LIAO Ching-sung

Liao Ching-sung is a senior film editor, scriptwriter, director, and executive producer. In the following year after he graduated from the first edition of the CMPC film technician training course in 1973, Liao joined the CMPC Central Motion Picture Corporation. To date, Liao has edited more than a hundred films, and his first work as editor, He Never Gives Up, was nominated for Best Film Editing at the Golden Horse Awards. Liao has collaborated with many renowned Taiwanese directors such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Wan Jen, and Ko I-chen; together, they initiated New Taiwan Cinema and therefore, Liao is hailed as the “nanny of New Taiwan Cinema.” In addition to the film awards, Liao received the 10th National Award for Arts in 2006. As an editor, he is best known for The Boys from Fengkuei, Super Citizen Ko, That Day, on the Beach, Terrorizers, Dust in the Wind, A City of Sadness, and The Assassin. Liao’s directorial works include Be My Lovely Child Again and When the Ocean Is Blue.

Wang Shih

In 2003, Wang Shih launched his career in film distribution. Since then, he has distributed more than two hundred Taiwanese and foreign films and ventured into film festival, theatrical exhibition, cultural and creative agency, copyright licensing and project development. In 2011, Wang co-founded Activator Co., Ltd. with Lee Lieh and Ma Tien-tsung. To date, the company has participated in the sales and distribution of many popular features and documentaries, including Jump Ashin, The Assassin, Zone Pro Site, The Village of No Return, Panay, Go Grandriders, Hand in Hand, Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above, Fly, Kite Fly, The Walkers, Late Life: The Chien-ming Wang Story, Run for Dream, Formosan B.B. Is Coming, Untold Herstory and Incantation. Wang also served as executive producer on documentaries such as Formosa 3D, Chen Uen, No No Thought and Lost Butterfly and features such as I Weirdo, Papa Fujii's Unexpected Journey in preparation and Let’s Hit the Road in preparation. Moreover, Wang worked as associate producer on Detention, the highest-grossing film in Taiwan in 2019.

WANG Ken-yu

WANG Ken-yu is a senior festival organiser and producer as well as a documentary filmmaker. Over the last decade she has been a distinguished programmer at many film festivals, including the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Children Film Festival and Taiwan International Documentary Festival. She also produced the road movie, Island Etude, dir. En Chen, 2007, The Inspired Island Series of Eminent Writers from Taiwan, and Flowers of Taipei – New Taiwan Cinema. Recently, she focuses on image education.

Ken YU

Ken YU is the Managing Director of Sony Pictures Releasing Taiwan Corporation, Taiwan Branch. ​ He has more than 20 years of experience in the film industry and has served in marketing leadership roles at Walt Disney Studios, Sony Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox Taiwan. ​ Besides the global triumphs of Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle, Sony Pictures Taiwan has also released successful local films over the years, including Jay Chou’s Secret, i WEiRDO, Do You Love Me As I Love You, Your Name Engraved Herein, Man in Love and The Falls. ​ Recently Sony Pictures has activated their very first local production after office setup – Dead Talents Society directed by John Hsu.

Aileen LI

Aileen Li is a Taiwanese film producer who obtained a double master’s degree in law and communication studies from Northwestern University in the US. In recent years, she served as executive producer on various productions, including Detention, a film adaption of the popular video game of the same title, Netflix's first original Chinese-language series Nowhere Man and Eye of the Storm, a Golden Horse Film Project Promotion Grand Prize winner, which not only won five Taipei Film Awards, including Best Actor and Best Director but also received eight Golden Horse Award nominations, including Best Narrative Feature.

Ruby LIN

An actress, singer, producer, and presenter, Lin became famous after TV series My Fair Princess in 1999. Her career later expands to advertisements, TV shows, films, and series. Since starting her own studio in 2009, Lin has produced multiple works. She produced and acted the first television film Forgotten 2012, which was nominated for multiple Golden Bell Awards. In 2015, her series The Way We Were received overwhelmingly positive reviews for its refreshing story, and won three Golden Bell Awards Best Television Series, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Directing. In 2020, she produced the first film Miss Andy.
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In 2021, "Light the Night" premiered exclusively on Netflix worldwide, igniting a craze for binge-watching in Taiwan and garnering 11 nominations for the Golden Bell Awards.
In 2023, the production "Living" premiered on Netflix and various television. After its debut, it continued to generate continuous buzz, consistently ranking as the champion on both television and OTT platforms for several weeks.

Gavin LIN

Gavin Lin is a director and screenwriter known for his detailed portrayal of the characters and their emotions as well as the moving stories told in his films. His short films, Liberty Avenue and Erotica, were selected for many prestigious film festivals in Taiwan and abroad. Lin’s feature, More than Blue, grossed almost 150 million US dollars at the box-office worldwide. In recent years, Lin began serving as executive producer on productions, including More Than Blue: The Series, which received twelve nominations at the Golden Bell Awards and the film, Someday or One Day, whose global box-office reached nearly two billion US dollars.

Giddens Ko

Giddens Ko was born in Changhua in 1978. He graduated with a master’s
degree from the Dept. of Sociology, Tunghai University.
Since 2000, he has been publishing online novels with a variety of themes, which
make him popular among younger generations and establish his best-seller
author status. As of now on, he has written 82 novels, with his latest novel
released is “Bad Education”.
He has several film adaptations, including “The Killer Who Never Kills,
Café·Waiting·Love, You Are the Apple of My Eye, A-Choo, Precisely out of
control -Miss Shampoo, Monmonmonmonster among others.

Angie Chai

Since 2001, Angie Chai has produced more than thirty quality pop idol dramas, including Meteor Garden, opening new dimensions of the Chinese-language television drama. In 2005, her work, Mars, won Most Popular Television Drama of the Year at the Golden Bell Awards in Taiwan. In 2002, Chai was selected as “Stars in Asia” by Business Week. In 2011, Chai ventured into film and served as executive producer on You Are the Apple of My Eye, a huge box-office success in Asia. Subsequently, she continued working as executive producer on several films that caught the public attention, including Tiny Times, Café. Waiting. Love and The Tenants Downstairs. In 2013, Chia was the only woman selected as the Ten Most Promising Talents in China and Taiwan.

CHEN Ming-Ho

Animation filmmaker Chen Ming Ho has participated in film Double Vision and Fist & Faith and music video The Era by Jay Chou. His original Rock Rabbit received Best Visual Effect at the 16th Taipei Film Awards. Root was nominated at the 33rd Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Shell won Best Taiwanese Film at the 5th Golden Horse International Digital Shorts Competition.

Zoë C.J. Chen

Graduated from University of Edinburgh with Msc degree in European Film Studies, CHEN worked as Programme Director in Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival from 2006 to 2012, and as producer for 2010 Berlinale selected feature film One Day directed by Hou Chi-Jan. Currently CHEN works independently as curator for children film related activities, and translator for cinema subtitles and children picture books. She also works as Assistant Professor in the Department of Filmmaking in Taipei National University of the Arts.

Laha Mebow

Laha Mebow is the first indigenous female director in Taiwan . Her second drama Lakah Laqi entered Taipei Film Awards in 2016, and won Grand Prize. Lakah Laqi participated in the competition of Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Award on behalf of Taiwan.

Stefano CENTINI

Stefano CENTINI is an Italian-Taiwanese producer. After graduating from CSC Milan as creative producer and from the Taiwan National University of Arts with a master ’s degree in Broadcasting, he has worked on documentaries and feature films in Taiwan, where he founded his company, Volos Films, for more than ten years. His works include documentaries Absent without Leave, A Holy Family, Divine Factory, and feature films Far Away Eyes, The Settlers, Tomorrow is a Long Time, In My Mother’s Skin.

FU Tien-yu

Fu Tien-yu’s first feature, Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, was selected for many film festivals in Taiwan and abroad. The Happy Life of Debbie she directed won Best Television Film at the Golden Bell Awards and her other features include Cities in Love and My Egg Boy. In 2023, she made Day Off, which won Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor at the Taipei Film Awards and Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Film Song at the Golden Horse Awards in the same year.

Ho Chao-ti

Ho Chao-ti is a producer and director. For years, Ho has focused on the marginalized communities and social issues and is best-known for Turning 18, Sunflower Occupation, Sock'n Roll and My Fancy High Heels. Among her works, Turning 18 won the Press Award and El Salvador Journal won the Documentary - Jury Special Award at the Taipei Film Awards in 2019 and 2008 respectively. Her other festival and award records include the bronze in Social Issue and Current Affairs categories at New York Festivals TV & Film Awards, MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight in New York, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan, and Busan International Film Festival in Korea. In addition, Ho had served on the board of directors at Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute, Women Make Waves Film Festival and Taipei Documentary Filmmakers’ Union.

Yeh Jufeng

Yeh Jufeng is a senior film producer from Taiwan who has collaborated with directors from various generations. Their works over the years have been of high quality, and have received numerous nominations and awards at domestic and international film festivals. She was awarded the Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the year at 50th Golden Horse Film Festival. She is now the leader of Mandarin Vision and Wow Momentum.
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Some of her notable works include "Breaking and Re-Entering," "Trouble Girl", "Hachiko", "My Missing Valentine" , "A Sun", "The Great Buddha+" , "The Village of No Return" , "Our Times", "The Rice Bomber" "Zone Pro Site" , "GF*BF" , " The Wayward Cloud" , " What Time Is It There?"