A Town Called Success, which premiered in 2013, is a documentary produced by the Public Television Service team and a British director. The documentary records the unique fishing village beliefs and marine culture of Chenggong Township in Taitung, the life stories of fishermen, and the rise and fall of the spearfishing method. The HD images of international standards faithfully represented the beauty of the ocean and the journey of conquest as well as the bittersweet lives of fishermen who catch billfish by spearfishing. The Foundation supported this film to not only retain the most authentic images of the vanishing spearfishing technique and the village. We hope to lead the audiences to think in retrospect about issues such as the gradually-depleting ocean resources, the disappearing spearfishing culture, and sustainable fisheries resources through the research conducted by the Taiwanese scientists in the film.

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