Celine Kao

Biography

Celine KAO is a producer and writer born in Taiwan with 10 years’ experience in developing scripts and projects with international potentials, including IP development and digital marketing. Notably working as marketing planner in film distribution company and online streaming platform before she parting ways under creative differences. A strategic and highly motivated producer in developing promising female character-centric film projects, Celine is a versatile producer whose scope ranges from personal, independent films to commercial TV series. In 2021, she propelled the Taiwanese cult crime drama “The Amazing Grace of Σ” to being selected at the Series Mania and to having its Asia premiere at the Golden Horse Film Festival. From 2022, works primarily on the feature film project “The Horse”, Celine has taken part in Match Me!, the Locarno Pro program and EAVE Ties That Bind workshop, which devoted to building communities between emerging professionals from Europe and Asia within the international production landscape. In 2024, Celine had made a short film with the same motif, also named "The Horse," which premiered at the 2023 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and International Premiere at the 2024 Osaka Asian Film Festival, New York Asian Film Festival and won Best Narrative Short Film at the Taiwan Film Festival in Australia. The feature project soon selected by Taipei Golden Horse FPP and Focus Asia 2024 in Udine, Celine is committed to developing projects with international perspectives that also reflect contemporary social issues and the care for humanity. Currently, focusing on the post-production of the most popular Taiwanese immersive theatre-adapted series “The Great Tipsy : 1980s” and actively developing the first feature "The Horse", and the French-German-Taiwanese co-production project “She Makes and Unmakes”.