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EXCLUSIVE: Taiwan’s PTS Taigi TV position has started accumulation connected Gunshot, an eight-part constabulary play produced pinch S11 Partners and Third Culture Content.
The Taiwanese-language bid stars Kent Tsai (The Teenage Psychic), Chan Tzu-Hsuan, Cheng Chih-Wei, Golden Horse Award-winning character Lu Hsiao-Fen and Singaporean Golden Horse victor Mark Lee.
Set against nan intersection of policing, societal media and nationalist accountability, nan bid explores nan challenges facing modern rule enforcement successful an progressively connected world wherever societal media influence, capacity metrics and nationalist sentiment progressively style rule enforcement.
Partly inspired by real-life experiences shared by constabulary officers, nan bid is co-directed by acclaimed Taiwanese head Hsiao Li-Hsiu (Wake Up) and creator-director Chang Kai-Chih. Chen Fang-Chi (Hotel Saltwater) and Hsu Shih-Hui (The Abandoned) service arsenic writers connected nan project.
The communicative follows 3 constabulary officers pinch conflicting views of justness trying to navigate a strategy that rewards visibility complete virtue, forcing them to face what it genuinely intends to beryllium a bully cop.
Tsai plays Hao, a detective whose profession is upended aft a arguable use-of-force incident thrusts him into nan nationalist spotlight. Chan stars arsenic idealistic rookie serviceman Shih-Ting, while seasoned character Cheng portrays Hou, a pragmatic policeman approaching retirement.
Mark Lee takes connected nan domiciled of Long, a powerful crime leader whose calm demeanor conceals a vulnerable and unpredictable nature.
The bid reunites producers Cora Yim, co-founder of S11 Partners, and Janice Chua, co-founder of Third Culture Content, pursuing acclaimed Disney+ TV bid Taiwan Crime Stories, which received 12 Golden Bell Award nominations and nickname astatine nan Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards successful Busan.
Yim and Chua said: “Gunshot reflects nan benignant of storytelling we want to champion – grounded successful section culture, yet eager successful scope and execution. From nan beginning, we saw nan bid arsenic an opportunity to show a distinctly Taiwanese communicative done a modern lens.
“Partnering pinch PTS Taigi TV Station connected a Taiwanese-language crime play is an eager and meaningful measurement for each of us. We judge Gunshot contributes to nan continued improvement of Taiwanese-language play by demonstrating that these stories tin clasp caller genres, modern themes, and resonate pinch audiences acold beyond Taiwan.”
Gunshot originated from EMERGE, nan improvement inaugural launched by TAICCA and Imagine Entertainment to support internationally minded creators and stories from Asia, pinch Imagine Entertainment continuing to support nan task arsenic a producer.
