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 twentieth 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 (in development film projects), WIP project (work-in-progress film projects), and Series project; and has helped bring a total of 217 films and series to completion.
Myriad Selected Projects from the past years include Queerpanorama (DIR. Jun LI, selected in the Panorama section of Berlinale 2025); Left-Handed Girl (DIR. TSOU Shih-ching, selected in the 2025 Cannes Critics’ Week and represents Taiwan for the 2026 Oscars Best International Feature); Blind Love (DIR. Julian CHOU, in competition of the Tiger Competition of the 2025 IFFR); Ah Girl (DIR. ANG Geck Geck Priscilla, selected in the Bright Future of IFFR 2026); Before the Bright Day (DIR. TSAO Shih-han, in competition for the New Directors section at the 2025 San Sebastian Festival); Deep Quiet Room (DIR. SHEN Ko-shang, won Best Film in the Fei Mu Awards of the 2025 Pingyao International Film Festival); Black Ox (DIR. TSUTA Tetsuichiro, won the Firebird Award of the Young Cinema Competition (World) at 2025 HKIFF); Family Matters (DIR. PAN Ke-yin, won the Yakushi Pearl Award at the 2025 Osaka Asian Film Festival); My Father’s Son (DIR. QIU Sheng) and Wild Nights, Tamed Beasts (DIR. Tony WANG) were both nominated for Golden Goblet Awards at the 2025 Shanghai International Film Festival.
Besides shining at the international film festival circuits, the recently completed projects also performed brilliantly at the 62nd Golden Horse Awards; Queerpanorama won Best Director; Family Matters won Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay; Left-Handed Girl won Best New Performer; 96 Minutes won Best Visual Effects; A Dance With Rainbows won Best Action Choreography; A Mighty Adventure won Best Sound Effects.
The Series projects Born for the Spotlight, Three Tears in Borneo, The Cleaner, and A Perfect Blossom generated buzz upon their respective launches on OTT streaming platforms, as well as received several accolades at the Golden Bell Awards.
The FPP consists of two major events: One-on-one private meetings and professional workshops. In November 2025, investors, industry decision-makers and venture partners around the world convened in Taipei City for their chance to meet with the representatives of 64 Selected Projects (38 FPP Projects, 12 WIP Projects and 14 Series Projects), for an astounding total of 1,730 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 2025, almost 400 matching sessions were facilitated, fostering further opportunities for collaboration between outstanding film projects and music talents.
In addition to the coveted Grand Prize of TWD 1,000,000, the 2025 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), Dawning Jade Entertainment Film Award and the Dawning Jade Entertainment Series Award (respectively TWD 300,000), MyVideo Content Power Award (TWD 300,000), Taichung Action Creative Award (TWD 300,000), udnFunLife IP Award (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), as well as Netflix Inclusive Storytelling Award (TWD 500,000 for Series projects). The total prize money on offer approaches TWD 7 million, providing concrete rewards to support even more storytelling talents.
The 2026 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.
