Feature film Somewhere In The South, animation Wilderness Of The Greenriver, series Saga and documentary A Day’s Worth were the four grand award winners at TCCF Pitching’s Project segment, which wrapped today (November 9).
Malaysia-Singapore feature Somewhere In The South, directed by Tan Ce Ding and produced by Anthony Chen, won the biggest cash prize of $35,000, presented by Taiwan’s TAICCA and France’s CNC.
The other three winning projects each won $30,000, all presented by TAICCA except for the animation award, which is presented by both TAICCA and New Zealand’s Weta FX.
This year, each of the four categories had its own grand award, expanding from just a single top prize across all four sessions in previous editions.
Hung Tzu-peng’s Taiwanese horror thriller Reunion Dinner also took a trio of awards, including the Videoland Ingenuity Award, MPA Asia Pacific Grand Award and NAFF Award.
Projects that won two prizes included Kate Blackmore’s Tuvalu-Australia-Germany documentary Saving Tuvalu (HPCF Confluence Award by Hakka Public Communication Foundation and Taiwan Mobile: Content Power Award); Lee Chung’s Turns Out It’s Not BL But BFF (KFA Original Award by Kaohsiung Film Archive and TCCF MyPick Project Award by TAICCA); Romance In Hell (Hami Video Creativity Award by Chunghwa Telecom and udnFunLife IP Potential Award); and S. Leo Chiang’s documentary Parachute Kids (Doc Edge Award by Doc Edge New Zealand and Mega Bank C&E Foundation Best ESG Award).
Barunson E&A CEO Choi Yoonhee and Shogun producer Eriko Miyagawa were among the international jury members.
A total of 27 awards were handed out across the four categories. A further seven prizes were awarded in TCCF Pitching’s Story segment.
The total prize pool from the 34 awards amounted to more than $315,000 (NT$10m).
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