – Official Selection
Bucheon International Animation Festival (2025) – International Competition – Official Selection
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| 2024 | Stranger Eyes |
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Awards
2025 The 27th Taipei Film Awards Best Supporting Actor, Best Music
2024 The 61st Golden Horse Awards Best Original Film Score
Nominations
2025 The 27th Taipei Film Awards Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay
2024 The 61st Golden Horse Awards Best Narrative Feature, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best Sound Effects
2024 The 81st Venice International Film Festival Main Competition
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| 2021 | Born To Be Human |
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2021 Yakushi Pearl Award of Osaka Asian Film Festival (winner)
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| 2020 | The Rope Curse 2 |
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Nominations
2020 The 57th Golden Horse Awards - Best Supporting Actress (for Vera CHEN), Best Visual Effects (for Yuan XU, Min-Pin HUANG) and Best Makeup & Costume Design (for Lore SHIH, Kiara WANG)
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| 2019 | Boluomi |
| 2018 | Ten Years Taiwan |
