Actors Turn Directors at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Project Market

The producing debuts of two actors are among the 27 film projects selected for the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion.

The project market is attached to the Golden Horse Film Festival, held annually in Taiwan.The selections comprise 22 efforts still at project stage and five which are works in progress.

They include Taiwanese productions and co-productions with the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong and Malaysia.

They were whittled down from more than 200 applications.Former Golden Horse Award-winning actress Lee Sinje (“The Eye”) is set as the executive producer of the Malaysian title “ABang ADik” directed by Jin Ong, a previous winner of the Golden Horse Fpp Grand Prize.

Ariel Lin (“A Choo”), two-time winner of Golden Bell best actress, is the producer of Chou Mei-yu’s “The Blind Love,” a Taiwan project.Other Taiwan projects include “Detention” producer Aileen Li teaming up with Lin Chun-yang, Golden Bell best director winner, to co-direct “SARStorm”; “Call of Lobster,

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