A T Beaune

BIOGRAPHIE

A T BEAUNE comes to cinema through a professional career in music and stage performance, and—before all that—a high school gig as a cinema usher. A T Beaune is writer and director of a new short film, 'Melodia,' now in international release. The film, made in collaboration with Laticia Fan of f/Lash Productions, stars Yi-An Chen with Aaron Don Don, Dora Lo, Anna Tian, Manav Mehta, Hank Yu, and Jia Lin Chen. Pianist Cheng Hua Weng plays music by Ludwig van Beethoven. The film has been included in the ShortFest 2023 Film Market Video Library, an adjacent resource of the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival (USA). It has been awarded honours, prior to screening, in the 2024 Mannheim Arts and Film festival. A T Beaune plays a British tea merchant in Chunyang Lin’s 'Gold Leaf,' a Netflix dramatic series that follows a Hsinchu tea-growing family through Taiwan’s tumultuous twentieth century. Based on real-life events, 'Gold Leaf' was filmed on location at numerous historical sites. The series stars Cindy Yu Han Lien, Xing Li, James Sheng-hao Wen, Tzu-Chien Kuo, Jag Huang, Wilson Hsu and Simon Hsueh with Aaron Don Don (and eye-popping vintage cars and clothes) in a story by Juliana Hsu and Guo-Hua Huang. The minimalist short comedy 'Shoe Story' (2021), Beaune’s debut film, earned multiple international awards within weeks of release. The film stars Taiwan talents Dora Lo (Best Actress, Tagore IFF-B), James C H Lo and Wen-Chieh Chi (Ensemble Acting, Rotterdam Independent Film Festival). 'Shoe Story' has won awards in the categories of International Short Film, Short Comedy, Experimental Film, Mobile Film and Postmodern Film. The Indo French International Film Festival extended additional recognition to Tzu-Xiang Chen for Sound Design, Holly Yifang Chou for Single Shot Film, Boxing Huang for Trailer Editing, and A T Beaune as Debut Filmmaker and Screenplay Writer. A T Beaune is author and director of 'Taiwan Photowalk,' a photo story based on Modest Mussorgsky’s 'Pictures from an Exhibition.' Mandy Weng stars in the series which was shot over two years in locations across the country. 'Taiwan Photowalk' has screened twice in Taiwan’s National Concert Hall as well as in the National Palace Museum and Taichung and Tainan venues. Apo Ching-Hsin Hsu and the NTNU Symphony Orchestra performed Ravel’s orchestration in the world premiere; Shao-Hsun Chang performed the original suite in the premiere of the version for piano. A T Beaune wrote, directed, and acted in '1001 Nights: The Radio Play,' an adaptation of his short story based on the medieval classic. '1001 Nights' was produced by ICRT FM100 for national broadcast by Tim Berge and features sound design by Ping Lu. The cast featured Chia-Hsuan Lin, Paul Batt, and Ruth Landowne Giordano along with the author. A T Beaune’s 'Flight 109: a short travelogue for stage,' based on music by Taiwanese composer Sandra Tavali and poetry by William Shakespeare, premiered at the 2019 Taipei Shorts festival produced by John Brownlie. The author directed in partnership with dancer and singer Lyra Angelique. The cast featured Dora Lo, Chase Lo, Jacklyn Kuah and Michelle Hsu. A T Beaune’s adaptation of the C F Ramuz script for 'The Soldier’s Tale (L’histoire du soldat),' with music by Igor Stravinsky, was staged by Chia-Hsuan Lin conducting the NTNU Chamber Players in Taipei. Beaune played The Devil alongside Yi-An Chen in the title role. A T Beaune’s first professional stage performances came as music director in collaborations on operas, musicals, and plays in Baltimore, Washington, and Memphis theatres. His screen acting debut came with an uncredited background appearance as a Portuguese merchant in Martin Scorsese’s 'Silence,' filmed in Taiwan. A T Beaune studied creative writing at the Johns Hopkins University while completing doctoral studies in music. His first novel garnered a Baltimore Writers Alliance award for fiction and his humorous verse has been featured in national radio broadcasts. Today his e-books are stocked by major booksellers and his poetry appears in Taiwan and American collections. His song lyrics have been set to music by John Budrevo. An artist of Burgundian Gothic and American Creole heritage, A T Beaune now resides in Taiwan. About his days as a cinema usher, he shares this insider observation: ‘Saturday night crowds are like no other.’

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