The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival is to showcase five upcoming Taiwanese projects at Cannes including features from Chen Yu-hsun, Yang Ya-che, Huang Xi, Giddens Ko and John Hsu with stars such as Wu Kang-ren, Gingle Wang, Kai Ko, Caitlin Fang and Karena Lam.
The new programme, titled Golden Horse Goes To Cannes, comprises works-in-progress projects and will be presented to industry professionals on May 16 at Palais K during the Cannes Film Festival. It marks Golden Horse’s first collaboration with the Marche du Film.
See below for full project list
The collaboration was initiated by Taipei Golden Horse Film...
The new programme, titled Golden Horse Goes To Cannes, comprises works-in-progress projects and will be presented to industry professionals on May 16 at Palais K during the Cannes Film Festival. It marks Golden Horse’s first collaboration with the Marche du Film.
See below for full project list
The collaboration was initiated by Taipei Golden Horse Film...
- 4/10/2024
- ScreenDaily
Japanese original was previously remade as ‘Hachi: A Dog’s Tale’, starring Richard Gere.
China’s iQiyi has closed fresh sales of Hachiko, a Chinese remake of Japanese feature Hachiko Monogatari, about a loyal dog who waited for his owner in the same spot even after his death.
The Chinese adaptation has been acquired for Latin America (Star Films) and Cis and Baltics (Kinologistika) with further deals pending.
Directed by Xu Ang and executive produced by Yeh Jufeng, film stars Da Huang, Feng Xiao-gang and Joan Chen.
Based on a true story, the 1987 Japanese feature was remade in the US as Hachi: A Dog’s Tale,...
China’s iQiyi has closed fresh sales of Hachiko, a Chinese remake of Japanese feature Hachiko Monogatari, about a loyal dog who waited for his owner in the same spot even after his death.
The Chinese adaptation has been acquired for Latin America (Star Films) and Cis and Baltics (Kinologistika) with further deals pending.
Directed by Xu Ang and executive produced by Yeh Jufeng, film stars Da Huang, Feng Xiao-gang and Joan Chen.
Based on a true story, the 1987 Japanese feature was remade in the US as Hachi: A Dog’s Tale,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
“Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” opened in fourth place at the mainland China box office with a muted $5 million haul. Top honors belonged to Japanese animation film “Suzume” for the second weekend.
“Suzume” incurred a 55% week-on-week drop, falling from $49.6 million in its opening weekend, to $22.1 million in is second, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway. After ten days in Chinese theaters, “Suzume” now has a cumulative total of $80.6 million.
Nevertheless, its lead at the top of the box office chart was unassailable. The weekend’s best-placed new release title was “Hachiko,” a Chinese retelling of the Japanese tale of a dog which faithfully waited at a station for its master years after his death. (The story was previously given a U.S. version with Richard Gere in the lead human role.) It earned $8.9 million (RMB61.2 million) in its opening weekend.
Produced by streaming service iQiyi, the Chinese film stars Feng Xiaogang,...
“Suzume” incurred a 55% week-on-week drop, falling from $49.6 million in its opening weekend, to $22.1 million in is second, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway. After ten days in Chinese theaters, “Suzume” now has a cumulative total of $80.6 million.
Nevertheless, its lead at the top of the box office chart was unassailable. The weekend’s best-placed new release title was “Hachiko,” a Chinese retelling of the Japanese tale of a dog which faithfully waited at a station for its master years after his death. (The story was previously given a U.S. version with Richard Gere in the lead human role.) It earned $8.9 million (RMB61.2 million) in its opening weekend.
Produced by streaming service iQiyi, the Chinese film stars Feng Xiaogang,...
- 4/3/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Further film and series winners included filmmakers from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan.
Malaysian director Chong Keat-aun’s Amah’s Miseries has claimed the grand prize at the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (Fpp) financing market in Taiwan, winning a 32,000 (NT1m) prize.
Further film and series winners at the market, which takes place during the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, included filmmakers from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan.
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Amah’s Miseries is produced by Wong Kew-soon from Malaysia, Gene Yao from Taiwan and Chow Wai-thong from Singapore, the same team behind Chong...
Malaysian director Chong Keat-aun’s Amah’s Miseries has claimed the grand prize at the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (Fpp) financing market in Taiwan, winning a 32,000 (NT1m) prize.
Further film and series winners at the market, which takes place during the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, included filmmakers from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan.
Scroll down for full list of winners
Amah’s Miseries is produced by Wong Kew-soon from Malaysia, Gene Yao from Taiwan and Chow Wai-thong from Singapore, the same team behind Chong...
- 11/18/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Return To Space
Australia’s Slr Productions has announced production on season two of the award-winning original CGI animated series, “Space Nova” for ABC Me. The 15 x 22-minute season has received significant production funding from both Screen Australia and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation as well as development funding from ABC Me and Create Nsw. “Space Nova” will be co-produced with Giggle Garage in Malaysia and distributed internationally by Zdf Studios, with Actf representing the series across Australia and New Zealand. Targeting a six- to ten-year-old global audience, the first season sold to broadcasters or streamers in Germany, the U.K., Norway, Finland, Sweden, Poland, the U.S, Singapore, East Asia, Indonesia, and Brazil.
Slr gives the logline as: “On the brink of their greatest mission ever – travelling to the incredible Stardustian’s planet – the Novas’ ship is almost destroyed, throwing them off course and stranding their new friend Ziggy in parts unknown.
Australia’s Slr Productions has announced production on season two of the award-winning original CGI animated series, “Space Nova” for ABC Me. The 15 x 22-minute season has received significant production funding from both Screen Australia and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation as well as development funding from ABC Me and Create Nsw. “Space Nova” will be co-produced with Giggle Garage in Malaysia and distributed internationally by Zdf Studios, with Actf representing the series across Australia and New Zealand. Targeting a six- to ten-year-old global audience, the first season sold to broadcasters or streamers in Germany, the U.K., Norway, Finland, Sweden, Poland, the U.S, Singapore, East Asia, Indonesia, and Brazil.
Slr gives the logline as: “On the brink of their greatest mission ever – travelling to the incredible Stardustian’s planet – the Novas’ ship is almost destroyed, throwing them off course and stranding their new friend Ziggy in parts unknown.
- 10/17/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
’Day Off’ marks the first film of veteran actress Lu Hsiao-fen in 20 years.
Taiwan-based sales agent MandarinVision is launching Xiao Xiao, starring More Than Blue’s Ivy Chen, and Day Off, the first film of veteran actress Lu Hsiao-fen in 20 years, at Busan’s Acfm.
Produced by Yeh Jufeng of Oscar-shortlisted A Sun, Xiao Xiao marks the feature directorial debut Chin Chia-hua and is a family drama about a young girl whose world starts to fall apart when she discovers that her mother is having an affair with a teacher in her school.
The cast is led by Chen from...
Taiwan-based sales agent MandarinVision is launching Xiao Xiao, starring More Than Blue’s Ivy Chen, and Day Off, the first film of veteran actress Lu Hsiao-fen in 20 years, at Busan’s Acfm.
Produced by Yeh Jufeng of Oscar-shortlisted A Sun, Xiao Xiao marks the feature directorial debut Chin Chia-hua and is a family drama about a young girl whose world starts to fall apart when she discovers that her mother is having an affair with a teacher in her school.
The cast is led by Chen from...
- 10/9/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Since its world premiere at the Taipei Film Festival in 2017, „The Great Buddha+“ by the first time fiction feature director Hsin-yao Huang has been travelling across the globe, receiving excellent reviews at the multitude of international festivals. Huang‘s dark comedy based on the narrative by his previous short of the same name, encapsulates the essence of the Taiwanese society marked by growing class extremes and corruption in a country that officially shouldn’t behaving any of it.
„The Great Buddha+“ was shown in Reykjavik in frames of the Stockfish Festival (February 28th – March 10th), in the first-time cooperation with the Taiwan Film Festival (March 8th – 24th) which celebrates Taiwan’s long and tempestuous history and diverse cultural heritage through the uncensored lens of independent Taiwanese filmmakers, and which will straight afterwards be launched in London as well (April 3rd – 14th). It is in Reykjavik we met up with Hsin-yao...
„The Great Buddha+“ was shown in Reykjavik in frames of the Stockfish Festival (February 28th – March 10th), in the first-time cooperation with the Taiwan Film Festival (March 8th – 24th) which celebrates Taiwan’s long and tempestuous history and diverse cultural heritage through the uncensored lens of independent Taiwanese filmmakers, and which will straight afterwards be launched in London as well (April 3rd – 14th). It is in Reykjavik we met up with Hsin-yao...
- 3/16/2019
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: Upcoming Filipino genre picture tackles global immigration debate.
Taipei-based film and TV powerhouse MandarinVision has boarded Malaysian-born, Philippines-based director Bradley Liew’s upcoming horror picture Motel Acacia, set against a brothel with a sinister mission to bump off migrant workers.
Producer Bianca Balbuena of Manila-based Epicmedia Productions revealed the deal at the Sam Spiegel Film Lab pitching event on the fringes of Jerusalem Film Festival on Friday.
Balbuena said it was the fruit of a meeting with MandarinVision’s head of film Yeh Jufeng at Taipei Film Festival earlier this month. “She wants to support Bradley Liew because she thinks he’s one of the new talents of southeast Asian cinema and the reason I am here right now is because I believe the same thing,” said Balbuena.
In Liew’s words, “Motel Acacia is about a young half-Philippine, half-American man who is brought over to the West by his tyrannical Caucasian father and groomed...
Taipei-based film and TV powerhouse MandarinVision has boarded Malaysian-born, Philippines-based director Bradley Liew’s upcoming horror picture Motel Acacia, set against a brothel with a sinister mission to bump off migrant workers.
Producer Bianca Balbuena of Manila-based Epicmedia Productions revealed the deal at the Sam Spiegel Film Lab pitching event on the fringes of Jerusalem Film Festival on Friday.
Balbuena said it was the fruit of a meeting with MandarinVision’s head of film Yeh Jufeng at Taipei Film Festival earlier this month. “She wants to support Bradley Liew because she thinks he’s one of the new talents of southeast Asian cinema and the reason I am here right now is because I believe the same thing,” said Balbuena.
In Liew’s words, “Motel Acacia is about a young half-Philippine, half-American man who is brought over to the West by his tyrannical Caucasian father and groomed...
- 7/16/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Company’s titles include a Cheng Wei Hao crime thriller and a drama exec produced by Hou Hsiao Hsien.
MandarinVision has brought a new slate of titles from Taiwan to Hong Kong Filmart, including crime thriller Who Killed Cock Robin, which reunites The Tag Along [pictured] director Cheng Wei Hao with his actress Hsu Wei Ning.
The new film, also starring Kaiser Chuang, Ko Chia Yen and Christopher Lee, is about an enthusiastic journalist’s investigation into a long-forgotten hit-and-run accident. It will open on March 31 in Taiwan.
Also on the company’s slate are Huang Xi’s Missing Johnny, a relationship drama executive produced by Hou Hsiao Hsien, and Huang A Yao’s The Great Buddha+, executive produced by Godspeed director Chung Mong Hong, a dark comedy about a security guard who unleashes a chaotic chain reaction after watching the private videos of his boss. Both debut features are in post-production.
The Taiwan-based...
MandarinVision has brought a new slate of titles from Taiwan to Hong Kong Filmart, including crime thriller Who Killed Cock Robin, which reunites The Tag Along [pictured] director Cheng Wei Hao with his actress Hsu Wei Ning.
The new film, also starring Kaiser Chuang, Ko Chia Yen and Christopher Lee, is about an enthusiastic journalist’s investigation into a long-forgotten hit-and-run accident. It will open on March 31 in Taiwan.
Also on the company’s slate are Huang Xi’s Missing Johnny, a relationship drama executive produced by Hou Hsiao Hsien, and Huang A Yao’s The Great Buddha+, executive produced by Godspeed director Chung Mong Hong, a dark comedy about a security guard who unleashes a chaotic chain reaction after watching the private videos of his boss. Both debut features are in post-production.
The Taiwan-based...
- 3/13/2017
- by screenasia@yahoo.com (Silvia Wong)
- ScreenDaily
Award-winning director Chen Yu-Hsun teams up with Taiwanese star Shu Qi to tickle your funny bone with the upcoming comedy film The Village of No Return.
Since his first feature Tropical Fish in 1995, this $9M feature is Chen’s sixth film foray in the comedy genre.
From his hilarious TV commercials to memorable shorts (Middle-Aged Juliet, Hippocamp Hair Salon), well received features like Love Go Go and Zone Pro Site: The Movable Feast, Chen takes the director’s seat again with this period action comedy flick.
The film is set sometime during the end of the Qing dynasty, a very strange event take place and turns a sleepy rural village’s life upside down–all while waiting for a railway to come.
The Village of No Return also reunites Chen with producers Yeh Jufeng, Lee Lieh, and Warner Brothers (Taiwan), following their breakout hit Zone Pro Site.
The Taiwanese comedy...
Since his first feature Tropical Fish in 1995, this $9M feature is Chen’s sixth film foray in the comedy genre.
From his hilarious TV commercials to memorable shorts (Middle-Aged Juliet, Hippocamp Hair Salon), well received features like Love Go Go and Zone Pro Site: The Movable Feast, Chen takes the director’s seat again with this period action comedy flick.
The film is set sometime during the end of the Qing dynasty, a very strange event take place and turns a sleepy rural village’s life upside down–all while waiting for a railway to come.
The Village of No Return also reunites Chen with producers Yeh Jufeng, Lee Lieh, and Warner Brothers (Taiwan), following their breakout hit Zone Pro Site.
The Taiwanese comedy...
- 9/5/2016
- by Kat Meneses
- AsianMoviePulse
New films include Godspeed from Golden Horse-winner Chung Mong-Hong and hostage comedy Ace Of Sales.
Taiwanese production and financing company MandarinVision is launching an international sales operation headed by former Atom Cinema executive Desmond Yang.
The company’s slate includes Chung Mong-Hong’s Godspeed, a dark comedy starring veteran Hong Kong comedian Michael Hui as a cab driver and Taiwan actor Na Dow and a passenger who turns out to be a drug courier.
Chung won best director for The Fourth Portrait at the 2010 Golden Horse Awards. His first feature Parking premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, while his most recent film, Soul, premiered at Taipei.
MandarinVision is also selling Ace of Sales, a comedy from director Cho Li (The Rice Bomber) about a young woman who aspires to become the top salesperson of a TV shopping channel, but is held hostage during her live show. The cast includes Bianca Bai and Lin Mei-Hsiu.
MandarinVision, established...
Taiwanese production and financing company MandarinVision is launching an international sales operation headed by former Atom Cinema executive Desmond Yang.
The company’s slate includes Chung Mong-Hong’s Godspeed, a dark comedy starring veteran Hong Kong comedian Michael Hui as a cab driver and Taiwan actor Na Dow and a passenger who turns out to be a drug courier.
Chung won best director for The Fourth Portrait at the 2010 Golden Horse Awards. His first feature Parking premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, while his most recent film, Soul, premiered at Taipei.
MandarinVision is also selling Ace of Sales, a comedy from director Cho Li (The Rice Bomber) about a young woman who aspires to become the top salesperson of a TV shopping channel, but is held hostage during her live show. The cast includes Bianca Bai and Lin Mei-Hsiu.
MandarinVision, established...
- 3/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
Taiwan sales outfit Ablaze Image is launching martial arts comedy The Village That Forgets at Filmart.
Starring Shu Qi and Joseph Chang, the film directed by Chen Yu-Hsun revolves around a mysterious event in a rural village by the end of the Qing dynasty. The cast also includes Wang Qianyuan, Eric Tsang, Tony Yang and Lin Mei-Hsiu.
The $9m feature, set for release around Chinese New Year 2017, reunites director Chen with producers Lee Lieh and Yeh Jufeng and Warner Bros (Taiwan), following their breakout hit Zone Pro Site.
A total of seven investors are aboard the project, including Lee’s One Production Film, Wanda Pictures from China and Warner Bros (Taiwan).
Ablaze has also picked up international rights to Kuo Cheng-Chui’s first feature, Foret Debussy, which stars Gwei Lun-Mei and Lu Yi-Ching as a daughter and mother who hide themselves in the deep forest to shun their painful past from the urban life.
Starring Shu Qi and Joseph Chang, the film directed by Chen Yu-Hsun revolves around a mysterious event in a rural village by the end of the Qing dynasty. The cast also includes Wang Qianyuan, Eric Tsang, Tony Yang and Lin Mei-Hsiu.
The $9m feature, set for release around Chinese New Year 2017, reunites director Chen with producers Lee Lieh and Yeh Jufeng and Warner Bros (Taiwan), following their breakout hit Zone Pro Site.
A total of seven investors are aboard the project, including Lee’s One Production Film, Wanda Pictures from China and Warner Bros (Taiwan).
Ablaze has also picked up international rights to Kuo Cheng-Chui’s first feature, Foret Debussy, which stars Gwei Lun-Mei and Lu Yi-Ching as a daughter and mother who hide themselves in the deep forest to shun their painful past from the urban life.
- 3/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
Taipei Factory II, co-produced by Taipei Film Commission and Italy’s Rai Cinema, has wrapped in Taipei.
Comprising three shorts directed by Taiwan’s Cho Li, Hou Chi-jan and Hsieh Chun-yi, the project features Italian actors including Margot Sikabonyi (lead actress in Cho Li’s Soap Opera), Marco Foschi (lead actor in Hsieh’s Luca), and Michele Cesari (lead actor in Hou’s The Thrill is Gone).
The project was executive produced by leading Taiwanese producers Lee Lieh and Yeh Jufeng, who attended a press conference in Taipei to introduce the project on May 21. The event was also attended by Chang Chin-oh, deputy mayor of Taipei City; Mario Palma, representative of the Italian Economic, Trade and Cultural Promotion Office in Taipei; and representatives from local sponsors and post-production companies.
The first installment in the Taipei Factory series – directed by Singing Chen, Shen Ko-shang, Midi Z and Chang Jung-chi – was presented at last year’s Directors’ Fortnight...
Comprising three shorts directed by Taiwan’s Cho Li, Hou Chi-jan and Hsieh Chun-yi, the project features Italian actors including Margot Sikabonyi (lead actress in Cho Li’s Soap Opera), Marco Foschi (lead actor in Hsieh’s Luca), and Michele Cesari (lead actor in Hou’s The Thrill is Gone).
The project was executive produced by leading Taiwanese producers Lee Lieh and Yeh Jufeng, who attended a press conference in Taipei to introduce the project on May 21. The event was also attended by Chang Chin-oh, deputy mayor of Taipei City; Mario Palma, representative of the Italian Economic, Trade and Cultural Promotion Office in Taipei; and representatives from local sponsors and post-production companies.
The first installment in the Taipei Factory series – directed by Singing Chen, Shen Ko-shang, Midi Z and Chang Jung-chi – was presented at last year’s Directors’ Fortnight...
- 5/21/2014
- ScreenDaily
Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture has selected Chung Mong-hong’s psychological thriller Soul as its official entry to the best foreign-language picture category of the Academy Awards.
The film, which recently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, is produced by Yeh Jufeng and Tzeng Shiao-Chien and stars martial arts icon Jimmy Wang Yu and up-and-coming actor Joseph Chang. It was released in Taiwan on August 30.
The selection committee organised by Taiwan’s Ministry Of Culture said: “The director, with his precise mise-en-scene, examines the mental state of people in an isolated village. The film creates a fascinating and chilling world of violence and the fragility of the living soul in a cinematic way.”
Chung’s debut feature Parking premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section in 2008. His second feature, The Fourth Portrait, was awarded best director at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards in 2010.
Taipei-based Ifilm is over-seeing festival coordination and international sales for the film, which...
The film, which recently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, is produced by Yeh Jufeng and Tzeng Shiao-Chien and stars martial arts icon Jimmy Wang Yu and up-and-coming actor Joseph Chang. It was released in Taiwan on August 30.
The selection committee organised by Taiwan’s Ministry Of Culture said: “The director, with his precise mise-en-scene, examines the mental state of people in an isolated village. The film creates a fascinating and chilling world of violence and the fragility of the living soul in a cinematic way.”
Chung’s debut feature Parking premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section in 2008. His second feature, The Fourth Portrait, was awarded best director at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards in 2010.
Taipei-based Ifilm is over-seeing festival coordination and international sales for the film, which...
- 9/16/2013
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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