Before becoming as a screenwriter, Mag Hsu used to work as a theater playwright, director, and manager. She believes that to work as a screenwriter, one has to give up a few things — a certain degree of freedom and perfection, for example.
Watan Tanga is an Atayal elder and master in the chant-singing art of the tribe's ancient language. In 2012, Taoyuan City honored his talent as an oral passer-down of his traditional art, and that same year the Ministry of Culture named him a preserver of an important traditional art and a "living national treasure."