MUMBAI: Taiwanese film The Song Of Siren annexed the top prize at the Film and TV Project Promotion (FTPP) of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. The award consists of development funds of $30,900 (NT$1m).

Tsai Yue-hsun‘s Black And White and Sky Silence by Leon Dai were also major winners at the FTPP.

The Song Of Siren, which is Shen‘s first feature film, is being produced by Taipei-based Flash Forward Entertainment that also produced Shen‘s recent documentary Baseball Boys. 

Adapted from the novel by the same name by Malaysian-Chinese novelist Zhang Guixing, the film is coming-of-age love story set in the rainforest.

The project also won a post-production award from Taipei-based Modern Cinema Laboratory, worth $6,000 (NT$200,000) in post-production services.

Tsai‘s Black And White, the film version of the Taiwanese TV drama of the same name, won the post-production service prizes from Taipei Post-production and Leader Asia Pacific Creativity Center.

The action film revolves around two cops working together to bring down a multinational organised crime gang.