TIFF Industry platform to feature a Taiwan Cinema booth for the first time.
Taiwan is to debut at Toronto’s TIFF Industry section with a hefty slate of 82 films and projects, including its submission for best international feature at the Oscars, Goddamned Asura.
The slate will be presented by the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (Taicca), which will also host the first Taiwan Cinema booth and push its position as a valuable co-production partner through attractive funding schemes.
Goddamned Asura will receive a market screening on September 11 with director Lou Yi-An in attendance of a post-screening networking event. International sales are...
Taiwan is to debut at Toronto’s TIFF Industry section with a hefty slate of 82 films and projects, including its submission for best international feature at the Oscars, Goddamned Asura.
The slate will be presented by the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (Taicca), which will also host the first Taiwan Cinema booth and push its position as a valuable co-production partner through attractive funding schemes.
Goddamned Asura will receive a market screening on September 11 with director Lou Yi-An in attendance of a post-screening networking event. International sales are...
- 9/9/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
The Huang family and Pili International Multimedia are back on the big screen, two decades since their feature debut Legend of the Sacred Stone, and if the end credits of Chris Huang’s Demigod: The Legend Begins are to be believed, they have many more chapters in-store for their hero Su Hua-Jen. Utilizing the Taiwanese technique of budaixi (operatic glove puppetry), expert cinematography to hide the puppeteers, and impressive computer augmentation for special effects, this tale of leadership strife in the Wu Lin mountains’ five kingdoms unfolds like any live-action wuxia might.
A young doctor of acupuncture becomes fatefully embroiled in a battle between two qilin Gods, his decision to interfere turning the tides of the fight and leaving him destined for more than his master could ever imagine. It’s upon returning home that we learn where Su fits into this world. An orphan raised by the Eight-Toed Qilin,...
A young doctor of acupuncture becomes fatefully embroiled in a battle between two qilin Gods, his decision to interfere turning the tides of the fight and leaving him destined for more than his master could ever imagine. It’s upon returning home that we learn where Su fits into this world. An orphan raised by the Eight-Toed Qilin,...
- 7/27/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Currently in post-production, the $10m fantasy adventure is directed by Chris Huang.
Hong Kong-based Golden Network Asia has picked up international rights to Taiwanese 3D puppet animation The Arti: The Adventure Begins, which Warner Bros will release in Taiwan next Chinese New Year.
Currently in post-production, the $10m fantasy adventure is produced by Pili International Multimedia and Puppetmotion Entertainment, with backing from Taiwanese retail chains Family Mart and 7-11.
Pili is the creator of Taiwan’s iconic Pili Puppet Theatre show, which is broadcast as a top-rating TV series and sells 400,000 units on DVD every month. Pili’s Chris Huang has directed the film, while his brother Vincent Huang produced.
In the film version, the son and daughter of a family accused of treason are forced to cross the desert with their wooden robot, but are pursued by a jealous prince with designs to construct his own robot army. Co-produced by China...
Hong Kong-based Golden Network Asia has picked up international rights to Taiwanese 3D puppet animation The Arti: The Adventure Begins, which Warner Bros will release in Taiwan next Chinese New Year.
Currently in post-production, the $10m fantasy adventure is produced by Pili International Multimedia and Puppetmotion Entertainment, with backing from Taiwanese retail chains Family Mart and 7-11.
Pili is the creator of Taiwan’s iconic Pili Puppet Theatre show, which is broadcast as a top-rating TV series and sells 400,000 units on DVD every month. Pili’s Chris Huang has directed the film, while his brother Vincent Huang produced.
In the film version, the son and daughter of a family accused of treason are forced to cross the desert with their wooden robot, but are pursued by a jealous prince with designs to construct his own robot army. Co-produced by China...
- 5/17/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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