The 2023 Golden Horse Film Project Promotion, the challenge market that accompanies the Golden Horse movie pageant and awards in Taiwan in November, has laid out an enormous 64-title choice for its 2023 version.
These embody 39 movie tasks at numerous phases of improvement and financing; an extra seven works in progress; and the 18-previously introduced sequence at challenge stage.
The occasion, which runs Nov. 20-22, provides a $31,000 (NT$1 million) first prize and a complete prize pool of $250,000 (NT$8 million) from sponsors and trade sources. All chosen tasks are additionally eligible to use to 2 TAICCA funding initiatives: the Creative Content Development Program and the International Co-funding Program.
Among the Taiwanese filmmakers: Huang Hsin-yao, the director of “The Great Buddha+” and “Classmates Minus,” takes on the legend of Taiwanese treasure hunters in “Super-Reasoning Treasure Hunt”; Tom Lin Shu-yu, director of “Winds of September” and “The Garden of Evening Mists,” groups up with Kimi Hsia for unconventional romance “This Is How I Love You”; Chang Jung-chi (“Touch of the Light,” “We Are Champions”) is pitching “Dangling,” a survival journey by which a window cleaner turns into trapped on a high-rise constructing; Laha Mebow, who gained the Golden Horse Award for finest director with “Gaga,” is that this time pitching a cross-era love story blended with mythology in her new challenge “Sayun’s Dreams.”
Hsu Chih-yen, who rose to fame with “Dear Ex,” tells the story of a washed-up singer who makes use of rap to promote fish in “Straight Outta Fishtown.”
Chinese-language tasks from Hong Kong and Macau embody: Ng Ka-leung, producer and screenwriter of “Ten Years,” with “Mindgration,” a story of a younger immigrant possessed by a British ghost; “Sisterhood” director Tracy Choi pitching “Be Ordinary,” a story of feminine self-growth and discovery; and “It is Just a Summer Thing,” produced by Drifting’s Jun Li and to be directed by Sasha Chuk, exploring the complexities of a younger lady’s coming of age.
More Than Blue filmmaker Gavin Lin turns producer for director Lien Chien-hung who’s pitching “That Year, 162 Rainfalls,” depicting younger love on an archery workforce.
At the extra genre-film finish of the spectrum, Chang Yao-sheng, wh beforehand directed “A Leg,” is pitching psychological thriller “The Haunted Socialite”; Tsai Chia-ying leads the award-winning workforce behind “The Tag-Along” to revisit one other Taiwanese city legend in “Trapped in Yellow.”
Among the cross-border co-productions the workforce behind “The Post-Truth World” collaborates with South Korean producers to pitch “Anomalies,” an exploration of human wickedness; whereas “Geylang” filmmaker Boi Kwong pitches a brand new tackle faculty bullying in “House of the Beast”; and the established duo Huang Ji and Otsuka Ryuji (“Stonewalling”) re-team for “A Woman Builds.”
The WIP choices embody: “Number 2,” a sequel to Ong Kuo Sin’s field workplace hit; “Transamazonia,” being directed by South African Pia Marais; Leung Kin-pong’s “Semi,” which explores the post-protest motion trauma of Hong Kong’s youth; Nelicia Low’s “Pierce,” a portrayal of a fencer from an excessive household; and “Out of Nowhere,” an absurd office comedy from Julian Lee.