Student film about Dafen Incident wins top prize
By Hung Chen-hung
and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A student film on the Dafen Incident on Tuesday won the top prize at the Ministry of Education’s Aboriginal film festival.
Made by students at I-Shou University, War of the Moon (月戰) won the grand prize at the seventh Mata Awards, the ministry said.
Director Huang Hsiao-ching (黃孝擎), a university student of Bunun descent, said he decided to make the film after fellow Bunun students proposed shooting a movie on the Bunun historical experience during a short-film class.
Hu Chia-yu, second right, director of the documentary Sino nagran mo? and members of the production team pose at a location on Orchid Island in an undated photograph.