Autumn Markets Part Two: Japan & Taiwan’s International Strategies

This edition of Streamlined is a recap of activity at Tokyo International Film Festival, its accompanying contents market TIFFCOM and Taiwan Creative Content Fest, also touching on the international strategies of Japan and Taiwan, which are currently looking like two of the healthier film and TV economies in East Asia, although of course this is all relative..

Before we get stuck in, I just wanted to thank everyone who wrote or messaged me after the last edition of Streamlined, about the possible over-supply of projects/content and lack of focus on distribution solutions, which seemed to touch a chord with many people. Rather than try to summarise what everyone said here, I’ll try to pull everything together for a separate newsletter before the end of the year, but there are clearly structural issues in the industry that need to be addressed.

Speaking of structural issues – I just want to highlight a story that broke today about India’s indie filmmakers coming together to campaign for greater screen access at the country’s multiplexes and other cinemas (see full story here). This is a situation that needs to be addressed by so many territories.

And also a big story that broke last week – about Australia finally introducing local content investment obligations for global streamers, which will be explored in more detail in the second part of the 'Streamlined Guide to Streaming Levies and Investment Obligations', to be published soon.