The first to take away this award was the Tsai Ming-liang film The Wayward Cloud, which took the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival and was filmed in part at Kaohsiung's Dragon and Tiger Pagodas and alongside the Love River.
第一部獲得此重金獎勵的，是由蔡明亮導演、以蓮池潭及河堤社區為背景，獲得柏林影展銀熊獎的《天邊一朵雲》。