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US$250K up for grabs in new Asia film & script pitches; Taiwan’s TAICCA, Mediacorp, Rising Stories boost hunt for ideas
16 September 2024
Asia’s hunt for TV scripts ramps up in the final months of 2024, led by three calls out of Taiwan and Singapore and putting prize money of more than US$250,000 on the table for winning writers and producers.
The largest pot – a record NT$7.2 million/US$226,000 – comes from Taiwan’s government-backed agency, TAICCA, for the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) Pitch in Taipei in November.
This year’s selection of 62 projects from 21 countries includes Mai Nakanishi’s new film, "Child Uninvited"; Indonesian crime story, "Cubs"; Thai director Sasapitt Rujirat’s sci-fi film "Worldbot"; "The Birdwatcher"; and French animated title, "The Ballad of Yaya".
This year’s TCCF Pitch attracted almost 600 submissions from 50 countries.
The jury was drawn from Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, the U.S., Germany, Austria, Indonesia and Malaysia.
The TCCF Pitch will award 30 projects sponsored by private entities and international festival resources.
In addition, the latest global call for scripts from Mediacorp in Singapore will award prize money of S$10,000/US$7,500 each for the top three ideas and the possibility of co-production backing.
Submissions for the Mediacorp pitch close on 15 October.
The top scripts will be pitched at a closed session in Singapore during the ATF (3-6 Dec) in partnership with ATF organiser, RX.
This follows the August launch of the third annual Rising Stories international original story competition.
This year’s Rising Stories theme is “Love Asia”, although organisers stressed that all genres were welcome, including micro-dramas of 30-50 episodes of between one and three minutes.
The aim of opening up this year’s competition to micro-dramas is “to lead the next wave of visual storytelling in contemporary entertainment,” said Rising Stories’ director, Dennis Yang.
Entries close on 30 September. The top script will be awarded NT$100,000/US$3,200.
Taiwanese producer and writer, Angie Chai ("The Tenants Downstairs"), returns for a second year as preside...
Asia’s hunt for TV scripts ramps up in the final months of 2024, led by three calls out of Taiwan and Singapore and putting prize money of more than US$250,000 on the table for winning writers and producers.
The largest pot – a record NT$7.2 million/US$226,000 – comes from Taiwan’s government-backed agency, TAICCA, for the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) Pitch in Taipei in November.
This year’s selection of 62 projects from 21 countries includes Mai Nakanishi’s new film, "Child Uninvited"; Indonesian crime story, "Cubs"; Thai director Sasapitt Rujirat’s sci-fi film "Worldbot"; "The Birdwatcher"; and French animated title, "The Ballad of Yaya".
This year’s TCCF Pitch attracted almost 600 submissions from 50 countries.
The jury was drawn from Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, the U.S., Germany, Austria, Indonesia and Malaysia.
The TCCF Pitch will award 30 projects sponsored by private entities and international festival resources.
In addition, the latest global call for scripts from Mediacorp in Singapore will award prize money of S$10,000/US$7,500 each for the top three ideas and the possibility of co-production backing.
Submissions for the Mediacorp pitch close on 15 October.
The top scripts will be pitched at a closed session in Singapore during the ATF (3-6 Dec) in partnership with ATF organiser, RX.
This follows the August launch of the third annual Rising Stories international original story competition.
This year’s Rising Stories theme is “Love Asia”, although organisers stressed that all genres were welcome, including micro-dramas of 30-50 episodes of between one and three minutes.
The aim of opening up this year’s competition to micro-dramas is “to lead the next wave of visual storytelling in contemporary entertainment,” said Rising Stories’ director, Dennis Yang.
Entries close on 30 September. The top script will be awarded NT$100,000/US$3,200.
Taiwanese producer and writer, Angie Chai ("The Tenants Downstairs"), returns for a second year as president of the Rising Stories jury, which this year also includes Taiwanese actors Sandrine Pinna ("Touch of the Light"), who is working on developing her own scripts, and Lee Ming-chung; screenwriters Fan Tzu-chi and Lin Pei-yu; and director Lai Meng-jie.
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