The Golden Horse Awards was founded in 1962, the original intention was to promote Taiwanese film production and recognize excellent Taiwanese films and outstanding filmmakers. The Chinese Characters "Golden Horse," pronounced as “Kim Ma” in Chinese, are derived from the names of the two outlying islands of Kinmen and Matsu.
In 1990, the organization of the 27th Golden Horse Awards Competition was transferred from the Government Information Office to The Motion Picture Development Foundation R.O.C., and TGHFF Executive Committee was established under its authority.
The official name of The Golden Horse Awards has been changed to "Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival," which is not only the most important film event in Taiwan, the main activities also extend to four parts – Golden Horse Award competition, Film Festival, Film Project Promotion and Film Academy. The Golden Horse Awards aims at encouraging the development of Chinese-language films. The Film Festival intends for introducing excellent films to Taiwanese audience from around the world to stimulate exchange of ideas and inspire creativity. The Film Project Promotion aims to facilitate cooperation between Chinese filmmakers and international industry professionals. The Film Academy tries to promote young filmmakers’ vision by organizing masters’ classes for them.
The Executive Committee
The executive board of the Committee consists of seven to eleven film scholars and film industry professionals, including the Chairman. The Committee’s CEO appointed by the Executive Board of the Committee, leads five departments to handle all business: an administration department for internal administrative affairs, guest hospitality and cross-industry collaboration; a marketing department responsible for event planning and promotion, press coordination, advertising and publications; a competition department in charge of the competition and awards ceremony; a film project promotion department attended to the execution of the project meetings; and a festival department devoted to festival planning, curation of films and invitation of filmmakers. From 2022 onwards, Mark LEE Ping-bing as Chairman.
| Chair | Mark LEE Ping-bing |
| Committee Members | HOU Hsiao-Hsien, YANG Kuei-Mei, LIAO Ching-Sung, Tony HU, Edmond WONG, Eric SHIH, YANG Li-Chou, TU Duu-chih, CHUNG Yung-feng, Winnie TSANG |
| CEO | WEN Tien-hsiang |
| Department of Administration | |
| Director | Joanne WANG |
| Manager | LUO Shiow-lian |
| Accounting Manager | YEN Mei-ling |
| Accountant | Lynn CHEN |
| Treasurer | TANG Jui-ling |
| Coordinator | Elaine CHEN |
| Coordinator | TSAI Wen-shiuan |
| Department of Marketing | |
| Director | WANG Ting-hun |
| Project Manager | Vicky LEE |
| Press Manager | Nowia LEU |
| Press Manager | Betsy LIAO |
| Press Coordinator | Tim LOU |
| Marketing Manager | Ethan HSU |
| Marketing Manager | Aaron TSUI |
| Event Coordinator | CHU Jun-jie |
| Screening Manager | LIN Chung-ho |
| Screening Manager | Errol HUNG |
| Screening Manager | TUNG Chen-ping |
| Coordinator | HUANG Yung-lin |
| Department of Competition | |
| Director | WANG Ting-hun |
| Deputy Director | HUANG Hui-lien |
| Competition Manager | SHIH Wan-ting |
| Competition Coordinator | LIN Ting-an |
| Competition Coordinator | KAO Yi-ting |
| Production Manager | CHEN Wei-chen |
| Production Coordinator | Chofey LIU |
| Competition Manager | Vey LO |
| Guest Manager | Wan Wan WENG |
| Department of Film Programme | |
| Director | Emma CHEN |
| Deputy Director | Therese YANG |
| Programme Manager | Yeni HSU |
| Programme Coordinator | Jesse LIN |
| Programme Coordinator | WEN Hsin-yu |
| Programme Coordinator | YEN Tzu-han |
| Department of Film Project Promotion | |
| Director | Christy WU |
| Academy Manager | SU Fu-yu |
| Project Manager | LIN Pin-chun |
| Financier Manager | Tony CHIU |
| Hospitality Coordinator | Zoe You-jia CHEN |
| Legal counsel | S. L. LIU, Shiu-lan HUANG |
