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Giloo is a video streaming platform focused on independent and art cinema, dedicated to supporting independent Asian creators and promoting the continuous creation and international connection of their works. Through online curation and offline screenings, it connects directors, audiences, and institutions, fostering deeper visual dialogue between creators and viewers. Giloo collaborates with international film festival curators and opinion leaders from various fields to curate thematic sections focusing on social issues, political movements, and artistic innovation. It also assists creators in managing copyright and revenue to enhance international visibility. In recent years, it has promoted the "Giloo Launchpad" project, providing tools such as crowdfunding, merchandise sales, online talks, and AI subtitles. By combining technology and community power, it aims to build a new-generation platform that allows creators to reclaim the lifecycle of their works and pushes Asian cinema to the global stage.

Monsoon Zone was established in 2017 to promote publications from Singapore and Malaysia to the Taiwanese market. In 2018, the Monsoon Zone Bookstore opened in Liuzhangli, Taipei, specializing in books on politics, economics, food, and literature from Southeast Asian countries. In 2019, the bookstore moved to Dadaocheng, and in the same year, its own publications were launched, featuring three main series: Monsoon Zone (academic works related to Southeast Asia), Literary Monsoon (focusing on Malaysian Chinese, Singaporean Chinese, and Hong Kong literature), and MZ Plus (focusing on light, easy-to-read essays). In 2021, the Monsoon Zone Bookstore opened in Kuala Lumpur. In 2025, the Monsoon Zone Dadaocheng store will move from ArtYard to its current location at MinArt.

Founded in 2016, Lightbox Photo Library is a photography-specialized library based in Taiwan, open to everyone, and non-profit. Before its establishment, we observed the deficiencies in Taiwan's photography environment: scattered local materials, expensive learning resources, and a lack of community space, causing the foundation of photography culture to gradually erode. Culture needs roots. Therefore, using the library as a method, we are dedicated to preserving, researching, and promoting Taiwanese photography publications. Through various projects, we deepen perspectives originating from Taiwan. Lightbox continues to promote community participation to practice the concepts of cultural co-construction and knowledge sharing. We hope to use the power of the many to create an open, equal photography culture that belongs to Taiwan.

Founded in 2013, Slowork Publishing focuses on exploring the possibilities of comics in the field of documentation and publishing original graphic novels. With "diversity" as its publishing core and "exploration of reality" as the starting point for creation, it gathers creators from East and Southeast Asia to seek a graphic narrative style that belongs to Asia. At the end of 2017, it released Tropical Monsoon (熱帶季風), Asia's first documentary comic magazine for adults. It connects Asian originals, introduces international classics, explores documentary power, and matches writers with illustrators, aiming to stir up a new wave of Taiwanese comics.

51 Personae is an art and publishing project based on reality and concerned with the human condition. Using various forms such as text, images, woodcuts, and exhibitions, it aims to explore the forms, functions, and potential of "realism" in the contemporary era. 51 Personae cares about the historical experiences and specific conditions of Asia and the Third World, encouraging the recording and transmission of local voices through all feasible and effective means.

One Way Street is the brand publication of OWSpace. Adhering to a global perspective, it discovers a new generation of creators and thinkers, publishing fiction, poetry, scripts, non-fiction, and social science works. It advocates for quiet, in-depth reading and respects sober, unique, and vibrant voices.

"Secret Balcony" was an exhibition project by One Way Street at the 2022 Beijing abC Art Book Fair, collecting and displaying a large number of works created under states of exception. In the winter of 2025, we are reproducing it at the True Story Festival in Tokyo. This time, we primarily present the output of One Way Street in non-fiction creation over the past few years, including the results of our collaboration with the "Frontline Fellowship" Award and various merchandise. The initial inspiration for the project came from a line by Spanish poet Federico García Lorca: "If I die, leave the balcony open!" Today, although this door has not fully opened, it has not completely closed either. So we continue to invite you to dialogue with these real memories and retrieve the sunken time.

Starting in March 2025, the "Nowhere / Rito Bookstore," a Chinese-language bookstore space jointly created by the brands Nowhere and Rito will take root on the bookstore street in Koenji, Tokyo. It hopes to form an archipelago-style cultural life with other spaces in Tokyo by offering a more diverse range of Chinese books, Japanese books on related themes, and cross-cultural exchange activities, serving Chinese-language readers in Japan as well as Japanese readers.

The Nowhere / Rito Bookstore in Tokyo, together with Nowhere bookstores in Taipei, Chiang Mai, The Hague, and Auckland, as well as "Nowhere Bookshelves" in collaboration with Monsoon Books in Washington D.C., Garden Books in San Francisco, and Elsewhere in Melbourne, weaves a network of the diasporic Chinese-language community.

During the Damn True Festival, Nowhere / Rito will participate in the market as a mobile bookstore. We have prepared speaker-related items for the festival—if you feel the lectures weren't enough, the speakers' extended reading works will satisfy your concern and curiosity. We also have independent zines made by Chinese-language creators from all over the world—light, gritty, exquisite, real... No need to emphasize "limited only"; zines are truly a "once-in-a-lifetime encounter". Through the festival market, we hope to let the talents of creators and their works be seen together.

A Risograph specialty shop from Osaka, Japan (Retro Insatsu JAM Taiwan Store). It primarily offers two types of printing services: "RETRO Risograph" (RISOGRAPH): The misalignment of stencil printing, the vivid yet rub-off ink, uneven coloring, and other imperfect and unpredictable retro printing effects—once you fall in love with them, it's hard to look away. "SURIMACCA Silkscreen": The SURIMACCA uncle drives a red silkscreen car. "Stretch, Print, Dry"—letting everyone feel the fun of manual printing. PIY (Print It Yourself)—print one, and you'll want to print a second one!

Do You A Favor is an organization serving the homeless and advocating regarding poverty. Originating in Taipei, it has gradually connected issues to various cities in Taiwan and East Asia. Since 2014, it has continuously initiated various public advocacy campaigns, issue research, and direct service projects, striving to become a "guide" between people and issues.

For DTF, under the theme "The Homeless Writing Stall" , we will display poetry collections and songs hand-created by homeless people in Taiwan, a dictionary jointly compiled to redefine vocabulary, and their insights on life. The figures of the homeless are obscured by stigma and fear in the eyes of most of the public; they bear society's fear of disorder and failure, as well as romantic imaginations of escape. Through verses and creation, people can truly appear and say what they want to say on the scene. These texts record how people of different genders, ages, and life trajectories view themselves, society, and being viewed.

Tiao Xie Jian is a space focused on taking good care of oneself, currently featuring a podcast of the same name and a WeChat public account. Its main content reflects on issues of physical and mental health, maintaining a balance between jumping and resting. "Jump": people always have to learn and work, jumping up to reach the fruit at high places; "Rest": but people also always need to rest, like a deer lying by the stream, drinking water and spacing out. Here, you can jump a little, then rest a little.

For the DTF, writer Ruobing and friends bring a series of content related to "the physical and mental health of contemporary workers", hoping that we can be full of spirit and physically strong during the processes of labor, living, and reading.

Reading Way (Dokudo K.K.) is a publishing house established in Tokyo in the autumn of 2023. Its original intention is "to preserve some valuable texts for Simplified Chinese reading". Japanese official statistics show that nearly 1 million Chinese people live in Japan. In recent years, the "Chinese" society in Japan has shown some new changes: more intellectuals are moving here, cultural lectures for Chinese people in universities are gradually increasing, and three or four Chinese bookstores have opened... A common feeling among some is that "a public life space for Chinese people is forming" in Tokyo. Based on this, we began publishing Simplified Chinese books in a free environment.

Originating from weekend online screenings initiated by the Caochangdi Workstation during the pandemic, and to continue creation and unrestricted online exchange, we borrow the name of "Mother" to explore and respond to era-defining issues such as family of origin, intimate relationships, self-growth, and social upheaval. The first edition of the Mother's Film Festival officially launched in March 2022, focusing on non-fiction creation. We hope to discover new authors who use real image creation to face current issues and to boost long-term creation.