Mayaw Biho, who calls himself half Amis, grew up in the Amis village of Cero (Chunjih) in Hualien County. He never lived away from the village until he went to study cinematography at Taipei's Shih Hsin University.
自稱半個阿美族人的馬躍從小在花蓮縣春日部落成長，直到就讀世新大學電影系後，才第一次離開部落。