Taiwan Uses Democracy, Diversity as Film Industry Calling Card
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief In January, when Netflix unveiled its slate of Chinese-language original productions for 2024, all of them turned out to be Taiwanese.
Not Chinese. And not from Hong Kong, a territory that once produced over 300 movies a year in multiple Chinese dialects. That’s because, as China has made business dealings harder for Western entertainment and tech companies, they have scaled back their activities and have almost zero digital footprint in the People’s Republic.
Similarly, China’s satellite, Hong Kong, has in recent years added censorship and national security concerns to the entertainment equation, causing some films and TV shows — including the locally made Amazon series “Expats” — to omit Hong Kong from their release plans.
Taiwan, in contrast, has sought to fill the gap and to become the default production pole in the outward facing part of the Chinese-language TV sector.
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