Taiwan Brings a Whole Lot of Music – And a Magical Food Truck – to Annecy: ‘We Need to Work Harder to Make Our Characters Go Global’

Taiwan's animation and creative content industry is making a push for global recognition at this year's Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Despite abundant local talent, the country faces one stubborn reality: its domestic market is too small to sustain major productions alone. With backing from Taiwan's Creative Content Agency, studios have been bringing ambitious projects to the world stage—including the animated film 'YaYa'—in a determined bid to prove Taiwanese storytelling can compete internationally.

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