A trio of ministers, accompanied by a fleet of senior trade names, had been available Tuesday in Taipei to present their official blessing to the opening of the fourth operating of the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) – and to underline the Taiwan authorities’s funding in tender energy.
Cheng Wen-tsan, VP of the [government executive branch] Executive Yuan, Taiwan’s Minister of Culture, Shih Che, and a minister with out portfolio had been accompanied by Chunghwa Telecom’s chairman, Kuo Shui-Yi, head of TAICCA Homme Tsai and Dominique Boutonnat, president of France’s National Center of Cinematography and the Moving Image, on stage on the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, a former-tobacco manufacturing facility website that has since been redeveloped.
“Nowadays we are investing not only in semiconductors and heavy industry, but also in media and content,” stated Cheng. He confirmed that some NT$10 billion ($310 million) of presidency funding has been permitted for the “1 Plus 4T Content Plan” and will likely be launched over 4 years.
In a traditional instance of public-private partnerships, state money is being supplemented by additional monetary commitments from Taiwan’s three main cable-telecoms-internet teams by means of offers signed final week with Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA). On stage Tuesday, Chunghwa Telecom confirmed it could be offering NT$3 billion ($93 million).
Finance, new businesses and worldwide bilateral relations are all being developed or enlarged in service of a media and leisure trade that’s seen as inventive, fascinating and supportive of Taiwan’s cultural, branding and diplomatic outreach insurance policies.
“We have abundant culture and history, an important position in Mandarin-language culture and [now] a new digital role,” stated tradition minister Shih. This comes because the affect of COVID recedes, throwing up new alternatives, but in addition inflicting different threats to loom on the horizon. “The world is reconnecting, TCCF is expanding. [These efforts represent] protection of our culture. We want to showcase our strength, cultural diversity and freedom.”
Freedom and democracy had been additionally on the lips of Boutonnat who was available to assist France’s personal worldwide tender energy push in Asia.
“There are many similarities between these two places,” stated Boutonnat, referring to each Taiwan and France’s proactive authorities establishments concerned in movie, TV and media tech improvement. “We also share a common philosophy, one that says freedom is essential to creativity – industrial, political and cultural.”