4 content material funds, collectively established by the Taiwan Artistic Content material Company (TAICCA) and native corporations, introduced the initiatives they’ve invested in over the previous 12 months at a TCCF showcase at this time.
The programming of the 4 funds – Chunghwa Digital Cultural and Artistic Fund, Momomini Children Content material Fund, Joint Journey Artistic and Get pleasure from Leisure – contains a variety of movies, sequence, dwell performances and immersive exhibitions.
Opening the presentation, TAICCA President Sue Wang stated: “These corporations are managed by skilled fund managers, based mostly on rigorous threat evaluation and administration. We wish to guarantee skilled governance in planning the portfolios of those funds.”
Get pleasure from Leisure – created by TAICCA, Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) and Far Attain Leisure – focuses on premium content material and worldwide co-productions.
The fund has thus far made 15 investments since its launch a 12 months in the past, together with in Our bluesa Taiwanese remake of CJ ENM’s Korean sequence, set to premiere on Netflix on December 3; and two latest hit movies: the Taiwanese horror movie The Curse of the Rope 4: Kuntilanak and motion film 96 minutess.
Gary Tsai, COO of FET’s leisure division and common supervisor of Far Attain Leisure, stated Curse of the Rope 4 just lately grossed $2.5 million (NTD 80 million) in Taiwan theaters and was additionally launched in Malaysia, Indonesia and shortly Cambodia. “The movie has Taiwanese style and taste, however it nonetheless resonates with audiences throughout Asia,” Tsai stated.
Get pleasure from Leisure additionally invested within the ID Music Pageant in Huashan Tradition Park, dwell musicals His voice And Do not cry dancers and an immersive exhibition created by illustrator Jimmy Liao.
TAICCA additionally companions with Momomini, a Taiwanese media model and YouTube content material channel, within the Momomini Children Content material Fund, which makes a speciality of youngsters’s content material and has made six investments over the previous 12 months. Along with help from TAICCA, the fund is supported by the Fubon Cultural & Instructional Basis and DaWin Artistic.
Phoebe TSAI, COO of Momomini Children Content material Fund, introduced the record which incorporates animations similar to comedy adventures. Who’s our sub at this timeAnd Feifeibased mostly on the tales of Taiwanese artist and creator Bei Lynn; in addition to dwell broadcasts similar to Mogu and Pérola collaboration with the French firm Zephyr and a actuality TV sequence Have enjoyable within the mountains.
The Momomini fund additionally supported drama sequence Whats up Mr Presidenta couple of child who goes to Taipei to satisfy the Taiwanese president. “Only a few manufacturing homes in Taiwan produce youngsters’s and teenage dramas. It has been a few years since a youngsters’s drama appeared on tv. So we’re very honored to have the chance, with the help of TAICCA, to take a position on this drama,” Tsai stated, including that filming of the present has been accomplished and will probably be broadcast from January subsequent 12 months.
Based in 2025, Joint Journey Artistic (JJC) is a three way partnership fund between SET Group, TAICCA, Chunghwa Telecom and Japanese firm The Far Japanese TV Leisure.
Centered on investments in transmedia and mental property growth, the fund goals to attach Taiwanese creators to Asian and international markets. With one in all its shareholders being Japanese, the fund has constructed bridges between the content material industries in Taiwan and Japan. His investments embody serving on the manufacturing committee of a number of seasons of Japanese dramas. Midnight dinner, together with season six.
“We’re capable of construct relationships and belief between Taiwan and Japan to pave the best way for larger collaboration with Japanese events,” stated JJC President Joanne Tsai.
JJC has additionally performed expertise incubation applications, together with a romantic drama sequence workshop that introduces Taiwanese abilities to drama producers from Korea and Japan. “We’ve got recognized a number of high quality storylines and right here at TCCF we’re speaking with our collaborators in Japan and Korea to see how we will deliver them to display screen,” Tsai stated, including that the fund additionally works with companions in the remainder of Asia, Europe and the US.
The fourth fund, Chunghwa Digital Cultural and Artistic Fund, was collectively established by TAICCA, Chunghwa Telecom and E.Solar Financial institution, once more with the mission of serving to Taiwanese cultural content material attain a worldwide viewers, with capital of roughly $30 million (NTD1BN).
Managing Director Lin Kun-feng defined that the fund invests in shares of Taiwanese manufacturing firm Damou Leisure (The world between us) and IP growth and publishing firm Horiza Creations.
Chunghwa additionally invests in a variety of movie and tv initiatives, together with It is The Lifee, produced by and with Esther Liu, Lobster namewith Chang Chen and Choi Siwon, and indie band Shallow Levee’s tour, Communicate in Silence.
Whereas Chunghwa is the fund’s largest shareholder with a 64% stake, TAICCA holds 30%, E-Solar 5% and CDCC Capital Administration 1%.