Expanded Taiwan Content Market Opens With Talk of Money and Opportunity: ‘We Have Diversity and the Creative Freedom to Tell Those Stories’

variety.com:

Taiwan Creative Content Fest as a stepping stone for local and Asian creators to mount the world stage. “We have great ambitions for TCCF in the years going forward,” said Sue Wang, deputy minister at Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture.

She was speaking at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, a new venue in a high-tech eastern suburb of the Taiwan capital. The event runs Nov.

5-8 and is backed by government-affiliated agency the Taiwan Creative Content Agency. A substantial sum — some NT7.5 million ($235,000) — is on offer as prizes for the centerpiece project pitching event, according to Homme Tsai, chair of TAICCA. “People will reach out to each other saying – ‘show me the money, lets collaborate,'” Tsai said.

Money was also a theme for the deputy minister. “TCCF has risen from a humble past, from a relatively small exhibition platform and market to one of the leading B2B events in the world.