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


Money opportunity and creative freedom were touted as Taiwan strengths at the TCCF opening presentation.

Officials and filmmakers were on hand Tuesday in Taipei to hail the Taiwan Creative Content Fest as a stepping stone for local and Asian creators to mount the world stage. 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. Taiwan has increased its profile within the East Asian film and TV production scene in recent years, partly due to funding and structural efforts made by the Taiwanese authorities, its financial support and agencies like TAICCA.

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