COLD WAR HOT WAX

COLD-WAR-HOT-WAX_1

PROGRAM INFO

Title in Mandarin

冷戰諜聲

Program Type

TV SERIES

Year

2028

Program Status

Pre-Production

Duration

60 min x 8 ep

THEME / GENRE

THRILLER

Producer

KUO Ming-jung

Production Company

Island X Pictures

Festivals & Awards

CoProduction

Participation Goal

2025 Series Mania X TAICCA Taiwan Spotlight pitching

In 1960s Taiwan, amid Cold War anxieties and generational change, a pirate record dealer and his flight attendant sister, with an American beatnik CIA agent, are about to instigate an unlikely pop music revolution.

1966, Taipei. Brother and sister, Dizzy and Lulu Chen, are looking for opportunities in a rapidly changing world. Dizzy runs a GI bar for gangster, A Plus, and deals pop records on the side to American soldiers fresh from Vietnam. Lulu, flight attendant with CIA-backed airline, Civil Air Transport, brings the originals home in the baggage – between the corporate bribes she collects for Mme Chiang, and the Intel she gathers for her CIA handler, Alan Bounds. But Bounds’ days are numbered. He’s being overshadowed by his youthful colleague, beatnik prodigy Jerry Kovacs, new in town with his sonic experiments and fake radio transmissions. And Jerry needs a front for his project – a whole recording industry. Lulu senses an opportunity but A Plus has more sinister ambitions for Dizzy’s record dealing network. Meanwhile, events across the Taiwan Strait are turning the world upside down. Just right for a musical revolution.

SALES CONTACT

Company

ISLAND X PICTURES

JOB TITLE

Producer

Contact

KUO Ming-jung

Email

islandxpictures@gmail.com