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IMMERSIVE INVESTMENT
Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) have entered a three-year partnership expanding Taiwanese immersive work in New York, building on a 2025 collaboration that drew more
than 3,000 screenings at near-90% daily capacity. The deal launches with two works running at MoMI through Sept. 6: “Proof As If Proof Were Needed,” an interactive installation by Taiwanese artist Ting-Tong Chang and British collective Blast Theory that took the Special Jury Award at 2025’s SXSW Festival, and “Sense of Nowhere,” a gesture-tracking VR work by Hsin Hsuan Yeh that debuted at the 2025 Venice Film Festival’s Immersive Competition. “Our collaboration with MoMI is central to that effort: it gives Taiwanese work a stable platform in North America where revenue, audiences, and institutional resources reinforce one another,” said Sue Wang, TAICCA chair.
KINETEC KICKOFF
The SKIP City D-Cinema International Film Festival will relaunch in 2027 as the SKIP City KINETEC International Film Festival, broadening the Saitama, Japan event beyond digital cinema to embrace artificial intelligence, virtual production and immersive technologies. Founded in 2004 as the first competitive festival dedicated to digital cinema, the event counts Palme d’Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan among its alumni. The rebrand introduces two new competition sections: a Feature & Short Film Competition and a NEXT Competition for AI-generated and vertical-format work. Submissions are now open and will close Aug. 31, with the festival running Jan. 31-Feb. 7, 2027.
DEAN DEBUT
The CHANEL X BIFF Asian Film Academy has named director Shin Su-won as dean for its 20th edition, the first woman to hold the role at the Busan-based training program. She is joined by Indonesian director Yosep Anggi Noen as directing mentor and cinematographer Park Junghun as cinematography mentor. This year’s academy drew 501 applicants from 34 countries and shifts its curriculum toward “Proof of Concept” shorts supporting fellows’ feature screenplays, with eight resulting shorts premiering at the 31st Busan International Film Festival, running Oct. 6-15.
