Public Television liked what they saw, and Cheng argued that rather than turning it over to someone else to direct, he would do the best job of capturing its true feeling.
公視喜歡這個劇本，鄭文堂想，與其讓其他導演掌舵，還不如自己較能掌握劇本想表達的感覺，這於是成為他執導的首部劇情片：《蘭陽溪少年》。