Estella Huang is a Taiwanese writer and film critic.
Biography
Estella Huang was born in Changhua County, Taiwan. She originally studied science at National Taiwan University but switched her major to sociology and graduated in 2000. She studied for a master's degree at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning of National Taiwan University but did not complete it. She became interested in films after attending the 2000 Golden Horse Film Festival. She started writing reviews in 2001 and she was invited by Liberty Times chief entertainment editor Lan Tzu-wei to contribute a film review column every weekend in March of that year, alongside Ting Huang and Chen Yi-chen. She currently writes reviews for Mirror Media. In 2005, she was selected for Berlinale Talents program of the 55th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2013, she published a collection of film reviews called Leaving Seat: Why Watch a Movie?. In 2018, she authoredthe novelThe Enigmatic Scene. Writer Huang Yang-chuan of Openbook said that the book as intellectually challenging and innovative with deep philosophical insights, while Zhan Zheng-de of Initium Media called it "a strange book". In 2020, she co-wrote the essay collectionUlysses' Dog with poet Sun Te-chin.