Weta FX and Taiwan's TAICCA Plan an AI Screen Production Hub
Weta FX, the visual effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand, is partnering with Taiwan's Creative Content Agency on a plan to make Taiwan a centre for artificial intelligence (AI) driven film and TV production in Asia. Variety reported the partnership on 4 November.
The Taiwan Creative Content Agency, known as TAICCA, will launch the partnership on 6 November at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. The launch takes place on the festival's main stage, straight after the opening ceremony.
The plan has three strands. The first is joint investment. The second is research and development into AI tools for screen work. The third is training new talent to use them.
Speakers at the launch will include TAICCA chair Sue Wang, Weta FX chief executive Daniel Seah, chief technology officer Kimball Thurston and visual effects supervisor Sheldon Stopsack. Seah grew up in Taiwan, which gives the partnership a personal link as well as a business one.
TAICCA was set up in 2019 by Taiwan's Ministry of Culture to support the island's film, animation, games and digital content industries. Weta FX has worked on some of the biggest effects projects in cinema, including the Avatar films. Its most recent Avatar work was on Avatar: Fire and Ash, released in 2025. The company has offices in Wellington, Vancouver and Melbourne. Weta FX appeared at the Taoyuan International Film & Technology Forum in August, ahead of this announcement.
The festival itself runs from 6 to 9 November 2026 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, and it is organised by TAICCA. Variety reported in September that the TCCF Market would host 107 exhibitors from seven countries. The market is also introducing Spotlight Screenings, a new programme for buyers to view projects in more depth.
Co-production is a big part of the event. Projects made by teams from more than one country account for over 60% of the official selections in the TCCF PITCHING programme, where filmmakers pitch projects to potential backers. Co-productions let studios share costs and reach, and they are a common route for projects to find funding and distribution across borders.
What comes next will be seen in Taipei. The launch on 6 November will be the first public step, and the details of the joint investment and training programmes will show how far the plan goes.
