Lungnan Isak Fangas
Directing
Biography
Lungnan Isak Fangas is a Pangcah documentary filmmaker born in Chishang Township, Taitung County. His award-winning documentary Ocean Fever (2004) was invited to various film festivals in Taiwan, South Korea, and the United States. In 2010, he served as the executive producer on a series of documentaries about Typhoon Morakot, which had caused one of the most devastating flooding incidents in Taiwan. He also produced Taivalu, which won the Grand Prize and Best Documentary at the 2011 Taipei Film Awards. In addition, he has been the Manager of the Programming Department at the Taiwan Indigenous Television, the Chairperson of the Taipei Documentary Filmmakers' Union, and a juror at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Taipei Film Festival, Kaohsiung Film Festival, and Ministry of Culture film subsidy committee. Currently, he is an executive producer and director at Wonderful Time Films Production, aiming to solve the problems in Taiwan with films.
Known For
Hero! Hito! tells the true story of Chinese Taipei, the team that represents Taiwan in international baseball competitions, and their eleven-year climb from the heartbreak of the 2013 World Baseball Classic to a world championship win. With powerful tournament footage and candid player interviews, the film shows how an underestimated team overcame doubts, pressure, and tough odds to defeat Japan and unite fans in a moment of unforgettable pride. A heartfelt and uplifting documentary from director Lungnan Isak Fangas.
HERO! HITO!
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In 1999, the Indigenous Culture Club at the National Taiwan University held a series of annual ceremony activities as a tribute to traditional indigenous rituals. Unfamiliar with their native languages and cultures, however, the student organizers found themselves in an awkward position that brought them into conflict with the school administration. Where would they find the “salt”, an in-depth understanding of their cultural identities and backgrounds?
Looking for the Salt
My sister Pei-ling went through with an unexpected pregnancy. The child was nicknamed Angoo. In three years, Pei-ling broke up with the child's father, met a new boyfriend, left Angoo in my parents’ care to move in with her boyfriend, until she finally moved back in with our family due to the disapproval of her boyfriend's brother. The parent-daughter relationship was strained at first, but gradually things changed; understanding and love returned between them.
Angoo
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? 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.