Taiwan Industry Sets Sights on World

variety.com:

Vivienne Chow The slate of offerings from Taiwan at this year’s European Film Market is a solid one, without a doubt. Among the 92 titles of films and projects, there are recent Golden Horse award-winning titles as well as new regional and international co-productions, both completed or works in-progress, in a diverse range of genres that come with promising premises, and a delegation of at least 10 sales companies that will present at the event in Berlin.

Such a strong line-up of films available for international sales can be understood as a snapshot of current state of Taiwan cinema.

There’s an emergence of a generation of new talent who dare to challenge the status quo of filmmaking and storytelling, and the ambition to reach an audience beyond the self-governed island is loud and clear.

This is especially true following the international attention that “A Sun” and “The Falls” had previously garnered, the growing number of co-productions with new countries and partners thanks to the strong boost of the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) through its funding support, as well as new exhibition windows available from international streaming platforms. “There has been a resurgence of funding in Taiwan productions in the past two years or so, plus signs of a rejuvenated audience interest locally in Taiwan productions, be them films or series,” Distribution Workshop’s CEO Jeffrey Chan says.