Award: Documentary Award

Time: 2004
Place: Lan Island, Taidong, Taiwan , China

Hanging isolated on the sea to the south of Taiwai, Lan Island is a pure, simple, beautiful and mysterious island, honoured by artists as Ruby on the Pacific Ocean. The Tao people have to fight with rough sea, bad weather and the up and down of low air pressure for survival.

After the Tao people work together to help building a canoe, there will be a fiesta ceremony on the first day when the ship get on the water. Many people gather together to attend the ceremony, are given pork and taro, then make an joint effort to carry the ship to the sea shore, and finally row the boat for a week before returning the boat to the seashore, thus praying for big amount of fishing as well as returning safe.