國慶影片玉山誤植瑞士山區  廠商道歉 Head of Alaya Films apologizes for ‘mixing Up’ Yushan and Alps

The sub-contractor of Taiwan’s National Day film attracts censure from both sides across the aisle for mistaking Alps and Yushan. Plan-blue legislator also question the company’s abilities to win multiple contracts from the governments, including one of Twin Oaks, Taiwan’s de facto embassy in the US.

Presenter:Taipei City Councilor You Shui-hui is questioning how the video production company that included footage of the Swiss Alps in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' National Day video has won so many MOFA tenders when the company has existed only a few short years. The ministry denies speculation that it assigned the projects to the company through restricted tenders.

After it was pointed out aerial footage supposedly of Yushan was actually the Swiss Alps in a Ministry of Foreign Affairs-produced National Day video, the head of the video production company apologized, saying the mixup was caused by how similar Yushan is to the Swiss Alps. Former Democratic Progressive Party Secretary-General Luo Wen-chia says the production company is "lying" unless it is in the habit of using copyrighted material without permission. Luo says an apology isn't enough.

Luo Wen-chia, Former DPP Secretary-General: “I don't think this was a mistake. If you don't handle this properly, you'll make a lot of people think they can use copyrighted material for free and then claim ignorance if they get caught. (The Ministry of Foreign Affairs) should ban directors or agencies that do this.”

Alaya Films was incorporated on Oct. 6, 2018. Immediately afterwards, it got the Twin Oaks project from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Lee Kui-mu, Alaya Films Founder: “In 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the Twin Oaks project. It was then that I decided to open a company. I called it Alaya Films. After that, I successfully won the bid for the Twin Oaks project.”

Alaya Films has produced numerous projects for the ministry. Taipei City Councilor You Shu-hui believes the National Day video project was a restricted tender. You says if the ministry had such faith in Alaya's abilities, how did this mistake happen?

You Shu-hui, Taipei City Councilor (KMT):” If the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided on a restricted tender because it has such a deep understanding of Alaya's capabilities and thinks it has such special standards, should the ministry take full responsibility for this embarrassment?”

The ministry says it held a public, not restricted, online tender for the project that was open to any and all companies with professional multimedia production capabilities. The ministry is adamant this was not a project given to a designated production company, which it says is different than a restricted tender.

Joanne Ou, Spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs:” A public restricted tender means we welcome bids from all professional video companies with multimedia capabilities. This tender was of course held online and open to the public. It was not a so-called commissioned project from a designated company.”

The ministry maintains the tender process was open, transparent, and legal and says it will pursue penalties under contract law. It also says it will conduct a thorough evaluation of this "mistake" and draft refined production-quality review mechanisms.

外交部委外製作的"2021，台灣有你"國慶短片，其中玉山主峰空拍畫面，卻錯用了瑞士山區畫面，負責製作的阿賴耶電影公司道歉，表示是畫面太相似誤植。不過前民進黨秘書長羅文嘉就指出電影公司應該是"說謊"，因為如果取得著作權使用，怎麼會分不清楚素材?認為有侵權疑慮，不能道歉了事。

前民進黨秘書長 羅文嘉：「我不認為這是疏忽，如果你沒有好好處理，其實會讓很多人存著僥倖的心理，想說我不想花錢去買版權，然後我就用蒙混過去，沒有人發現就算了。(外交部)必要時可以求償，類似的導演或是單位應該是永不錄用。」

不只素材來源引起疑慮，阿賴耶電影公司2018年10月6日設立登記，當時就已快速爭取到了外交部雙橡園的影片製作。

阿賴耶電影公司創辦人 李奎穆：「2019年的時候，剛好外交部有一個案子，就是這個雙橡園，然後那時候，我就決定創立這間公司，叫阿賴耶電影有限公司，然後就去爭取這個案子雙橡園。」

阿賴耶電影公司後來也陸續接下多件外交部案子，台北市議員游淑慧就質疑國慶影片案子是採"限制性招標"，不是公開招標，如果是相信阿賴耶公司特別獨到，怎麼會出現這樣錯誤?

國民黨台北市議員 游淑慧：「如果外交部這麼了解阿賴耶的能力，認為他是有特殊的水準，所以要用限制性招標的話，那今天所出的所有的包，是不是外交部就要負全責。」

外交部澄清，經公開評選的限制性招標，是指具備製作專業影音能力的製片廠商都可以投標，本案採上網公告開放投標，而不是外界誤以為由特定廠商承包招標案，這和一般「限制性招標」意義不同。

外交部發言人 歐江安：「所謂經過公開的限制性招標的意思就是說，我們歡迎所有承辦專業影音能力的，製片廠商都可以來投標，那我們這案子當然是上網公開，來開放投標，而不是所謂的，我們去指定一個特定廠商，來承包這個標案。」

外交部再次強調，招標過程一切公開透明、程序合法，將依據合約條款追究相關責任。對於國慶影片發生疏失，除了深刻檢討，未來也將研議精進製作影片品質的審查機制。