The 16th annual video industry event, the ContentAsia Summit, takes place in Taipei on 3-4 September 2024, opening with a Special Series Screening on 2 September 2024 and closing on the evening of 5 September with the annual ContentAsia Awards
The ContentAsia events are part of the Trendy Taipei festival. In more than 20 sessions over two days at the ContentAsia Summit, international delegates will hear from content leaders in Asia and around the world about premium video content production and distribution trends and strategies across the Asia region, including AI and virtual production, the development of large-scale Asia original TV series, the necessity for a distribution reset, and the new face of global collaborations.
The 2024 ContentAsia Awards takes place at a ceremony & party at CornerMax. The Awards celebrate Asia’s best premium video/TV content in 27 categories, including Best TV Drama Series Made in Asia for local and regional/international markets, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Original Game Show, Best Original Song and Best Factual Entertainment Programme. The full list of categories is here.
Over 140 shows have been nominated in the 2024 Awards. This year’s nominees were chosen by almost 80 judges, hand-picked from across industry sectors in Asia and the rest of the world. Also, more than 500 entries from 13 countries/territories in Asia were submitted for the ContentAsia Awards this year, a record for the five-year-old event. This year’s entries came from China, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
Adding to the expanded 2024 conference agenda, ContentAsia and Taiwan-based international streamer, GagaOOlala, are partnering for the first time to present a series of conversations on 5 September that highlight gains in the LGBTQ+ space. The focus will be on international co-productions involving Asia, storytelling trends, and greater genre diversity, including the rise of non-scripted gay dating series.
Janine Stein, ContentAsia Publisher and Editorial Director and ContentAsia Awards’ President highlighted the creative potential of Taiwan: “Although the ContentAsia Summit and Awards retain a strong regional focus, being in Taiwan for the first time allows us to highlight Taiwan’s rising power as a creative centre and a global Chinese production hub, the strengths of a lively production community more determined than ever to welcome international partnerships, and an open environment that prizes free speech and an exchange of ideas,” commented.
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