Private Project

Water is Life

Back in the era of no running water, people relied on springs and wells to feed generation after generation. Following the introduction of tapped water, people seemed to forget that water is an essential element in the sustenance of life.
In the face of continual water pollution incidents, we have a choice to either look away, or reflect on how to coexist together with water.

  • Ke Chin-Yuan
    Director
  • Liang De-Shan
    Writer
  • Ke Chin-Yuan
    Producer
  • Yu Li-Ping
    Producer
  • Ke Chin-Yuan
    Underwater Photography
  • Guo Dao-Ren
    Underwater Photography
  • Chen Yu-Hui
    Underwater Photography
  • Liu Qi-Leng
    Photography
  • Ke Chin-Yuan
    Photography
  • Chen Zhong-Feng
    Photography
  • Xu Zhong-Xi
    Photography
  • Chen Tien-Bao
    Photography
  • Chen Qing-Zhong
    Photography
  • Zhang Guang-Zong
    Photography
  • Jian Zheng-Jie
    Photography
  • Shen Hong-Teng
    Editing / Post Production
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    命水
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    53 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 1, 2015
  • Production Budget:
    40,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Taipei Film Festival
    Taipei, Taiwan
  • Chinese Documentary Festival
    Hong Kong
    Hong Kong
    Finalist
  • New York Festivals- International TV & Film Awards
    New York
    United States
    Silver World Medal--Television - Documentary/Information Program-Environment & Ecology
  • Golden Bell Awards
    Taipei
    Taiwan
    Finalist in Best Director of Non-fiction Programs
Director Biography - Ke Chin-Yuan

Ke was born in Shenkang Township, Changhua County in 1962. During the 12 years from 1993 to 2006, he had been a monthly columnist for some magazines of political, economic and ecological issues. His works include more than 200,000 images of environment, 400-plus in-depth feature reports, 3 books, and about 200,000 words of text files of fieldwork on Taiwan's environment. He has won or been nominated in over 70 awards, home and abroad, since 1997, and is currently a producer at the news department of Taiwan Public Television Service.

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Director Statement

With the mistaken belief that water has no connection with their lives and that there is a limitless supply of it, groundwater means nothing to the majority of people; and when pollution finds its way into the land, as long as it remains unseen it is deemed to be clean.
However, it is quite probable that such pollution is having a profound influence on our lives. Agriculture, industry and even water works use groundwater as a water source, accounting for one third of all our current water requirements. Every drop of water that we use from the land has probably traversed hundreds of thousands of years of time. Though water is exhaustible, people’s use of it is inexhaustible, so the moment we turn on the tap we’ve already entered into the fight for water.