The Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) reports that international submissions and co-productions accounted for 60% of entries for the 2025 edition of the TCCF Pitching event, which takes place in Taipei in early November. The annual pitch-fest received nearly 700 submissions from 44 countries, highlighting the event’s growing recognition on the global stage and rising cross-border collaboration.
The 2025 Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) runs from November 4–7, with 94 projects selected for the pitch sessions. Following Taiwan, the top submitting countries were Japan, Thailand, the U.S., Korea, and Singapore. TAICCA indicated that literary adaptations and international co-productions are driving global trends within the selection.
Key Projects and International Collaborations
The official selection features several high-profile literary adaptations:
- Taiwan Travelogue, adapted from Yang Shuang-zi’s U.S. National Book Award-winning novel.
- The Ones I Killed and the Ones Who Killed Me, adapted from Higashiyama Akira’s acclaimed novel.
- The animated series A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts, adapted from Asian American food writer Ying Chang Compestine’s young adult horror collection.
- The «Project» section features 56 selections across various genres, including Second Woman, a project that previously won two major awards at the 2023 TCCF. This section also underscores collaboration with regional and global partners:
- Mediacorp Singapore is co-producing Rescue Life with Sky Limit Pictures and Keepin Joy Tech.
- Dose is pitched by Rein Entertainment Productions from the Philippines.
- The feature film adaptation of Terao Tetsuya’s novel “Spent Bullets” is a co-production with Taiwanese filmmaker Henry Tsai.
- ROBOT Communications, the production company behind Godzilla Minus One in Japan, is pitching the series Diary of Summer.
Additionally, the selection includes LOMÁ, the new documentary from Berlinale Teddy Award winner Huang Hui-chen, and Goodbye My Love, which is Calendar Studios‘ Taiwanese version of the Korean drama, Do It One More Time.
Story segment and factual highlights
The «Story» segment features 30 original published texts. A key highlight is “A Sketch of a Female Serial Killer: Taiwan’s Only Female Death Row Prisoner and the Murders that Shocked a Nation,” which won the Taipei International Book Exhibition Grand Prize for Non-Fiction and was selected for the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair. The documentary session features the title “Atomic Paradise”.
