Delegates of the Taiwan Cultural Content Agency (TAICCA), the new organization for fostering domestic cultural content industries and the Taiwan Film Institute (TFI), the national organization charged with the mission to preserve and promote Taiwan and Chinese films, are currently in Greece to attend this year’s Syros International Film Festival. The delegation visited the Taipei Representative Office in Greece July 15, 2019.
TAICCA Director of Global Marketing Dept. Jill CHEN, TFI Head of the Documentary Department Wood LIN and Jessie YANG of the International Promotion Department met with Representative Sherman S. Kuo and exchange extensively on Taiwan films’ international promotion and how to further Taiwan-Greek film exchange and cooperation.
The Syros International Film Festival will be held in the Greek island of Syros between July 17 and 21, 2019. The film festival’s organizer has cooperated with the TFI and the Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival. During the film festival, the "Short Glimpses of Taiwan”( Taiwan Short Films Collection, two parts) will be screened. The delegation will attend the film festival and Curator Wood LIN and Director Pang-chuan HUANG will host a Taiwan film seminar.
On the same day, the delegates also met with programmers of the "Athens International Film Festival" to establish contact discuss opportunities for future cooperation. They were scheduled to visit the Greek Film Archive on the next day.
TAICCA Director of Global Marketing Dept. Jill CHEN (first right), TFI Head of the Documentary Department Wood LIN (first left) and Jessie YANG of the International Promotion Department met with Representative Sherman S. Kuo.
Accompanied by TRO Director Eugenia Yun (center) and Secretary Authur Fanjiang (first left), the delegates meet with programmers of the "Athens International Film Festival."
