Cheng Yu-chieh

Cheng Yu-chieh began to participate in filmmaking while he was a student at National Taiwan University majoring in Economics. He starred in a few student films and attempted scriptwriting. His then wrote, directed, and acted in his first short film Baby face, which won the Special Jury Prize at the 2002 Taipei Film Festival for Student Film Golden Lion Awards. His 2001 short film Summer, dream (石碇的夏天) won multiple awards, including Best Short Film at the 38th Golden Horse Awards and Best Narrative Feature at the 2002 Taipei Film Awards.{{Cite web |date=2023-03-17 |title=鄭有傑 |url=https://taiwancinema.bamid.gov.tw/Staff/StaffContent/?ContentUrl=12537 |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=台灣電影網}}

Cheng was able to procure NT$8 million of subsidy from the Taiwanese government's film funding program to make his first feature film Do over,{{Cite web |date=2003-12-01 |title=新年度電影輔導金得獎名單揭曉 |url=https://taiwancinema.bamid.gov.tw/InfoNew/InfoNewContent/?ContentUrl=459 |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=台灣電影網}} which is based on his award winning script (the 26th Excellent Screenplay Awards in 2003).

Cheng Yu-chieh and his wife Dai Hai-lun were married in June 2008. Dai Hai-Lun also works in the film industry and has served as the Director of the Domestic Affairs Department of the Golden Horse Awards.{{Cite web |title=金馬獎入圍片《親愛的房客》導演鄭有傑：我不想做一個逞強的爸爸 {{!}} 媽媽妞 |url=https://www.niusnews.com/=P2655su07 |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=妞新聞 niusnews |language=zh-tw}}

Cheng Yu-chieh's father is an overseas Chinese living in Japan. Cheng learned Japanese from a young age and is fluent in the language. He is also the translator of the Chinese version of the Japanese novel Still Walking.{{Cite web |title=怨久了，也愛了──解開爆炸的約束，鄭有傑《親愛的房客》從不幸的缺口探索幸福的入口 - 報導者 The Reporter |url=https://www.twreporter.org/a/2020-taipei-golden-horse-film-festival-cheng-yu-chieh-dear-tenant |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=www.twreporter.org |language=zh-TW}}

Cheng Yu-chieh is straightforward with his political views in his films in interviews. In 2011, his short film Unwritten rules in Ten Plus Ten, which was supported by Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, revealed his concern about the inevitable political consequences of embracing China's film market: loss of creative freedom. Wawa No Cidal (2015), a film Cheng co-directed with Lekal Sumi Cilangasan, is critical of the government's economic development plan that did not take into consideration the destruction of the environment and the indigenous people in the east coast of Taiwan. His TV series, Days We Stared at The Sun II, is set between 2013 and 2017, after the Sunflower Student Movement. When being asked whether he would compromise or revise his future works due to political considerations, he answered that “What motivated me is faith, not fear. I would not let fear decide my future.”{{Cite web |date=2017-09-02 |title=【全文】《爆炸2》貼近年輕世代 鄭有傑踩紅線反獲共鳴 |url=https://www.mirrormedia.mg/story/20170830insight002/ |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=鏡週刊 Mirror Media |language=zh-Hant}}

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