Talent Guide

Yu-Hao Su

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Grants and Awards 2020, Producing Lab 2020, Project Involve 2018

Bio

Yu-Hao (David) Su’s filmmaking journey began on Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, where he worked in the art department, before going on to work on major Taiwanese blockbusters such as Kano. Su is an alum of AFI Conservatory’s producing MFA program. He has produced numerous shorts including Fata Morgana (Clermont-Ferrand premiere), The Disappointment Tour (AFI FEST) and Frameline Completion Fund winner Bobbyanna. He was also a producer on Test Pattern, Jury Award Winner for Narrative Feature Competition at New Orleans Film Festival, and associate producer on the first season of Two Sentence Horror Stories. He line-produced The Cloud In Her Room, which won the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020. He is currently developing his first Taiwanese feature Run Zombie Run, which won Taipei New Horizon Screenplay Award at the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion in 2019. David also participated in Film Independent’s signature diversity program, Project Involve, in 2018.

Current Project

The Mushroomers

Logline

A recently widowed mycologist attempts to heal a contaminated old-growth forest in Washington State using only super fungi—but Mother Nature and the mechanics of her own mourning prove far fickler than anticipated.