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- February 2010, the National Concert Hall staged the multimedia musical production, On The Road. It tells the story of the internationally renowned conductor, Chien Wen-Pin, searching for his childhood aboriginal nanny. One of the play's organisers, Taiwan Colors Music (TCM), defined this work as "the first original, aboriginal musical in Taiwanese music history". Adding new material, the director's cut of On The Road goes beyond the National Concert Hall's official documentary to reveal a diverse array of opinions through expanded interviews. A key theme emerges from these dialogues, that of the status of aboriginal music itself: If it is not accepted and performed in the National Concert Hall, can it still be considered legitimate music?
- The rock 'n' roll band "TOTEM" was formed seven years ago. Right before the second album released, lead singer and drummer determined to leave the group. Band members tried to work out the solution. When they recalled the time they took part in the Music Competition in 2003 they realized that the roots to the reason of apart could be traced back to that time.
- What is it about the Ho-Hai Yan Rock Festival that attracts so many bands? Called The Ocean Music Festival in Chinese, this annual rock and roll contest was first organized by Taipei county in 2000. What is it about the festival that keeps the bands coming back year after year? What is that attracts hundreds of thousands of fans to pour into The Ocean to hear the music, eagerly awaiting next year's festival as soon as this year's is over? During the three-day festival, the Indie Music Awards was the most interesting activity that attracted most attention. All the bands striving to succeed at this summer event comes with its own attitude, its own story. But what they have in common is a striving for the chance to get up on their stage and dazzle hundreds of thousands of onlookers, just like The Ocean does every year.
- Taiwan Colors Music is Taiwan's biggest independent record label, which launched the careers of Paudull, Samingad Blubluone, Panai Kusui and Nanwan Sisters as well as the annual Ho-hai-yan Rock Festival that initiated the golden age of Taiwanese bands around the year 2000. Looking back on the labels' ups and downs, founder Chang Ga-tau faces a tough choice on whether or not to sell the company to a Chinese buyer.
- Whether the frustrated rockers can stand on their dignity again in music? How the band evoked people's common memory after its standpoint of rock is questioned. All struggles and imbroglios come from a huge stage that is set up on every July at the northeast beaches of Taiwan.
- Three years ago, my sister Pei-Ling went through with an unexpected pregnancy, and the child was nicknamed Angoo. Within a three year period, she broke up with child's father (Cheng-Yu), met a new boyfriend (Yu-Tsun), left her own family to move in with Yu-sun, and finally moved back in with our family again as a result of disapproval and opposition by Yu-Tsun's brother. Back at home, parent-daughter relationship was strained at first, but this changed and understanding returned between them. "Angoo" portrays the drastic change in family value so that Angoo was finally able to grow up healthily in a loving family.
- A five-day festival is held on the campus of National Taiwan University by Indigenous Soundtrack Club to train the initiates with events including a carol service, an evening party, an indigenous language speech contest, a rite of passage and a harvest festival. Numerous conflicts arise between the festival events and nearby activities, such as a rowdy concert subverting the solemnity of the festival and the taboo against outsider participation (especially of Han people). In the speech contest, contestants recite their scripts so stiffly that one reviewer comments, "there is no 'salt' in the speech of these indigenous language speakers," which inspires the title of the film. Wen-Ling Lin, Professor at National Chiao Tung University, has pinpointed the issue discussed in the film: the journey of looking for the salt in the loss of mother tongue is the process of finding identity and constructing meanings.
- On May 25 in 2002, 19 crew members and 206 passengers on China Airlines Flight CI 611 from Taipei to Hong Kong were killed in an air crash, which occurred off the north-eastern coast of Mudou Island at 7:28 GMT. Xu Huiting was a flight attendant on the plane one year ago. Her family was traumatized and trepidation lingers as memories stir. Gathering and rituals have been organized to help them recover from the trauma with mixed results. Some have got over the shock through group therapy, yet Xu remains on the beautiful a trip in their memory. She has never left and will always be with them. The path of death and the path of youth should never cross, but what would happens when they do?
- This short film is made for protest petrochemical plant ''Kuo-Kuang'' in Taiwan. In the film, we used hilarious rich man's voice over to indicate the absurd petrochemical development. Such as '' If you want to make big money, don't even care about how you make it, if you want to drive fancy car and live in a luxury house, just be greedy and heartless.'' The environmental cost is vast and paid by whole nation.