自然作家、節目製作主持人、紀錄片編導、野地錄音師。由於喜歡傾聽自然,1997年走入自然,長期用聲音記錄台灣生態環境、並致力發展土地的聽音美學,2013年推動「寂靜山徑」計畫,喚起更多人關注自然聲景保護的價值,積極推動聲音的環境教育,創作版圖多元豐富,包括文字、聲音、影像、展覽、音樂會,藉由不同領域的跨界合作,來傳達對生態與土地的關心。曾在大愛電視台主持「愛悅讀」節目多年,引介國內外重要經典自然生態的保育著作,現任國立教育廣播電台「自然筆記」製作主持人、2015年創立「台灣聲景協會」,並任理事長。
國立政大新聞學系學士、美國雪城大學廣播電視電影系碩士。曾在經典雜誌、中國時報、國語日報科學版、環境電子報撰寫專欄,撰寫主題包括人與土地的情感建構,倡導「生態教養觀」,鼓勵父母陪伴孩子走入自然;並致力推動「海洋教育」及「生命教育」,作品「護送螃蟹過馬路」獲選為南一版小學五年級國語課文;近年積極投身於聲景科學與藝術人文教育,及持續進行自然生態的科普寫作。
Laila(Chin-Hui) Fan
Education:MS. Department of Television-Radio-Film, Syracuse University
Occupations: Writer and Director,Producer,Host
Book: The men meeting with Nature, The Journey of Ocean, Traveling along with the Lunar month…The Beckoning Silence, etc
Laila Fan(Chin-Hui Fan) is a famous documentary director, a nature writer, a radio and TV host in Taiwan. She started out her career as a documentaries filmmaker to spread her ideas about the environment. As a professional filmmaker, she directed and wrote the screenscripts for many ecology and wildlife documentaries. She has also written 7 books about how to love and respect the natural environment and inspire people to protect the world. Laila Fan has started to produce and recorded the nature sound for her radio program—“Nature Note” in National Education Radio, which is an environmental education program, which won many times National Golden Bell Awards as the Best Education and Culture Program and Best Host of Education and Culture Program. She has a numerous audience and great inference in this field. Over 19 years, she has tried to find a truly undisturbed and peaceful place in Taiwan. However a lot of places are never quiet again. So Laila Fan established the Soundscape Association of Taiwan in 2015 which is the second soundscape association in Asia, Laila Fan was voted as the general director of SAT. She said: the main goals for SAT are to use artistic and cultural points of view to achieve harmonious development between humans and the environment, and to promote policies for the conservation of biodiversity on the basis of bioacoustics and related research.” She believed through her program, people will get more information about what she wantsto share with the world. As a nature soundrecorder, she hopes she can contribute to protect the nature soundscape she beloved in this land.