The top award was handed out by a jury comprising Chen Yu-hsun, Yeo Yann Yann and Jacky Pang. The project, which also received the Judicial Creative Film Award, follows two mental health patients who fall in love and get married, only to face challenges testing their bond to the limits. Executive producers are Shen Ko-shang and Anne Wu.
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Aoharu Point, the latest project from Café·Waiting·Love director Chiang Chin-lin, won a hat-trick of prizes, including the Dawning Jade Entertainment Film Award, Hakka Creative Award and More Future Award.
The adaptation of a Japanese novel of the same name is about a fantastical campus romance. Japan’s Kadokawa Corporation is among the backers. It is executive produced by Gavin Lin and written by Hermes Lu, the creative team behind massive hit More Than Blue.
Some 17 awards were presented at the closing ceremony of FPP, which ran from November 18-20 at the Grand Hyatt Taipei. A record 1,740 meetings were scheduled for a lineup of 63 projects, including 38 in-development feature projects, 13 work-in-progress features and 12 in-development series.
International projects were also recognised. Wake Me Up When The Mourning Ends, a Malaysia-Hong Kong project directed by Lau Kok-rui, Golden Horse Awards’ best new director winner for Best New Director for The Sunny Side of the Street, took the More Future Award.
One Day In The Future, a work-in-progress documentary about a lesbian couple from mainland China by directors Jiang Xuannian and Ji Hang, won the Activator Market Potential Award; and Survival Guide For Doomsday Kids, a UK-Taiwan-Hong Kong series project by Hong Kong director Kiwi Chow and the team behind Beyond The Dream, received the Catchplay International Spotlight Award.
Separately, Hong Kong director Oliver Chan’s Montages Of A Modern Motherhood, which premiered at Busan’s News Currents competition and Tokyo’s Women’s Empowerment strand, won the Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) Award, while Happyend by Japan-US director Neo Sora received the Observation Missions for Asian Cinema Award at the ongoing Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.
Golden Horse Film Project Promotion 2024 winners
FPP
Grand Prize [NT$ 1,000,000]
On the Seesaw – Dir/wri. Nell WANG / EPs. SHEN Ko-shang, Anne WU / Pro. HSIEH Chun-yao / Prodco. Woo Hah Production
Taipei Golden Creativity Award [NT$ 600,000]
The Day Before Tomorrow – Dir. LEE Yi-fang / Screenwriter: LEE Yi-fang / EPs. TSAI Yin-chuan, Evan Murray COLBERT / Pro. CHEN Pao-ying / Prodco. G-Spot Ent.
TAICCA Original Award [NT$ 600,000]
Western Trust Family – Dir. Remii HUANG / Screenwriter: LO Ya-li / EPs. YEN Yi-wen, Olive TING / Pros. Claudia TSENG, Charlie CHEN / Prodco. Luckysparks
My Ancestors: PUA Masters – Dir. CHEN Shin-chi / Screenwriter: HSIEH Tsung-chen / EPs. TSENG Han-hsien / Pro. PENG Shiang, LIU Hou-yu / Prodco. The Tag-Along Co., Ltd.
Isolation – Dir. YU Chih-chieh / Screenwriter: YU Chih-chieh, LIN Shi-zhao / EPs. Terry FU Tien-yu / Pro. Claire TAN / Prodco. Reticent Veterans Film Ltd.
Hakka Creative Award [NT$ 400,000]
Aoharu Point – Dir. CHIANG Chin-lin / Screenwriter: Hermes LU, Yvette CHOU / EPs. Gavin LIN, Dennis YANG / Pros. Ariel WANG, Peter CHEN / Prodco. Kadokawa Corporation, Smile Hours Entertainment Ltd., Studio76 Original Productions Co., Ltd.
Judicial Creative Film Award [NT$ 350,000]
On the Seesaw – Dir. Nell WANG / Screenwriter: Nell WANG / EPs. SHEN Ko-shang, Anne WU / Pro. HSIEH Chun-yao / Prodco. Woo Hah Production
More Future Award [NT$ 350,000]
Aoharu Point – Dir. CHIANG Chin-lin / Screenwriter: Hermes LU, Yvette CHOU / EPs. Gavin LIN, Dennis YANG / Pros. Ariel WANG, Peter CHEN / Prodcos. Kadokawa Corporation, Smile Hours Entertainment Ltd., Studio76 Original Productions Co., Ltd.
Wake Me Up When the Mourning Ends – Dir. LAU Kok-rui / Screenwriter: LAU Kok-rui / EPs. WONG Kew-soon / Pro. WONG Kew-soon / Prodco. Janji Pictures Production Sdn. Bhd., Thousand Sails Pictures Limited
ZW Ingenuity Award [NT$ 300,000]
Water Of Immortality – Dir. LIN Chun-yang / Screenwriter: Vincent TSAI, Nikki CHANG Yi-ning / EPs. CHANG Yung-chang / Pro. Steve WANG / Prodco. thuànn Taiwan Film Corporation
Dawning Jade Entertainment Film Award [NT$ 300,000]
Aoharu Point – Dir. CHIANG Chin-lin / Screenwriter: Hermes LU, Yvette CHOU / EPs. Gavin LIN, Dennis YANG / Pros. Ariel WANG, Peter CHEN / Prodcos. Kadokawa Corporation, Smile Hours Entertainment Ltd., Studio76 Original Productions Co., Ltd.
Works in Progress
Taipei New Horizon Screenplay Award [NT$ 400,000]
Blind Love – Dir. Julian CHOU / Screenwriter: River WU / EPs. Ariel LIN, Patrick Mao HUANG / Pro. CHEN Pao-ying / Prodco. Chou’s Entertainment Ltd.
Activator Market Potential Award [NT$ 300,000 in-kind digital marketing budget]
One Day in the Future
Series
Judicial Creative Series Award [NT$ 350,000]
Godless – Pro. CHEN Yu-li, FANG Hsuan / Screenwriters: CHEN Yu-li, ZHAN Jie, KUO Po-shen / Dir. CHEN Kuan-chung / Prodco. Mirror Fiction Inc.
MyVideo Creative Series Award [NT$ 300,000]
Reincarnated As A Character In A Taiwanese Soap Opera, But I Can’t Speak Taiwanese! – Pros. Harry SHUEI, Elsie YEH / Screenwriter: CHEN Bo-zong / Dirs. Harry SHUEI, CHEN Bo-zong / Prodco. Bai Studio Co., Ltd.
Catchplay International Spotlight Award [NT$ 300,000]
Survival Guide For Doomsday Kids – Pro. LIN Shih-ken, Frankie CHUNG, Felix TSANG, NG Ka-leung / Screenwriters: Felix TSANG, Frankie CHUNG / Dir. Kiwi CHOW / Prodcos. Haven Productions Ltd., Outland Film Production
Dawning Jade Entertainment Series Award [NT$ 300,000]
Reincarnated As A Character In A Taiwanese Soap Opera, But I Can’t Speak Taiwanese! – Pros. Harry SHUEI, Elsie YEH / Screenwriter: CHEN Bo-zhong / Dir. Harry SHUEI, CHEN Bo-zhong / Prodco. Bai Studio Co., Ltd.
