Toru Kubota’s ‘My Camera, My Gun’ wins top prize at Taiwan Creative Content Fest pitching session

My Camera, My Gun, a Portugese-Japanese documentary project from director and writer Toru Kubota, took home the top prize at the pitching session of this year’s Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF), which wrapped yesterday (November 7).

The project won the TAICCA X CNC Award, worth $30,000, and is presented jointly by the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and France’s Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC).

The in-production documentary film, produced by Antonio Ribeiro and Golriz Kolahi at Moon Road Media & Films, takes place during the war in Myanmar, where director Kubota himself was once taken prisoner.

“The film is about people using their cameras as weapons of resistance,” said Kubota on receiving the award. “I’m now even more driven to move forward in telling this important story.”

TAICCA’s other award, the TWD300,000 Best Story award, was given to Rogue Bookstore, a project based on a comic and produced by Taiwan’s Mirror Fiction.

The project to win the most awards was Do You Still Love Me, which was presented in TCCF’s new romance-themed series showcase. The project, produced by IPis Innovation Co., Ltd., went home with five awards.

“This is a story about love and marriage,” said its producer Mimi Wang accepting one of its awards. “The pitch went like this: ‘Are you married? And do you still believe in love?’”

Other multiple award winners included the projects Naked In Glendale, Never The Bride, Mother Tongue, Up To The Buffalo, Goodbye My Love and Monsters Only Café.

This year’s Pitching section had nearly 700 submissions from 44 countries and regions, with a total of 94 projects from 19 countries and regions ultimately selected, surpassing last year’s 62 projects. Top submitting territories aside from Taiwan were Japan, Thailand, the United States, South Korea, and Singapore, and international submissions or co-productions accounted for 60% of entries.

The overall prize pool was approximately $320,000 (TD$10m), which surpassed last year’s $240,000. New awards this year included the ChiLing’s Future Makers Awards established by actress Lin ChiLing’s Chiling Charity Foundation, which were jointly worth TWD1.5m (approx. $48,000) across three awards.

This year’s TCCF ran for four days between November 4 and 7, and also included Market and Forum sections featuring sessions from across the Taiwanese and wider Asian content industry. TCCF has so far recorded a visit count of 17,794 over its first three days, surpassing last year’s four-day total of 15,000.

2025 TCCF Pitching Winners

Project

• TAICCA X CNC Award (USD30,000): My Camera, My Gun (Moon Road Media & Films)
• Hami Video Creativity Award (TWD600,000): Soul Lantern (D-DAY Pictures Co., Ltd.)
• 2025 TCCF MyPick Project Award: Never the Bride (Fire and Ice Media/Ghost City Films/Volos Films Ltd.)
• NMEA Award (TWD300,000): A Banquet For Hungry Ghosts (Robot Playground Media/Lumine Studio/Xanthus Animation/Toonz Media Group)
• Sustainable Future Award: Up to the Buffalo (Dream Sequenze Co., Ltd.)
• Mediacorp Award (TWD500,000): Soullless (IFA Media)
• Joint Journey Creative Award (TWD500,000): Love Letters From Tomorrow (YOOSONN Entertainment Co., Ltd./ Blintn/ NTT DOCOMO Studio & Live, Inc.)
• ChiLing’s Future Makers Award: Documentary (TWD500,000): How Sweet Does the Honey Taste? (Woooz Pictures/ Now Delhi)
• ChiLing’s Future Makers Award: Feature Film (TWD500,000): Pivot (AwesomeWorks Production/Vigo Film/Aniden Film/Graal s.a./Electric Sheep)
• ChiLing’s Future Makers Award: Animation (TWD500,000): Titi & Roro (Brilliant Animation Studios Ltd.)

Feature Film

• CJ ENM HK Global Vision Award: Goodbye My Love (Calendar Studios Co., Ltd.)
• THSR Beautiful Journey Award (TWD300,000): Mother Tongue (Bridgehead Co., Ltd.)
• PHAH Chiayi – Chiayi Story Development Award (TWD300,000): Goodbye My Love (Calendar Studios Co., Ltd.)
• Taipei International Film Award (TWD300,000): Mother Tongue (Bridgehead Co., Ltd.)
• APM Next Award: One Fine Day (One Fine Day Production House Sdn. Bhd./ Sunshine and Moonlight Ltd.)
• Gold House Distinction Award: Naked in Glendale (Seesaw Productions/ Q&A Entertainment)
• Motion Picture Association Grand Award: Seoul Story (Milkyway Cinema)
• Udine Focus Asia Award: Naked in Glendale (Seesaw Productions/ Q&A Entertainment)

Series Themed Session: If Romance Comes Again

• Blintn Next Hit Award (TWD300,000): Rescue Life (Skylimit Pictures Co., Ltd./ Mediacorp TV Singapore Pte. Ltd./ Keepin Joy Tech Co., Ltd.).
• EBC Original IP potential award: Do You Still Love Me (IPis Innovation Co., Ltd.)
• First Bank Award (TWD300,000): Hug! Police (Golden Edge Studio/ CY Films Co., Ltd.)
• MyVideo: Content Power Award: Do You Still Love Me (IPis Innovation Co., Ltd.)
• Formosa TV Award (TWD300,000): Do You Still Love Me (IPis Innovation Co., Ltd.)
• TVBS Storytelling Impact Grand Award (TWD300,000): Do You Still Love Me (IPis Innovation Co., Ltd.)
• KFA Original Award (TWD300,000): Love Ends In Bloom (Studio Lynnchen)
• udnFunLife IP Potential Award (TWD300,000): Do You Still Love Me (IPis Innovation Co., Ltd.)
• VideoLand Ingenuity Award (TWD 300,000): The Outlaws (Golden Edge Studio)
• Series Mania Awards: The Ones I Killed and the Ones Who Killed Me (GrX Studio) / Never the Bride (Fire and Ice Media/Ghost City Films/Volos Films Ltd.)

Documentary

• CCDF Award: LOMÁ (Your Sister Films)
• Doc Edge Award: How Sweet Does the Honey Taste? (Woooz Pictures Now Delhi)
• Docs by the Sea Award: Up to the Buffalo (Dream Sequenze Co., Ltd.)

Story: Fiction & Non-Fiction, Comics

• TAICCA AWARD: Best Story (TWD300,000): Rogue Bookstore (Mirror Fiction Inc.)
• friDay Video Original Story Award (TWD300,000): Stay Awake Before the Fall (Asian Culture Publishing Co., Ltd.)
• Glory IP Award: Promise to Bring You Home (Mirror Fiction Inc.)
• Good Image Original IP Excellence Award (TWD100,000): Monsters Only Café (Gamania Group)
• GTV Best Originality Award (TWD100,000): She Remembers Everything: A Breakfast Shop Mystery (Sun Color Culture Co., Ltd./ Millionstar Entertainment Inc.)
• Shoei Potential Original IP Award: Monsters Only Café (Gamania Group)
• SET TV NEXT STAR Award (TWD100,000): Policewoman from Yangmingshan Police Station (Kadokawa Taiwan Corporation)
• 2025 TCCF MyPick Story Award: A Sketch of a Female Serial Killer: Taiwan’s Only Female Death Row Prisoner and the Murders that Shocked a Nation (Mirror Fiction Inc.)
• Awards with no cash value include benefits such as mentoring or free festival attendance.