Taipei TV and Film Festival

November 23-25, 2006 is Taipei TV and Film Festival at Taipei World Trade Centre (世貿中心). I've been there for the past 2 days to help out with PTS's booth in B2B Professional display region. There were booths from stations around the world (mostly Taiwan, Japan, Korea, China, etc). PTS shared the same booth with CTS (since we are sister companies under TBS. Ya, it's complicated). We have one of the biggest booth right at the entrance. On the first day, Jay Chou and other celebrities were there at the festival promoting for their 2008 movie "Slam Dunk". Later on in the afternoon, CTS held a press interview to promote their new drama, "寶島少女成功記(http://www.2cts.tv/prog/a/a0052/default.htm)". Many celebrities were there but the only one I know is 范逸臣 (the singer of "I Believe"). Many of the booths were really beautiful, especially the ones set up by Japanese cartoons (Nana, Naruto, etc were there to promote/sell their program). Outside of B2B, there was an area for general public to buy show products from the TV stations. I bought a Keroro and a Naruto luggage tag (so cute). There were also Keroro trucks and many other cute things on display (so cute too!!!).

So in conclusion, I got lots of freebies from the 2 days of festival I went to (oh wait, wasn't I supposed to be working!!??). I won't recommend the general public to go though because this festival is more targeted for professionals to buy/sell programs. Anyways, please continue to support original programs/movies!! ^^

White horse at TTV booth in section A (for general public)

This horse is a character from one of their drama series.

One of the Japanese cartoon booth "櫻蘭高校男公關部".

The set is very "princessy". It's surprising how much effort the Japanese companies put into a 3-day festival.

NANA!!!

My favorite comics!!!! It has been turned into cartoon recently and this is the booth to sell the program. The set is the same as the scene in the comic in apartment #707. Sooo cute!!! I love Nana!

Keroro Truck!

Yes, I'm 22 years-old, but I still took a picture with Keroro!! CTS is airing Keroro (a Japanese cartoon) so they had Keroro dolls, trucks, products everywhere for promo. PS. I like the pink character in that cartoon.

Taipei 101

This is the tallest building in the world as of 2006 (has held world-record for several years already). I think another building is being completed in Shanghai (?) next year that's supposed to be taller than 101. So I thought I'd take a pic of this while it's still the tallest ^^ The world trade centre is right beside Taipei 101. There is a department store, restaurants, and many offices in this building.