A native of the Taroko tribe, born in Tongmen tribe in Hualien, Rngrang is her first name and Hungul is her father’s name. Rngrang took up DV as a student in 2007 to make her first short film “Sense of Identity” to explore her own identity and ethnic issues. In 2009, after typhoon Morakot, she shot several films on ethnic issues in the various tribes in Pingtung, including two short films and a video Experimental films. Her works are mostly about female characters, and she has long been concerned with issues of ethnicity and gender, and she is currently a freelance filmmaker.
In 1918, during the Japanese colonial period, the tribes in the upper reaches of the Mugua River began to move to the river terraces in the middle reaches of the river, and in 1928, they became known as the Tongmen tribe. In less than a hundred years since the formation of the tribe, the tribal environment has changed with social…