The Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (FPP) is a Chinese-language film project matching and co-production platform designed to bring to the fore collaborative opportunities between filmmakers, investors and distributors, as well as to link regional industry professionals to the international film community. In the nineteenth years since its establishment, the FPP has made numerous dazzling examples of the successful, the innovative, and the artistic. The FPP consists of three sections: FPP project (film projects in development), WIP project (work-in-progress film projects), and Series project.
Myriad Selected Projects from the past years include Stranger Eyes (Dir. YEO Siew-hua, in Competition of Venice Film Festival 2024); Shambhala (Dir. Min Bahadur BHAM, in Competition of Berlinale 2024 and selected in Piazza Grande of Locarno Film Festival 2024); Transamazonia (Dir. Pia MARAIS, in International Competition of Locarno Film Festival 2024); Daughter's Daughter (Dir. HUANG Xi, selected in the Platform of Toronto International Film Festival 2024); Another Home (Dir. Frankie SIN, won Best Asian Documentary in the Wide Angle Mecenat section of Busan International Film Festival 2024); Montages of a Modern Motherhood (Dir. Oliver CHAN Siu-kuen, selected in the New Currents Competition of Busan International Film Festival 2024); Pierce (Dir. Nelicia LOW, selected in the A Window on Asian Cinema section of Busan International Film Festival 2024 and won the Crystal Globe for Best Director in the Main Competition of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2024); and Stranger (Dir. YANG Zheng-fan, selected in Proxima Competition of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2024).
Besides shining at the international film festival circuits, the recently completed projects also performed brilliantly at the 61st Golden Horse Awards; Daughter's Daughter won Best Original Screenplay; The Way We Talk won Best Leading Actress; and Stranger Eyes won Best Original Film Score.
The recent completed Series projects include Three Tears in Borneo (Dir. SUN Chieh-heng); The Cleaner (Dir. CHEN Ta-pu); and Born for the Spotlight (Dir. YEN Yi-wen) have premiered on various platforms. Since their release, they have received widespread acclaim and sparked enthusiastic discussions among viewers.
The FPP consists of two major events: One-on-one private meetings and professional workshops. In November 2024, investors, industry decision-makers and venture partners around the world convened in Taipei City for their chance to meet with the representatives of 63 Selected Projects (38 FPP Projects, 13 WIP Projects and 12 Series Projects), for an astounding total of 1,740 private pitching meetings. The FPP’s signature one-on-one round table meetings are especially lauded as rare independent spaces, where filmmakers may fully present their creative visions and production capability, and where industry professionals may speak freely and unreservedly. Prior to the meetings, the representatives of the Selected Projects were invited to workshops with their project proposal to discuss with industry veterans, whose valuable suggestions add the polishing touches on pitches, advancing investor commitment prospects. In addition to the film project market, the FPP has expanded its platform to cross-industry collaboration with the Golden Indie Music Awards since 2022, facilitating mutual exchange networks for the filmmakers and musicians in the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion × Golden Indie Music Awards networking event. In 2024, almost 400 matching sessions were facilitated, fostering further opportunities for collaboration between outstanding film projects and musical talents.
In addition to the coveted Grand Prize of TWD 1,000,000, the 2024 FPP also offered other cash awards with the enduring and generous sponsorship of leading regional and international partners, including Taipei Golden Creativity Award (TWD 600,000), TAICCA Original Award (TWD 600,000), Hakka Creative Award (TWD 400,000), Judicial Creative Film Award and the Judicial Creative Series Award (respectively TWD 350,000), MORE FUTURE Award (TWD 350,000), ZW Ingenuity Award (TWD 300,000), Dawning Jade Entertainment Film Award and the Dawning Jade Entertainment Series Award (respectively TWD 300,000), Taipei New Horizon Screenplay Award (TWD 400,000 for WIP projects), Activator Market Potential Award (TWD 300,000 in-kind digital marketing budget for WIP projects), MyVideo Creative Series Award (TWD 300,000) as well as CATCHPLAY International Spotlight Award (TWD 300,000 for Series projects). The total prize money on offer approaches TWD 7.5 million, providing concrete rewards to support even more storytelling talents.
The 2025 Golden Horse FPP will take place from November 17th through the 19th, where a gathering of film industry professionals is certain to be a sight to behold.
