Taiwan Producer Patrick Mao Huang Unveils New Projects at Busan

Veteran Taiwanese producer Patrick Mao Huang unveiled several new projects at Busan‘s Asian Contents and Film Market on Saturday. They are to be co-produced by his Taipei-based Flash Forward Entertainment.

Directed by Shen Ko-Shang (“Two Juliets”), “Deep Quiet Room” is a feature film. “After his pregnant wife Yi-ting unexpectedly committed suicide, Ming decides to take care of his father-in-law, only to find out the unbearable truth of Yi-ting’s family that leads to her death,” reads the synopsis. The project participated at the 2022 MIA Market in Rome, the 2022 Tokyo Gap-Financing Market and the 2020 Taipei Golden Horse FPP Project Market.

“The Sleepless Girl,” by feature debutant François Chang, won the most creative project award at the 2019 Shanghai International Film Festival Market. “​As a Japanese girl, sleepless for 17 years, finally succumbs to slumber, the world teeters on the brink of catastrophe. Meanwhile, a Taiwanese YouTuber unravels a staggering revelation, thrust into a maelstrom of arduous decisions,” reads the synopsis.

Documentary “Mothers in Transit” by Wei Dai and Chang Tzu-Hsiang is supported by TAICCA and participated in the Locarno Film Festival Pro Match Me! and the Taiwan Creative Content Fest Pitching Forum in 2022. “For years Taiwanese women have sought Ukrainian surrogates to achieve their dream of parenthood. When the Russian Invasion disrupts the surrogacy business, the dream of parenthood for Taiwanese mothers and the livelihood of Ukrainian surrogates face serious challenges,” the synopis reads.

VR project “The Island of Shells,” directed by Chang Hao-Yuan, Wei Shiue-Ying and Ko Chia-Wen, is an  interactive shadow-puppetry animation documentary based on the witness testimony of Fred Him-San Chin, a political prisoner of Taiwan’s White Terror era in the 1970s.

Huang has three films at the Busan International Film Festival this year, Charles Hu’s “As the River Goes By,” Nelicia Low’s “Pierce” and Amanda Nell Eu’s “Tiger Stripes.”