Taiwan Inventive Content material Company (TAICCA) is internet hosting a showcase of Taiwanese expertise and tasks at Filmart at the moment, simply as native productions are heading for a record-breaking first quarter on the Taiwanese field workplace.
The celebrities of two upcoming Taiwanese productions will attend the TAICCA showcase in Hong Kong – Ivy Yi-han Chen, star of TV collection Addicted, who additionally just lately starred in record-breaking hit Sunshine Girls’s Choir, and Liu Kuan-Ting, who stars in upcoming characteristic movie Haru And Tae and in addition has credit together with current hits A Foggy Story and Double Happiness.
Addicted, directed by Cheng Fen-fen and in addition starring Joseph Chang (The Sufferer’s Recreation) and Tien Hsin (Girls In Taipei), follows two ladies with unresolved life points who sink into habit collectively, whereas an anti-narcotics officer struggles with a relationship that he realises is akin to substance abuse. The collection is produced by Taiwan’s Robust Productions for broadcaster PTS.
Haru And Tae, directed by Akira Ikeda and in addition starring Yo Kimiko, Joe Ikeda and Solar Ke-Fang (Little Massive Girls), is the story of an aged lady who alarms the native villagers when she adopts an odd creature she finds within the mountains. At present in post-production, the movie is a co-production between Taiwan’s Oxygen Movies and Japan’s Shimensoka Co with Hope Content material Advertising and marketing dealing with worldwide gross sales.
The 2 tasks are amongst 243 Taiwanese movie and TV titles being supplied to worldwide consumers at Filmart this week. The market is at the moment on a excessive with a string of native movies lighting up the field workplace over the previous six months.
Sunshine Girls’s Choir, a heart-warming jail drama launched on the finish of final yr, has turn into the highest-grossing native movie of all time in Taiwan with greater than $22M (TWD700M). Different native hits have included historic drama A Foggy Story, motion thriller 96 Minutes, horror movie Mudborn and gangster movie Gatao: Massive Brothers.
In line with Taiwan’s Ministry of Tradition, native productions grossed a cumulative $30M (TWD971M) within the first quarter of 2026, surpassing field workplace for Taiwanese movies for the entire of 2025, and marking the best first quarter receipts for native movies on report. Consequently, Taiwanese movies at the moment have a greater than 58% share of general field workplace this quarter, in comparison with simply 4% throughout the identical interval final yr.
Different upcoming Taiwanese productions being promoted at Filmart embrace household drama I Blew Out The Candles Earlier than Making A Want, starring Kai Ko; Suffocation, Taiwan’s first single-shot horror characteristic, directed by Louis Chan and Stone Chang; biographical documentary I Dream Of The Ocean, about famend Taiwanese ocean literature author Syaman Raponan; and restored basic Connection By Destiny, beforehand chosen for Venice movie pageant.
A number of Taiwanese tasks have additionally been chosen for this yr’s Hong Kong Asia Movie Financing Discussion board (HAF) together with Cheung Wai-yu’s Mama Mia Let Me Go!, a co-production with Hong Kong and Korea; Chin Chia-hua’s A Ghost In The Market; Ken Yang’s A Vampire, In all probability, and Lu Po-Shun’s Taiwan-Singapore co-production Will You Nonetheless Be My Buddy.
