SHOCK AND SADNESS AS DIRECTOR CHI DIES BEFORE NEW PROJECT|齊柏林"看見台灣"影響深遠 續集壯志未酬

Documentary film maker Chi Po-lin, best known for his 2013 documentary, "Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from above", shot from the air and showing both the beauty and destruction of Taiwan's landscape, has died in a plane crash. The documentary exposed chip maker ASE Global's pollution of Houjin River and the indiscriminate deforestation of hillsides and other issues, so that the-then Minister of the Interior, Lee Hong-yuan, announced that a national potential disaster map to remove illegal bed and breakfast hotels in the areas. Two days ago, Chi announced that he had started to film the sequel, but yesterday news of his death in an air crash was reported leaving people shocked and saddened. Kaohsiung's Houjin River was originally clear water, but was polluted by the country's largest wafer packaging plant and chip maker ASE Global's discharge of toxic waste. The documentary "Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from above", showed how industrial waste water was poisoning the waterway. Later Kaohsiung City's EPA fined the company NT$1 billion which makes the documentary filmmaker Chi Po-lin very grateful. ==CHI PO-LIN documentary film maker(2013.12.10.)== Many factories, they have the ability to protect the environment, they have the equipment to clean up polluted waste water, but to maximise profits, they want to save that little bit, the money for protecting the environment, and they want more profit, so they just sacrifice our land, our environment. In addition, Chi also used aerial photography to highlight Taiwan's overdevelopment of hill and mountain slopes such as Nantou's Chingjing farm district, filled up with ever more bed and breakfast hotels. Chi revealed the extent of the devastation of Chingjing, which created an uproar and forced the-then Minister of the Interior Lee Hung-yuan, to announce a national potential disaster map, in which those areas were to be protected under national law and the names of illegal guesthouses promised to be published. ==LEE HUNG-YUAN Fmr. Interior Minister(102.1.24.)== If there is a possibility of improving their safety, then we need to change all the supporting measures to do this. Not only is Nantou horribly over-developed, but Hualien's Taroko mountains have had their tops lopped off to mine cement, resulting in whole hill and mountainsides being deforested, and becoming in danger of collapse. However, the domestic mining law still has not been amended and this worried Chi immensely. == LEE GEN-CHENG Dir-Gen., Citizen of the Earth, Taiwan== When he started to film, he noticed how serious the deforestation caused by mining was, he filmed beautiful images, so people have strong impressions of the images of destruction and I think some of the most shocking and strongest images, are the ones of the cement mining areas. So that Taiwan's people understand their own past present and future, on June 8, Chia announced he would start shooting "Beyond Beauty 2". This would be filmed abroad, a cross-border aerial photography project, taking a year and a half, with production costs of NT$1 billion and ISO 4,000 resolution. Now, there is shock and sadness at the news of Chi's death in an air crash. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR 紀錄片導演、齊柏林，代表作「看見台灣」，在2013年上映後，影響深遠。後續，更因此揭發、日月光汙染「後勁溪」、以及山坡地「濫墾濫伐」等問題，也讓當時，任職內政部長的，李鴻源宣布，將依全國「災害潛勢地圖」，來拆除違法民宿。而在兩天前、齊柏林才宣布，將開拍「看見台灣2」，結果今天，卻傳出「墜機」罹難消息，令外界震驚、不捨。 高雄的後勁溪原本該是清澈的水流，卻被染成黃色，紀錄片「看見台灣」拍攝到後勁溪遭工業廢水毒害，其中汙染源頭之一，就是來自全國最大晶圓封裝廠日月光，後來高雄市環保局也重罰日月光一億多元，這讓紀錄片導演齊柏林很感慨。 ==紀錄片導演 齊柏林(102.12.10.)== 很多大廠 他們都有環境保護 處理汙水的能力跟設備 只是在這種利潤 極大化的情況之下 很多他們為了節省一點 環境保護的成本 要多賺一點錢 就犧牲了我們的環境 此外，齊柏林也用空拍鏡頭突顯台灣多年來、山坡地過度開發的問題，例如南投清境農場環境優美，民宿卻越蓋越多，齊柏林用鏡頭把清境的殘破完整呈現，引發社會譁然，逼得當時擔任內政部長的李鴻源，不得不宣佈將依據全國災害潛勢地圖，做為國土保育的執法標準，並承諾會儘快公布違法業者名單。 ==時任內政部長 李鴻源(102.1.24.)== 如果在一個有可能改善 讓它變安全的地方 我們就要把所有改善的 配套都要訂出來 不只南投有過度開發問題，花蓮太魯閣整片山頭更因為開採水泥、遭濫墾濫伐，變得光禿禿一片，不少山壁還有坍方現象，但是國內「礦業法」卻多年來沒有做修正，這也是最讓齊柏林憂心的事。 ==地球公民基金會執行長 李根政== 他開始拍的時候 他其實就一直注意到那個 採礦的問題很嚴重啦 那因為在他拍的 就是美麗的畫面 大家應該就會印象很深 但是那個破壞的畫面裡面 我覺得最令人怵目驚心的 就是那些礦區 為了讓台灣人了解自己的今世、前身及未來，齊柏林8號才宣布將開拍「看見台灣2」，這次將走出國外、啟動跨國空中拍攝計畫，預計花一年半時間，斥資1億元製作費，以4K以上規格拍攝，如今，卻傳出墜機罹難消息，外界只有震驚與不捨。 記者 綜合報導