Janet Yang, the primary Asian American to steer the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, will cap off the Taiwan Inventive Content material Fest with a keynote tackle exploring how Asian filmmakers can increase their attain in worldwide markets.
The Emmy and Golden Globe winner, identified for producing “The Pleasure Luck Membership,” “Over the Moon” and “Indictment: The McMartin Trial,” is amongst greater than 25 worldwide audio system on the Taiwan Inventive Content material Company’s annual gathering.
Jane Wu, who helmed the Emmy-winning animated Netflix sequence “Blue Eye Samurai,” will hint her profession path from storyboard artist to director and focus on working throughout borders with varied manufacturing corporations.
On the Korean entrance, Sean Saeyoon Shim of “Shifting” producer Mr. Romance and Youngsun Soh from A+E International Media Korea will tackle funding and distribution techniques for worldwide tasks.
Southeast Asian platforms are sending their content material chiefs to debate acquisition priorities: Le Thuy Trang from Vietnam’s FPT Play, Komin Aoudomphan from Thailand’s True Digital Group, and Roland Lee from Malaysia’s Astro will reveal what drives their programming selections for Asian content material.
Japanese storytelling will get its personal highlight via Mika Omori, who penned “Hitori de Shinitai” and “The Unfettered Shogun,” together with NHK’s “Anpan” producers Ken Kurasai and Yuki Uchida. Their panel examines how interval dramas mix reality and fiction.
Three Golden Bell Awards Finest Actress contenders – Ning Chang, Alice Ko and Allison Lin – will seem collectively for the primary time to debate profession trajectories and roles for girls each in entrance of and behind the digital camera.
TAICCA chair Sue Wang mentioned the business is being reshaped by shifts in expertise, enterprise fashions and funding methods, and famous that observing developments in South Korea, the U.S., Japan, France and Southeast Asia can sharpen Taiwan’s aggressive edge internationally.
The discussion board’s dozen classes span subjects together with selection codecs, IP growth and AI functions. It runs Nov. 4-7 at Taipei’s Nangang Exhibition Heart.
