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TCCF unveils pitch projects headed for Taipei; 60% of 700 submissions involved international & co-production – TAICCA
15 September 2025
International submissions and co-productions involving Taiwan accounted for 60% of entries for this year’s TCCF Pitching, which takes place in Taipei in early November, says event organiser, the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA). The 2025 edition of the annual pitch-fest received almost 700 submissions from 44 countries.
94 projects were selected for the pitch, which takes place as part of the 2025 Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) that runs from 4-7 November.
Top submitting countries (ex-Taiwan) were Japan, Thailand, the U.S., Korea and Singapore. TAICCA said international submissions underscored TCCF’s growing recognition on the global stage as well as rising cross-border collaboration.
Announcing this year's line-up, TAICCA said literary adaptations and international co-productions were driving global trends.
The official selection includes “Taiwan Travelogue,” an adaptation of Yang Shuang-zi’s U.S. National Book Award-winning novel; “The Ones I Killed and the Ones Who Killed Me,” adapted from Higashiyama Akira’s acclaimed novel; “LOMÁ”, the new documentary from Berlinale Teddy Award winner Huang Hui-chen; and animated series, “A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts,” adapted from Asian American food writer Ying Chang Compestine's young adult horror collection.
The "Project" section of the pitch features 56 projects across a wide range of genres and styles, including “Second Woman”, which won both the FriDay Video Original Story Award and the TVBS Storytelling Impact Grant Award in the “Story to Screen” segment of the 2023 TCCF.
Series selected for the Project section also include Mediacorp Singapore's co-pro "Rescue Life" with Sky Limit Pictures and Keepin Joy Tech, and Rein Entertainment Productions' "Dose" from the Philippines; Terao Tetsuya’s best-selling novel “Spent Bullets”, to be co-adapted into a feature film with Taiwanese filmmaker Henry Tsai; “Goodbye My Love”, Calendar Studios’ Ta...
International submissions and co-productions involving Taiwan accounted for 60% of entries for this year’s TCCF Pitching, which takes place in Taipei in early November, says event organiser, the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA). The 2025 edition of the annual pitch-fest received almost 700 submissions from 44 countries.
94 projects were selected for the pitch, which takes place as part of the 2025 Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) that runs from 4-7 November.
Top submitting countries (ex-Taiwan) were Japan, Thailand, the U.S., Korea and Singapore. TAICCA said international submissions underscored TCCF’s growing recognition on the global stage as well as rising cross-border collaboration.
Announcing this year's line-up, TAICCA said literary adaptations and international co-productions were driving global trends.
The official selection includes “Taiwan Travelogue,” an adaptation of Yang Shuang-zi’s U.S. National Book Award-winning novel; “The Ones I Killed and the Ones Who Killed Me,” adapted from Higashiyama Akira’s acclaimed novel; “LOMÁ”, the new documentary from Berlinale Teddy Award winner Huang Hui-chen; and animated series, “A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts,” adapted from Asian American food writer Ying Chang Compestine's young adult horror collection.
The "Project" section of the pitch features 56 projects across a wide range of genres and styles, including “Second Woman”, which won both the FriDay Video Original Story Award and the TVBS Storytelling Impact Grant Award in the “Story to Screen” segment of the 2023 TCCF.
Series selected for the Project section also include Mediacorp Singapore's co-pro "Rescue Life" with Sky Limit Pictures and Keepin Joy Tech, and Rein Entertainment Productions' "Dose" from the Philippines; Terao Tetsuya’s best-selling novel “Spent Bullets”, to be co-adapted into a feature film with Taiwanese filmmaker Henry Tsai; “Goodbye My Love”, Calendar Studios’ Taiwanese version of Korean drama, “Do It One More Time”; and “Diary of Summer”, pitched by Japan’s ROBOT Communications, the production company behind “Godzilla Minus One”. The documentary session will include “Atomic Paradise".
30 original published texts were selected for the “Story” segment.
Highlights include “A Sketch of a Female Serial Killer: Taiwan's Only Female Death Row Prisoner and the Murders that Shocked a Nation”, which won the Taipei International Book Exhibition Grand Prize in the Non-Fiction category and was also selected for the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair.
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