Mirror Fiction Announces Fifth Award Winners and 2027 Slate at TCCF

Taiwanese literary IP developer and production company Mirror Fiction announced the winners of its fifth Mirror Fiction Award and unveiled five projects for its 2027 slate at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest.

Winners and Slates

The NT$1 million Grand Prize, worth $32,000, went to Iris Kong for her suspense novel "The Stand-In Family," which follows four strangers who impersonate a family inside a murder house under a property developer's watch. Kong, an engineer by profession, designed the story with a realistic setting to keep production costs low. The NT$700,000 Judges' Award, worth $22,500, went to Malaysian writer Liang Xuan for "Endless Rain." Both winning works qualify for publication and screen adaptation development. Mirror Fiction CEO Tung Cheng-yu stated that book-adapted films draw higher attendance than original films. The fifth edition of the award received 529 submissions totaling over 40 million Chinese characters.

2027 IP Projects

Sales director Sharleen Liu introduced five projects for the 2027 slate. Kevin Chen's contemporary romance "036037" follows two middle-aged people revisiting an old relationship and has already secured a screen adaptation deal. Tommy Tan's "The Midnight Masseuse: A Taipei Noir" is a crime thriller sparked by a murder. Daniel Hsieh's "Double Diplomacy" features two brothers who exchange identities and enter a diplomatic crisis. Nakao Eki Pacidal's "Red-Haired Inibs" follows a mixed-heritage girl in 17th-century Taiwan searching for her father. Kong's winning novel rounds out the five-project slate.

Context

Mirror Fiction develops written stories for books and screen adaptations, and has also moved into film and television production and investment. Its past credits include the Netflix series "The Victims' Game" and the film "The Falls." Book adaptations are frequently pursued by production companies because established literary worlds can help attract audiences more easily than entirely original screenplays.