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The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Asia officially opened at the Spot Huashan Cinema in Taipei City on August 18, 2023, and announced the winner of the Sundance Film Festival Asia Short Film Competition. The award went to “Tuo Tuo” directed by An Chu. Many Hollywood and local celebrities walked the red carpet including Justin Lin (Director of the “Fast and Furious” franchise), Todd Makurath (Executive Producer of “Everything Everywhere All At Once”), Joachim Zell (Color Scientist from “Blade Runner 2049”), Dan Lin (Producer of “The Lego Movie”), Tzi Ma (Actor from “Rush Hour” series), Caitlin Fang (Actress from “American Girl”), Patty Lee (Actress from “My Missing Valentine”), Ke-Xi Wu (Actress from “Nina Wu”), Allison Lin (Actress from “Haru”), Teresa Daley (Actress from “Days We Stared at the Sun”), Sonia Yuan (Actress from “Summer Desire”), Angela Yuen (Actress from “The Narrow Road”), James Wen (Actor from “The Fierce Wife”), Janet Hsieh (Host from “Fun...

CAA has promoted five graduates of its CAA Elevate training program: Justin Corporan-Browning, Allison Lin, Pj Picon, Tiziana Vazquez and Sophie Wiener.

Corporan-Browning has been promoted to Agent in the Motion Picture Literary department, led by Dan Rabinow and Ida Ziniti, with Lin to serve as Strategic Communications Manager in the company’s Corporate Communications department.

Picon will work as an Agent in the Motion Picture Literary department, with Vazquez now serving as a Talent Agent, working alongside Christian Carino to create new business opportunities for a range of notable artists and companies.

Wiener has been elevated to Agent in the Digital Media department, where she will join the teams that work with leading gamer Ninja, internet personality Zach King and singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor, among others. All of the five training program grads promoted at CAA are based in Los Angeles.

Corporan-Browning began his career at CAA as an intern...

HBO Asia is to begin screening its first original romantic comedy series “Adventure of the Ring” from mid-December.

Joining other internationally-targeted shows made in Taiwan, “Adventure of the Ring” is directed by Helmed by Nelson Yeh and Kitamura Tayoharu.

The eight-part show is adapted from mathematician and author Lai I-Wei’s romance novel “Ring of the Day,” which tells the stories of different couples who come in contact with an engagement ring. Production is by Kbro Media’s Good Image Co. with the support of Taiwan Ministry of Culture (Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development) and the Taipei Film Commission.

The first two episodes will be uploaded to HBO and HBO Go from Dec. 13, 2020, with the remaining six instalments premiering one at a time on subsequent Sunday evenings.

The series stars Chris Wang (“Time Traveler,” “Love Family”) as a baseball-loving actuary, and Allison Lin (HBO’s “The World Between Us,...

For an actor it is necessary to leave the role and the fictional universe of the project behind in order to go into the real world. Independent of their methods of researching and preparing a character, many actors state they cherish the aforementioned distinction within their lives, especially when the role they are playing is emotionally and physically quite demanding. For actress Allison Lin, one of the stars of the Taiwanese TV series “Endless Love”, this concept may be quite important since the character she plays in the show deals with the thought of dying as she is suffering from terminal brain cancer. However, she and the rest of the cast have decided to overcome this border between fiction and reality, using their fame to support children and their parents in the fight against cancer, bringing some much-needed entertainment to them while also interviewing two “clown doctors” and showing their work.