Yang Chun-Kai, an independent filmmaker and film educator, graduated from the Department of Radio and Television in National Taiwan University of Arts, and
the New York City University Media Art Production M.F.A program. Yang has worked as director, director of photography, and editor for a range of productions, from films to commercials. "Path of Destiny" is his first feature-length documentary work.
Yang is devoted to cultivating a new generation of aboriginal filmmakers. As a lecturer in the Department of Indigenous Languages and Communication at the National Dong-Hua University, he led a television team in which aboriginal students documented social changes, cultural rise and fall, and the stories of the youth in villages.
Path of Destiny is a documentary about a group of Sikawasay from the Amis tribe of Hualien, Taiwan, known as the people who possess gods. This fate calls upon them to maintain traditional rituals to serve the tribe, living by way of interaction with the gods. We followed Panay Mulu, who has been with them for more than 20 years,…