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Taiwanese animated feature Clouded Leopard, to be written and directed by Chi Po-chou and produced by Mangowork Studio, was presented with the TAICCA X CNC Award at the close of Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) on Friday.
The action adventure, presented in TCCF Pitching’s Project To Screen: Animation section, tells the story of pair of siblings working with a magical creature to rid the world of a polluting rain. The TAICCA X CNC Award, sponsored by French national film agency CNC and Taiwan Creative Content Agency, comes with a cash prize of US$30,000.
The top award in the Story To Screen section, the TAICCA Award for Best Story, went to Taiwanese fantasy horror comic Rest In Pieces, published by Balaena Islet Publishing. The award came with a cash prize of US$10,000 (TWD300,000).
This year’s TCCF Pitching section handed out a record $240,000 (NT$7.65M) in cash prizes and in-kind awards. In addition to Clouded Leopard, grand prize winners in the Project To Screen section included Calendar Studios’ Call Of Lobster, which won the $20,000 Chunghwa Telecom Award, and animation Chickie’s Small Café, which took the $10,000 NMEA Award. The jury also added a $10,000 Special Jury Award, presented to documentary The Alleyway, about Muslim immigrants in South Korea.
In the Project To Screen: Features section, Hsubox and Volos films’ Sunshower won both the Taichung Action Award and the QPM Award, presented by the Philippines’ QCinema Project Market. Don’t Worry About Vampire, presented by Silly Hunter, was also a multiple winner, picking up awards from Taipei International Film Festival and Korea’s BIFAN.
Multiple award winners in the Project To Screen: Series section included Singapore-Taiwan co-production Pontianaks In Taiwan, and The Top Percentile, a Taiwan-Malaysia collaboration, which both won three separate cash awards of US$10,000 (see full list of winners below).
Cash prize winners in the Project To Screen: Animation section included Chardo Animation’s Teewa and Reno Studios’ Something Great.
In addition to the Pitching section, the event hosted TCCF Market, with around 100 exhibitors, and the TCCF Forum section of panel discussions and presentations. The event took place November 5-8 at the Nangang Exhibition Center in the eastern suburbs of Taipei.
TCCF 2024 FULL LIST OF AWARDS:
PROJECT TO SCREEN: GRAND AWARDS
TAICCA X CNC AWARD (US$30,000):
Clouded Leopard (Mangowork Studio Co)
Special Jury Award (TWD300,000):
[*Newly added out of the judging panel’s appreciation for this year’s projects]
The Alleyway (Elephant Ears, Al Jazeera Documentary, Tambo Film)
Chunghwa Telecom Award (TWD600,000):
Call Of Lobster (Calendar Studios)
NMEA Award (TWD300,000):
Chickie Small’s Cafe (Happy Chips Co)
PROJECT TO SCREEN: FEATURE FILMS
Taipei International Film Award (TWD300,000): Don’t Worry About Vampire (Silly Hunter)
Taichung Action Award (TWD300,000): Sunshower (Hsubox Productions, Volos Films)
Genesis Wave Film Creative Award (TWD300,000): Bangkok Enigma (Wakeup Rabbit)
QPM Award (US$5,000): Sunshower (Hsubox Productions, Volos Films)
BIFAN+ Award: Don’t Worry About Vampire (Silly Hunter)
MIFFest Award (US$30,000 worth of post at The PostHouse Indonesia): Child, Uninvited (Haftix Films)
MPA Grand Prize: Polaris (Twenty First City)
Udine FEFF Award: Cubs (Forka Films)
PROJECT TO SCREEN: SERIES
CJ ENM HK Global Vision Award (TWD300,000): The Scammers (Calendar Studios Co)
MyVideo Award (TWD300,000): Pontianaks In Taiwan (Monkey & Boar, Great Kings Entertainment, Neverland Entertainment)
TVBS Storytelling Impact Grand Award (TWD300,000): No Activity (Lots Home Entertainment Co)
Taigi TV Award (TWD300,000): Pontianaks In Taiwan (Monkey & Boar, Great Kings Entertainment, Neverland Entertainment)
Formosa TV Award (TWD300,000): The Top Percentile (Kanvas Creations)
EBC Original IP Potential Award (TWD300,000): The Top Percentile (Kanvas Creations)
HakkaTV Award (TWD300,000): Sweet Man (Flower Road Production Co)
KFA Original Award (TWD300,000): Pontianaks In Taiwan (Monkey & Boar, Great Kings Entertainment, Neverland Entertainment)
First Bank Award (TWD300,000): Jumping Through Grandma (Juo Studios)
ZW Ingenuity Award (TWD300,000): The Top Percentile (Kanvas Creations)
Series Mania Award: Fly (Cinefrance Studios, Yoosonn Entertainment)
PROJECT TO SCREEN: ANIMATION FEATURES & SERIES
ADATA – Future Innovation Award (TWD300,000): Teewa (Chardo Animation Co)
Warner Bros Discovery Spotlight Award (TWD300,000): Something Great (Sumimasen, Reno Studios)
SEA Award – Malaysia: Takokuma’s Adventure Story
PROJECT TO SCREEN: DOCUMENTARY FEATURES & SERIES
CCDF Award: The Myth (MindMine Films)
Doc Edge Award: The Birdwatcher (Tagu Films, Pōtocol, Island X Pictures)
Docs by the Sea Award: When A Poet Goes To War (Singing Cicadas)
STORY TO SCREEN: FICTION & NON-FICTION, COMICS
TAICCA AWARD: Best Story (TWD300,000): Rest In Pieces (Balaena Islet Publishing Inc)
friDay Video Original Story Award (TWD300,000): Taiwanese Folklore ‒ The Crown Prince And The Boys On The Railways (Mirror Fiction Inc)
The Next Hit by Blintn Award (TWD 100,000): Killers’ Love Stories (Mirror Fiction)
GTV Best Originality Award (TWD 100,000): Reborn As Grandma: There Must Be Something More Important Than Inheritance (Kadokawa Taiwan Corporation)
SET TV NEXT STAR Award (TWD 100,000): Reborn As Grandma: There Must Be Something More Important Than Inheritance (Kadokawa Taiwan Corporation)
Shoei Potential Original IP Award (TWD 100,000): No Criminal Facts (Dyna Books, Keep Writing Studio)
CTS Original IP Award (TWD 100,000): Taiwanese Folklore ‒ The Crown Prince And The Boys On The Railways (Mirror Fiction)
STORY TO SCREEN: ORIGINAL STORY CONCEPT
Bronze Awards (TWD100,000): Goodbye, My Dear Beasts!, The Missing One
Silver Award (TWD200,000): The Elephant In The House
Gold Award (TWD300,000): Summer Ghost Friend, The Art Of Retribution
