My Football Summer

My Football Summer (Chinese: 奇蹟的夏天; pinyin: Qíjī de xiàtiān; Wade–Giles: Ch'i-chi te hsia-t'ien, literally "A Miraculous Summer") is a 2006 documentary film directed by Taiwanese directors Yang Li-chou and Chang Rong-ji about a group of young aboriginal football players in pursuit of a dream. In the beginning of 2006, Yang was commissioned by Nike Taiwan to make a 5-minute long commercial for the incoming 2006 FIFA World Cup. During the filming, Yang felt the story was too touching to be fulfilled by only four short videos, and therefore he decided to extend the project into a feature-length documentary and asked his student and cameraman, Chang, to be the co-director. In Hualien, players of Mei Lun Junior High School (Chinese: 美崙國中)...