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Even as their Pangcah co-directors negotiate settler-indigenous partnerships within Han Taiwanese-dominated media structures and audience expectations, navigating cross-cultural and translingual hybridity through community relations marked by departures and loss, the films demonstrate how Indigenous co-creators can leverage different forms of prized knowledge, skill, and creativity (athletic, agricultural, musical, storytelling, and multilinguistic) to amplify issues of name rectification, community revitalization, and self-determination within Sunflower Movement discourses, thereby refining and remixing strategies of Indigenous presence and resilience outlined by Indigenous Studies scholars like Gerald Vizenor (2008) and Chadwick Allen (2010).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPresenter Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrian Bernards is associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures and comparative literature at the University of Southern California, specializing in Sinophone and Southeast Asian literature and cinema, inter-Asia cultural studies, and translingual postcolonial studies. 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