Film Festival_The Vast Deep Blue Ocean

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Scenes of Life
The 2015 Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival

Co-hosted by: NCCU Art & Culture Center & Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival
Venue: Audiovisual Theater, NCCU Art & Culture Center

The Vast Deep Blue Ocean 

  • Date & Time: 15/03/2016 19:00-20:50
  • Layway Dalay│2015│70 min│Taiwan│8mm HD│ COLOR│G│Chinese & English subtitles
  • The director is invited for post-show talk.

When Director Laway was small, his father began working as crew on fishing boats out of the port of Kaohsiung. All through his youth, Laway's mother took him by Kinmen bus from Taitung to Kaohsiung to visit his father every year or two. Amis people have worked on fishing boats for years, and such family visits were common in the years from 1940 to 1960. With permission granted in April of 2013, Director Laway picked up his camera to film six of the Amis crew members. He boarded a Taiwanese ocean-going ship on Bona Bei island - an American possession in the South Pacific. With this ship he followed a purse seiner for 20 days, filming the crew's hard work and difficult life. To conclude, how was Laway's father able to get through twenty years of his working career as a crew member? The director's only assistant is the son of a photographer - Mayaw‧Laway.

Layway Dalay│Director
Laway Dalay was born in 1961 to the Amis Tribe of Taitung, Taiwan. After graduating from a vocational high school, he went to work in northern Taiwan at age 18. He worked as a draftsman, as a model maker, and as an equipment operator. Before his military service, he was lucky enough to be a restaurant singer for six months. During his childhood, he was passionate about painting and insisted on working with art-related items after his military service. Fortunately, he volunteered and received an opportunity to be an interior designer assistant. He set up his own interior design studio at age 27. At age 38, he began to study with Wu Yii-feng, a distinguished teacher of film. Since then, he's been filming stories of the Amis Tribe.