This year’s Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) opens with greater participation, broader conversations, expanded networking opportunities, and bigger prize money for the largest-ever number of projects being pitched.

When Shōgun producer Eriko Miyagawa arrives in Taipei for this year’s Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in November as one of the mentors for the pitching workshop, she becomes part of a strategic plan to enhance the creative abilities of the selected teams and foster international exchanges and collaboration. 

Organised by the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA), TCCF 2024 runs from Tuesday, 5 November, to Friday, 8 November, at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center.

TAICCA says TCCF “celebrates creativity, fuels collaborations, and shapes the future of the creative content industry”. 

The event is divided into three main sections – pitching, a market and a forum.   

This year’s TCCF MARKET, which focuses on licensing IP, fostering business collaboration and exchanging ideas and resources, brings together more than 88 agencies and companies from around the world. 

Market participants include the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), which is attending TCCF for the first time, along with Gyeonggi Content Agency (GCA), TV Tokyo, Fuji TV, Lotte Corporation, Kakao Entertainment, Rakuten Group, and Singapore’s Mediacorp. 

Domestic exhibitors include major Taiwanese TV stations and production companies, along with tech firms such as UserJoy Technology, Inventec, ADATA Technology and ASUS Cloud, and eight film-related city and county government agencies.

TCCF PITCHING sessions are divided into two – “Project to Screen”, which matches film, TV series, animation and documentary projects with funding and facilitates integration into the global market; and “Story to Screen”, which highlights IP with market potential across all platforms, ranging from fiction and non-fiction, comics, and original story concepts.

“The sections are designed for talents to present their projects to a diverse audience of investors and industry professionals,” TAICCA says, adding: “Pitching provides opportunities for co-production, investment, and support that drive these projects forward to the next phase.”

TCCF PITCHING features awards sponsored by CJ ENM HK and Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival’s (BIFAN) Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF), as well as cross-industry organisations in the fields of technology, finance, and animation. Prizes totalling NT$7.35 million/US$228,000 across more than 30 awards plus international festival resources are up for grabs in this year’s pitching events.

The 2024 TCCF FORUM revolves around the theme “Together for Impact” and will feature 15 panels and keynotes by speakers from 12 countries covering topics such as variety shows, film and television, animation, and children’s content. 

▶ Brought to you by TAICCA. Published in ContentAsia's Oct/Nov 2024 Magazine