Chang yeh–hai shia man

I was born on an island called Lanyu (Orchid Island), located southeast of Taiwan. The ocean surrounds my island is the place where I grew up and where I work. Because of the tight connection I have with the ocean, I build the topics and themes of my production around the issues relating to the sea.

Che’lu

The film, based on the concept and core idea of “tracing and finding,” and using the protagonist, Ronald ACFALLE’s dream of constructing a traditional canoe and sailing it to Taiwan as the main narrative, to unveil a period of time when the colonized Austronesian Che’lu (“Brothers” in CHamorro dialect) built and sailed canoes to the oceans, as a way to…