- Best Documentary & Best Sound Design by Global Film Festival Awards
- Honorable Mention for Documentary Short by Festigious International Film Festival
- Best Sound Design by Canadian Cinematography Awards
- Best Producer & Best Sound by New York Cinematography Awards
- Best Art Director & Best Sound by European Cinematography Awards
Although the land only encompasses 0.027% of the world. It comprises upwards of 3.8% of the total species in the world. It is abundantly adorned with over 200 mountains, with peaks over 3,000 meters high, as well as seas that drop to a depth of 4,000 meters. It consists of cold landscapes similar to the Arctic.and tropical coastal forests with equator-like weather. Over its limited time, this complex compressed space evolved. to become a unique ecological environment filled with exclusive natural resources. Like a multidimensional diamond that glistens and shines through, this is our Taiwan, a world class “Island of Diverse Ecological Life.”
Bounded to the North by the East Sea, to the West by the Pacific Ocean, to the South by the Bashi Channel and to the East by the Strait, Taiwan stands out from the bodies of water like a hidden emerald, rich and brilliant like a diamond. Once it was called Formosa by the Portuguese sailors (1542) meaning beautiful island. Through the centuries, foreign colonialism has had its influence in nurturing the island, creating the characteristics of Taiwan today. Unlike other advanced countries that evolved over hundreds of years, Taiwan’s natural and cultural development can be described as transpiring over a compressed space and time.
Compressed space refers to the dramatic limited landscape of Taiwan, where vast differences in weather may be observed from the mountains, to the forests and to the sea. Between and around the flat lands and the high mountains, complex ecosystems are born to accommodate diverse biological species. Compressed time reflects Taiwan’s leap to a modern civilization in just over a 100 years. Taiwan’s transformation from an agricultural society at the end of the 19th century to the world’s most advanced high tech producer by the end of the 20th century is an amazing feat.
Through Eastern, Western, and Austronesian multi-cultural experiences and hardship, and through the constant endurance of the county’s harsh elements of extreme heat, typhoons, earthquakes and landslides, Taiwan’s tenacity, flexibility, courageousness, grit, and spirited enthusiasm are formed.
一個陸地面積僅占全球0.027%的狹小島嶼，不但擁有268座3000公尺以上的高山，以及有如北極的寒原景觀與赤道般的熱帶海岸林，還涵容了全球3.8%的物種，這就是世界級的「多樣生物之島」──台灣
台灣因非聯合國成員而被排除於國際社區外, 文建會(現文化部)於2002年邀集國內外專家選出12處包含文化與自然的「台灣世界遺產潛力點」，希望藉由「生動台灣」之首映及「神聖花園」展演，讓世界看見「台灣之美」!
婆娑之洋、美麗之島，台灣經歷數百年來不同種族與文化的耕耘，呈顯相當豐富的自然地理與人文歷史的特色。相較於其他先進國家，台灣獨特的自然與人文風貌，可用「壓縮的空間」與「壓縮的時間」來形容。
「壓縮的空間」指的是台灣山林至海域之間，以及平地至高山之間劇烈的景觀與氣候變化，在面積狹小的空間中，孕育複雜的生態環境，涵容多樣的生物物種。「壓縮的時間」意指台灣現代文明的躍遷，在短短百餘年間達成，台灣從19世紀末的農業社會轉型為20世紀末的高科技生產國，是在極快速與壓縮的時間內形成的；此外，台灣經歷多種文化衝擊的洗禮，在西方、東方以及南島文化的歷史邂逅交織中，發展成豐富、多元而特殊的文化形貌，而長期與大自然災害如：地震、颱風、土石流等搏鬥，則塑造了彈性與堅韌的性格，以及不屈不撓、勇往直前、屢挫屢起的生命力。