2026 Kaohsiung Film Festival combines XR technology and Netflix workshops to create an immersive film and television industry experience

[Reporter Zhong Zhijun/Reporting from Taipei] The 2026 Kaohsiung Film Festival not only allows audiences to sit in the theater and watch movies this year, but also brings the entire "film and television behind-the-scenes universe" to Kaohsiung. Taiwan's largest immersive imaging performance platform "XR DREAMLAND" will hold industry events at Pinway, the Pier 2 Art Zone, on October 16th and 17th. 10 lectures will be arranged over two days, bringing together 33 domestic and foreign XR creators, producers and industry experts. The highlight is that all tickets are free.

XR Industry Forum | When history and adventure meet Taiwan’s large space. (Provided by Kaohsiung Film Festival)

The span of XR content this year is quite crazy, from "Artemis: Mission to the Moon" and "First Ascent of the Century: Mount Everest 1953" to discuss large-space immersive experience, to "New York Underworld" and "Darkroom" to explore how VR can reawaken life and memory; on the second day, it even extended all the way to the Venice Film Festival XR competition works, Japanese contemporary cross-border creation, Sanrio Virtual Music Festival, as well as topics such as rainbows and spiritual memory. To the general audience, it feels like they are seeing what future entertainment will look like, but to the creators, it is more like bringing the international XR industry scene before their eyes.

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XR Industry Forum | The special aesthetic form of contemporary XR. (Provided by Kaohsiung Film Festival)

Another eye-catching main line of the Kaohsiung Film Festival is that it once again cooperates with Netflix to launch the "Push One Workshop-Industry Lecture". On October 19th, first of all, Hong Zixuan, the director of "Black and White Scavenger", and Guan Weijie, the director of "The Body", talked about "ACTION! A hard-core interpretation of Taiwanese temple culture and traditional beliefs!", breaking down the most Taiwanese temples and belief elements, and how to transform them from folk scenes into an image language that the audience can understand and even go global.

Next, the topic that Huang Tihui and Zhu Zhiying were going to talk about was also very interesting. It was named "Actors are always doing translation - I want to be able to transform". From language, role to performance internalization, they talked about how actors can "turn themselves into another person".

2026 Netflix (Provided by Kaohsiung Film Festival)

Finally, the director and screenwriter of "The Miracle in the Emergency Room" Huang Jingzu started the lecture with a very emotional sentence: "Adapting other people's success stories is much harder than original creation, okay? Please!", breaking down the choices between characters, plots and the spirit of the original work when adapting the novel into a TV series. Just looking at the topic of the lecture is very similar to the real OS of the creator.

The 2026 Kaohsiung Film Festival will be held from October 9th to 26th, extending from the Kaohsiung City Cinematheque and Neiwei Art Center to Pier 2, VR Somatosensory Theater and LIVE WAREHOUSE.

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