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Diamond Marine World

Adventure, Family Feature

Taiwan|2022|Mandarin / Burmese|155 min

Director: Hsiu Yi HUANG

Trailer

Festivals & Awards

2023 Taipei Film Festival
Grand Prize & Best Documentary
 

2022 Women Make Waves Int’l Film Festival
Silver Award & Audience Award

Synopsis

With 20 years of experience in shrimp farming in Taiwan, Du came to Myanmar alone. Even though he saw only endless wilderness before him, he still believed, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going,” nothing is impossible on this earth. He did not expect what followed were drugs and guns.

 

A Burmese-Chinese girl, Sue, who had the same dream for shrimp farming, decided to settle down in the shrimp farm his father had started to develop 20 years ago, after the marriage to her Burmese husband, Jojo. She was determined to carry out the unfulfilled ambition of her father. Struggling to confront the false accusation, Du encountered Sue by chance. Together, they decided to farm and rear shrimps in the wilderness and build their “Diamond Marine World.”

 

It took five years to shoot and produce this film, recording the turns of humanity and the conflicts falling one after another as the rain in Myanmar.

Director: Huang Hsiu-Yi

Graduating from the Graduate Institute of Documentary & Film Archiving (TNNUA), she has curated film festivals and participated in producing featured and experimental films. She is currently the director and producer of documentary films. She prefers to stay in the countryside more than big cities.

 

Her works are highly associated with her background and focus on women, adolescents, and environmental issues. She traveled along the Mekong River through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam in 2015. She returned to Taiwan and began the shooting plan for Diamond Marine World. The film records the life and conflicts of a Taiwanese working in Myanmar and presents how people with different values struggle to get rich. She collaborates with experimental film directors to film young comic book artists in Taiwan.

2004 《She Is Dancing》

2008 《Dialog in Spring》

2009 《Grandma's Ring》

Crew

Director HUANG Hsiu-Yi

Cinematographer WANG Chen-Yu / HUANG Hsiu-Yi

Editor TSAI Yi-Fen

Original Music Zavi TSAI

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