Following a Paiwan chief home
Elaine Wei’s documentary was supposed to hit theaters last month when the outbreak struck — just the latest challenge in a rocky seven years of filming Kuljelje Azangiljan’s life story
By Han Cheung / Staff reporter
Elaine Wei (魏郁蓁) didn’t stop filming when villagers called the police on her or threatened her over the phone. Nor did she shut the project down after her production company ran out of funds to travel to the filming location in Pingtung.
These challenges, and many others, seemed to end after she managed to get The Way Home: The Call of the Azangiljan (阿查依蘭的呼喚, a documentary that depicts the struggles of a Paiwan chief and single mother, into theaters through a crowdfunding campaign and government assistance.