Thai drama Solids By The Seashore has been acquired by Japanese distributor Foggy Cinema from Bangkok-based sales agent Diversion.
The film, which won the Netpac Award and LG Oled New Currents Award at Busan in October, will receive its Japanese premiere in competition at the Osaka Asian Film Festival on March 7. It marks the first time Foggy Cinema has picked up a film for distribution from Thailand and a theatrical release is being planned for late 2024.
Thai director Patiparn Boontarig’s debut feature set in a southern town in Thailand on the verge of an environmental crisis and revolves around...
The film, which won the Netpac Award and LG Oled New Currents Award at Busan in October, will receive its Japanese premiere in competition at the Osaka Asian Film Festival on March 7. It marks the first time Foggy Cinema has picked up a film for distribution from Thailand and a theatrical release is being planned for late 2024.
Thai director Patiparn Boontarig’s debut feature set in a southern town in Thailand on the verge of an environmental crisis and revolves around...
- 2/5/2024
- ScreenDaily
‘This Is What I Remember’ was the first submission by the Asian country in more than 20 years.
Kyrgyzstan’s Oscar selection committee has turned down the US Academy’s request to submit another title for the international feature film category following the rejection of Aktan Arym Kubat’s This Is What I Remember.
The film from the Central Asian country did not make the final list as its release date fell outside the Academy’s release window.
According to Oscar regulations, international feature film submissions must have received a local release between December 1, 2022 and October 31, 2023 in order to qualify. However,...
Kyrgyzstan’s Oscar selection committee has turned down the US Academy’s request to submit another title for the international feature film category following the rejection of Aktan Arym Kubat’s This Is What I Remember.
The film from the Central Asian country did not make the final list as its release date fell outside the Academy’s release window.
According to Oscar regulations, international feature film submissions must have received a local release between December 1, 2022 and October 31, 2023 in order to qualify. However,...
- 11/24/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
The drama is the latest feature of Sheron Dayoc, known for ‘Ways Of the Sea’ and ‘Women Of The Weeping River’.
Mai Meksawan’s Thailand-based sales agent Diversion has picked up international sales rights to Sheron Dayoc’s The Gospel Of The Beast, which is set to premiere in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
It marks the first feature in seven years from Filipino filmmaker Dayoc, whose titles include Way Of The Sea, which received a special mention at the Berlinale in 2011; The Crescent Rising, winner of best documentary at Busan 2016; and Sundance-backed Women Of The Weeping River.
Mai Meksawan’s Thailand-based sales agent Diversion has picked up international sales rights to Sheron Dayoc’s The Gospel Of The Beast, which is set to premiere in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
It marks the first feature in seven years from Filipino filmmaker Dayoc, whose titles include Way Of The Sea, which received a special mention at the Berlinale in 2011; The Crescent Rising, winner of best documentary at Busan 2016; and Sundance-backed Women Of The Weeping River.
- 10/20/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Some twenty aspiring film projects have been selected to participate in the inaugural edition of the Qcinema Project Market (Nov. 18-19) that this year represents and expansion of the QCinema Film Festival in The Philippines’ Quezon City.
The selected titles include development projects by several of East Asia’s better known independent and art-house directors and projects. Among them is “Filipinana,” which on Tuesday collected three prizes at Busan’s Asian Project Market. Another is “Fox King,” by well-established Malaysian filmmaker Woo Ming Jing, which will also travel to the Tokyo Gap Financing Market. Also lining up is established Singapore filmmaker Boo Junfeng and producer partner Raymond Phathanavirangoon with “Medium.”
The 20 selected projects are vying for over $400,000 in grants and prizes, including a $35,000 co-production grants for Southeast Asian projects and $50,000 for Filipino projects.
“From an impressive submission of sixty five projects from all over the region, these selected projects really...
The selected titles include development projects by several of East Asia’s better known independent and art-house directors and projects. Among them is “Filipinana,” which on Tuesday collected three prizes at Busan’s Asian Project Market. Another is “Fox King,” by well-established Malaysian filmmaker Woo Ming Jing, which will also travel to the Tokyo Gap Financing Market. Also lining up is established Singapore filmmaker Boo Junfeng and producer partner Raymond Phathanavirangoon with “Medium.”
The 20 selected projects are vying for over $400,000 in grants and prizes, including a $35,000 co-production grants for Southeast Asian projects and $50,000 for Filipino projects.
“From an impressive submission of sixty five projects from all over the region, these selected projects really...
- 10/11/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Projects from directors Martika Ramirez Escobar and Maung Sun among titles.
Full Circle Lab Philippines, the Southeast Asian project and talent development programme, has revealed the line-up for its upcoming fifth edition, including new features by Filipino filmmaker Martika Ramirez Escobar and Myanmar’s Maung Sun.
The labs will comprise 12 projects in development, three films in post-production, eight emerging producers and three story editors. A total of 45 participants and 14 mentors are set to participate in the in-person workshop, held in the Central Luzon region in the north of Manila from March 27-31, This will be followed by online sessions, which run until September.
Full Circle Lab Philippines, the Southeast Asian project and talent development programme, has revealed the line-up for its upcoming fifth edition, including new features by Filipino filmmaker Martika Ramirez Escobar and Myanmar’s Maung Sun.
The labs will comprise 12 projects in development, three films in post-production, eight emerging producers and three story editors. A total of 45 participants and 14 mentors are set to participate in the in-person workshop, held in the Central Luzon region in the north of Manila from March 27-31, This will be followed by online sessions, which run until September.
- 3/6/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Hong Kong’s Haf adds 15 Wip projects ahead of first in-person edition since 2019.
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society has announced 15 work-in-progress projects, completing the full line-up of the 21st Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF21).
A total of 43 projects will be presented at Haf, including 28 in-development projects announced last month, which is set to run from March 13-15 alongside the 27th Hong Kong Film & TV Market (Filmart). It will mark the first in-person edition for both events since pre-Covid 2019.
Scroll down for full list of projects
Emerging and established actors who lead the cast of the 15 Wip projects include Fish Liew,...
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society has announced 15 work-in-progress projects, completing the full line-up of the 21st Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF21).
A total of 43 projects will be presented at Haf, including 28 in-development projects announced last month, which is set to run from March 13-15 alongside the 27th Hong Kong Film & TV Market (Filmart). It will mark the first in-person edition for both events since pre-Covid 2019.
Scroll down for full list of projects
Emerging and established actors who lead the cast of the 15 Wip projects include Fish Liew,...
- 2/8/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Fifteen additional work-in-progress films are set to join the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) that takes place next month alongside the FilMart rights market. They join 28 previously announced in-development projects.
The 21st edition of Haf runs March 13-15 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and will be the first physical, in-person edition of the project event since 2019. All the work-in-progress projects will take part in a public pitching session on the first day.
The work-in-progress selection skews heavily towards Chinese language titles, with three originating in Hong Kong and the majority of the others from mainland China.
Leading names attached to the selected work-in-progress titles include producers Stanley Kwan (“Centre Stage”), Mai Meksawan (“Manta Ray”) and Ram Krishna Pokharel (“The Red Phallus”). Emerging and established actors including Fish Liew, Austin Lin, Ma Chih-Hsiang, Matsuda Ryuhei, Wang Xuebing, Wu Kang-Ren, and Zu Feng grace various projects.
The 21st edition of Haf runs March 13-15 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and will be the first physical, in-person edition of the project event since 2019. All the work-in-progress projects will take part in a public pitching session on the first day.
The work-in-progress selection skews heavily towards Chinese language titles, with three originating in Hong Kong and the majority of the others from mainland China.
Leading names attached to the selected work-in-progress titles include producers Stanley Kwan (“Centre Stage”), Mai Meksawan (“Manta Ray”) and Ram Krishna Pokharel (“The Red Phallus”). Emerging and established actors including Fish Liew, Austin Lin, Ma Chih-Hsiang, Matsuda Ryuhei, Wang Xuebing, Wu Kang-Ren, and Zu Feng grace various projects.
- 2/8/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Mai Meksawan’s Thailand-based production, sales and distribution company Diversion has picked up international sales rights to “This Is What I Remember,” a film by Kyrgyz director Aktan Arym Kubat.
“This Is What I Remember” tells the story of an amnesiac old man, played by the director himself, who returns to his homeland after 23 years of ordeals in foreign lands. Events take place in a village in Kyrgyzstan, where he is brought by his adult son. Much has changed during his absence. These include the morals of the villagers, the realities of a changing world, the rise of radical Islam, crime and corruption.
The film had its world premiere in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October and subsequently won the Jury Grand Prize at the Australia-based Apsa Awards.
The film is a co-production between Kyrgyzstan producers Kyrgyzfilm and Oy Art, with Volya Films (The Netherlands), Bitters End...
“This Is What I Remember” tells the story of an amnesiac old man, played by the director himself, who returns to his homeland after 23 years of ordeals in foreign lands. Events take place in a village in Kyrgyzstan, where he is brought by his adult son. Much has changed during his absence. These include the morals of the villagers, the realities of a changing world, the rise of radical Islam, crime and corruption.
The film had its world premiere in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October and subsequently won the Jury Grand Prize at the Australia-based Apsa Awards.
The film is a co-production between Kyrgyzstan producers Kyrgyzfilm and Oy Art, with Volya Films (The Netherlands), Bitters End...
- 12/14/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Drama from Kyrgyzstan’s Aktan Arym Kubat won the jury grand prize at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
Bangkok-based outfit Diversion has secured world sales rights to This Is What I Remember, the latest drama from leading Kyrgyz filmmaker Aktan Arym Kubat.
The film premiered in competition at Tokyo International Film Festival in October and received the jury grand prize at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards last month.
It is a co-production between Kyrgyzstan’s Kyrgyzfilm and Oy Art, the Netherlands’ Volya Films, Japan’s Bitters End, and France’s Mandra Films.
The story follows a man, played by Kubat,...
Bangkok-based outfit Diversion has secured world sales rights to This Is What I Remember, the latest drama from leading Kyrgyz filmmaker Aktan Arym Kubat.
The film premiered in competition at Tokyo International Film Festival in October and received the jury grand prize at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards last month.
It is a co-production between Kyrgyzstan’s Kyrgyzfilm and Oy Art, the Netherlands’ Volya Films, Japan’s Bitters End, and France’s Mandra Films.
The story follows a man, played by Kubat,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Indonesian director Kamila Andini’s “Before Now and Then” was named best film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The film’s lead actor Happy Salma was on hand to receive the award at a ceremony in Gold Coast, Australia, on Friday.
The film recounts the story of a young woman who escapes an anti-Communist purge and leads a quiet life as the second wife of a wealthy man. But her past traumas resurface in her dreams.
Although the win is the first time that an Indonesian title has been named Apsa’s best film, and the first time that a woman has claimed the prize, it is the third time that Andini has won a feature film Apsa. Previously, she won the best children’s film prize with “The Mirror Never Lies” in 2012 and collected the youth feature film prize with “The Seen and Unseen” in 2017.
Other key prizes...
The film recounts the story of a young woman who escapes an anti-Communist purge and leads a quiet life as the second wife of a wealthy man. But her past traumas resurface in her dreams.
Although the win is the first time that an Indonesian title has been named Apsa’s best film, and the first time that a woman has claimed the prize, it is the third time that Andini has won a feature film Apsa. Previously, she won the best children’s film prize with “The Mirror Never Lies” in 2012 and collected the youth feature film prize with “The Seen and Unseen” in 2017.
Other key prizes...
- 11/11/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Sale also secured in Spain for Bui Kim Quy’s ‘Memoryland’.
Bangkok-based sales agent Diversion has boarded Amir Bashir’s The Winter Within, which is set to world premiere in competition at Busan International Film Festival this week.
The film focuses on a couple torn apart by the violent military conflicts in the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan. Indian actress Zoya Hussain stars as a domestic helper who is desperately waiting for her husband to return from the war. Hussain is known for her breakthrough role in Anurag Kashyap’s The Brawler, which premiered at Toronto in 2017.
Kashmir-born director...
Bangkok-based sales agent Diversion has boarded Amir Bashir’s The Winter Within, which is set to world premiere in competition at Busan International Film Festival this week.
The film focuses on a couple torn apart by the violent military conflicts in the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan. Indian actress Zoya Hussain stars as a domestic helper who is desperately waiting for her husband to return from the war. Hussain is known for her breakthrough role in Anurag Kashyap’s The Brawler, which premiered at Toronto in 2017.
Kashmir-born director...
- 10/3/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
First two features are Berlinale Forum titles ’Memoryland’ and documentary ’Scala’.
Leading Thai production outfit Diversion is expanding into sales with a debut slate at the EFM headed by Kim Quy Bui’s Memoryland and Ananta Thitanat’s documentary Scala, both playing in the Forum at the Berlinale.
Memoryland, which explores death and spirituality in contemporary Vietnam, premiered in Busan’s New Currents competition, while Scala is an ode to Bangkok’s last standalone cinema, which was demolished last year.
The line-up also includes feature documentary Scene Unseen by the late Singaporean director Abdul Nizam and friends, which premiered at...
Leading Thai production outfit Diversion is expanding into sales with a debut slate at the EFM headed by Kim Quy Bui’s Memoryland and Ananta Thitanat’s documentary Scala, both playing in the Forum at the Berlinale.
Memoryland, which explores death and spirituality in contemporary Vietnam, premiered in Busan’s New Currents competition, while Scala is an ode to Bangkok’s last standalone cinema, which was demolished last year.
The line-up also includes feature documentary Scene Unseen by the late Singaporean director Abdul Nizam and friends, which premiered at...
- 2/11/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
First two tiitles are Berlinale Forum titles Memoryland and feature doc Scala.
Leading Thai production outfit Diversion is expanding into sales with a debut slate at the EFM headed by Kim Quy Bui’s Memoryland and Ananta Thitanat’s documentary Scala, both playing in the Forum at the Berlinale.
Memoryland, which explores death and spirituality in contemporary Vietnam, premiered in Busan’s New Currents competition, while Scala is an ode to Bangkok’s last standalone cinema, which was demolished last year.
The line-up also includes feature documentary Scene Unseen by the late Singaporean director Abdul Nizam and friends, which premiered...
Leading Thai production outfit Diversion is expanding into sales with a debut slate at the EFM headed by Kim Quy Bui’s Memoryland and Ananta Thitanat’s documentary Scala, both playing in the Forum at the Berlinale.
Memoryland, which explores death and spirituality in contemporary Vietnam, premiered in Busan’s New Currents competition, while Scala is an ode to Bangkok’s last standalone cinema, which was demolished last year.
The line-up also includes feature documentary Scene Unseen by the late Singaporean director Abdul Nizam and friends, which premiered...
- 2/11/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Films from Asia are struggling to compete at this year’s major film festivals. That’s not necessarily a reflection on their artistic merits, but a symptom of a painful 2021 divide between the film industry’s East and West.
A full-sized Cannes festival was noticeably light on Asian selections, and the same goes for the Venice Film Festival. Toronto has cut its overall lineup by two thirds and its extensive Asian program has shrunk in proportion.
Locarno’s selection leaned the other way and assembled a strong Southeast Asia selection, along with its Open Doors industry program, and saw its Golden Leopard top prize awarded to Thailand’s “A Useful Ghost.”
The heart of Asia’s festival troubles is a combination of Covid-related travel restrictions and a mistrust of hybrid and online festivals by rights holders and distributors. A change of direction by the Chinese industry adds another, smaller complication.
A full-sized Cannes festival was noticeably light on Asian selections, and the same goes for the Venice Film Festival. Toronto has cut its overall lineup by two thirds and its extensive Asian program has shrunk in proportion.
Locarno’s selection leaned the other way and assembled a strong Southeast Asia selection, along with its Open Doors industry program, and saw its Golden Leopard top prize awarded to Thailand’s “A Useful Ghost.”
The heart of Asia’s festival troubles is a combination of Covid-related travel restrictions and a mistrust of hybrid and online festivals by rights holders and distributors. A change of direction by the Chinese industry adds another, smaller complication.
- 9/4/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Thailand’s arthouse films, frequently employing stellar craft in service of slow cinema, often struggle to achieve meaningful theatrical releases in a home market that is driven by the young multiplex crowd. But Thai cultural films are earning growing attention on the festival and international specialty circuits.
After Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s big-screen return to Cannes this year with “Memoria” and Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s Locarno-winning “A Useful Ghost,” the Venice Film Festival finds room for “Anatomy of Time,” the sophomore work of Jakrawal Nilthamrong, in its Horizons section.
In 2015, Nilthamrong’s “Vanishing Point” won the Tiger Award for best film at the Rotterdam Festival.
His new work charts two fragments in a woman’s life. In the 1960s countryside, against the background of tensions between the military dictatorship and Communist rebels, a young woman is imbued with the philosophies of her clocksmith father. Her romance with a rickshaw driver is shoved...
After Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s big-screen return to Cannes this year with “Memoria” and Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s Locarno-winning “A Useful Ghost,” the Venice Film Festival finds room for “Anatomy of Time,” the sophomore work of Jakrawal Nilthamrong, in its Horizons section.
In 2015, Nilthamrong’s “Vanishing Point” won the Tiger Award for best film at the Rotterdam Festival.
His new work charts two fragments in a woman’s life. In the 1960s countryside, against the background of tensions between the military dictatorship and Communist rebels, a young woman is imbued with the philosophies of her clocksmith father. Her romance with a rickshaw driver is shoved...
- 9/2/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The deal marks the second time that Rediance has worked with Anocha Suwichakornpong following Krabi, 2562.
Beijing-based sales agent Rediance has picked up international rights to Berlinale Forum title Come Here, directed by Thailand’s Anocha Suwichakornpong.
The deal marks the second time that Rediance has worked with Anocha, following Krabi, 2562, which she co-directed with Ben Rivers. The film played as the opening title of the Moving Ahead section of Locarno film festival in 2019.
Come Here, which receives its world premiere in Berlin, revolves around four friends, all actors from the same theatre company, who visit a Second World War memorial site,...
Beijing-based sales agent Rediance has picked up international rights to Berlinale Forum title Come Here, directed by Thailand’s Anocha Suwichakornpong.
The deal marks the second time that Rediance has worked with Anocha, following Krabi, 2562, which she co-directed with Ben Rivers. The film played as the opening title of the Moving Ahead section of Locarno film festival in 2019.
Come Here, which receives its world premiere in Berlin, revolves around four friends, all actors from the same theatre company, who visit a Second World War memorial site,...
- 2/23/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Other winners included Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili for ’Beginning’.
Ivan Ayr’s Milestone was named best film at the Silver Screen Awards, which closed the 31st Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) on Sunday (December 6).
The Indian drama, which premiered in Venice Horizons in September, also won the best performance award for Suvinder Vicky’s turn as an ageing Punjabi trucker who must keep his life’s work from falling apart.
It marks Ayr’s second feature after Delhi crime drama Soni, which also debuted in Horizons in 2018. Milestone has also played Pingyao and Stockholm film festivals.
The jury included filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues,...
Ivan Ayr’s Milestone was named best film at the Silver Screen Awards, which closed the 31st Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) on Sunday (December 6).
The Indian drama, which premiered in Venice Horizons in September, also won the best performance award for Suvinder Vicky’s turn as an ageing Punjabi trucker who must keep his life’s work from falling apart.
It marks Ayr’s second feature after Delhi crime drama Soni, which also debuted in Horizons in 2018. Milestone has also played Pingyao and Stockholm film festivals.
The jury included filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues,...
- 12/7/2020
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Singapore’s rising star director Anthony Chen, whose second feature film “Wet Season” opened the 30th Singapore International Film Festival, will co-produce Thai film project “Arnold is a Model Student” by first time feature director Sorayos Prapapan. His producing partners are Singapore’s Tan Si En, who also produced “Wet Season” and Thailand’s Donsaron Kovitvanitcha. The project depicts the story of a high school student who is involved in cheating during the entrance exam for a prestigious military school.
“Model Student” was one of the eight feature film projects selected by Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority as winners of its inaugural Southeast Asia Co-production Grant. The winners were announced on Monday (Nov. 25) as part of the ongoing Singapore Media Festival.
The Southeast Asia Co-production Grant is a funding program for projects that are directed by a Southeast Asian, but not Singaporean, filmmaker. The production team should involve at...
“Model Student” was one of the eight feature film projects selected by Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority as winners of its inaugural Southeast Asia Co-production Grant. The winners were announced on Monday (Nov. 25) as part of the ongoing Singapore Media Festival.
The Southeast Asia Co-production Grant is a funding program for projects that are directed by a Southeast Asian, but not Singaporean, filmmaker. The production team should involve at...
- 11/26/2019
- by Sonia Kil
- Variety Film + TV
South East Asian film fund, Purin Pictures has again handed out $170,000 of finance for a fistful of movie projects. The Spring grants include production support for three feature films, production support for a documentary, and post production aid for another documentary.
Launched in 2017 and operating an open submissions process for the second year, the fund received an increased number of funding applications. “The fact that we continue to see many strong projects from the Philippines and Singapore in particular tells us that these two countries have the most solid support structures for independent filmmaking within the region,” said fund director Aditya Assarat.
The fund will provide production grants of $30,000 each to: drama “Anatomy of Time,” to be directed by Thailand’s Jakrawal Nilthamrong, sand produced by Mai Meksawan; “Ajoomma,” a dramedy about a Korean TV obsessed widow, directed by He Shuming and produced by Tan Si En; “Yuni,” directed by...
Launched in 2017 and operating an open submissions process for the second year, the fund received an increased number of funding applications. “The fact that we continue to see many strong projects from the Philippines and Singapore in particular tells us that these two countries have the most solid support structures for independent filmmaking within the region,” said fund director Aditya Assarat.
The fund will provide production grants of $30,000 each to: drama “Anatomy of Time,” to be directed by Thailand’s Jakrawal Nilthamrong, sand produced by Mai Meksawan; “Ajoomma,” a dramedy about a Korean TV obsessed widow, directed by He Shuming and produced by Tan Si En; “Yuni,” directed by...
- 5/2/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Kamila Andini’s Yuni and Jakrawal Nilthamrong’s Anatomy Of Time among five projects to receive grants.
Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures has selected five projects to receive grants in its spring 2019 funding round.
Three fiction and one documentary projects will receive production grants of $30,000 each, while one documentary has been selected for the post-production grant, which comes with $50,000 worth of post-production services.
The four projects to receive production grants include:
Anatomy Of Time – director: Jakrawal Nilthamrong, producer: Mai Meksawan (Thailand/France/Netherlands/Germany)
A drama shifting between the present and the past, following Mam, a general’s wife, as...
Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures has selected five projects to receive grants in its spring 2019 funding round.
Three fiction and one documentary projects will receive production grants of $30,000 each, while one documentary has been selected for the post-production grant, which comes with $50,000 worth of post-production services.
The four projects to receive production grants include:
Anatomy Of Time – director: Jakrawal Nilthamrong, producer: Mai Meksawan (Thailand/France/Netherlands/Germany)
A drama shifting between the present and the past, following Mam, a general’s wife, as...
- 5/1/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Nadine Labaki takes director prize for Capharnaüm.
The jury of the 12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards has awarded the best film prize to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku), continuing the Palme d’Or winner’s dream run.
Full list of winners below
The film, which depicts a makeshift family living on the fringes of Japanese society, won the highest honour at the region’s film awards, which took place in Brisbane, Australia, tonight.
The best director prize went to Nadine Labaki for Capharnaüm (Lebanon).
Shoplifters’ win marks the first time that a Japanese film has won the best feature...
The jury of the 12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards has awarded the best film prize to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku), continuing the Palme d’Or winner’s dream run.
Full list of winners below
The film, which depicts a makeshift family living on the fringes of Japanese society, won the highest honour at the region’s film awards, which took place in Brisbane, Australia, tonight.
The best director prize went to Nadine Labaki for Capharnaüm (Lebanon).
Shoplifters’ win marks the first time that a Japanese film has won the best feature...
- 11/29/2018
- by Fiona Williams
- ScreenDaily
Japanese social drama “Shoplifters” was named best film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards on Thursday. Directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu, the film previously won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
“’Shoplifters’ turns an intimate story about an unusual family into a metaphorical social analysis that is relevant not only for Japan, but everywhere,” said “Leviathan” producer Alexander Rodnyansky, who headed the main prize jury.
The Jury Grand Prize, or second place award, went to “Burning,” by South Korea’s Lee Chang-dong. The best director prize went to Nadine Labaki for “Capernaum” (Lebanon).
The prizes were presented at a ceremony at the Exhibition & Convention Centre in Brisbane, Australia. Winners each receive a stunning glass ornament made by Brisbane artist Joanna Bone.
Those treading the red carpet included Mpa chief Charles Rivkin, popular Australian actor Jack Thompson, British filmmaker and educationalist David Puttnam, Singaporean director Anthony Chen,...
“’Shoplifters’ turns an intimate story about an unusual family into a metaphorical social analysis that is relevant not only for Japan, but everywhere,” said “Leviathan” producer Alexander Rodnyansky, who headed the main prize jury.
The Jury Grand Prize, or second place award, went to “Burning,” by South Korea’s Lee Chang-dong. The best director prize went to Nadine Labaki for “Capernaum” (Lebanon).
The prizes were presented at a ceremony at the Exhibition & Convention Centre in Brisbane, Australia. Winners each receive a stunning glass ornament made by Brisbane artist Joanna Bone.
Those treading the red carpet included Mpa chief Charles Rivkin, popular Australian actor Jack Thompson, British filmmaker and educationalist David Puttnam, Singaporean director Anthony Chen,...
- 11/29/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards are to increase their role in film funding through the establishment of a new film development prize worth $20,000.
The Apsa Academy Sun Yat-Sen Bo Ai Film Fund is launched as a venture between the awards body and the Sun Yat-Sen Cultural Foundation, a charitable organization founded by descendants of 20th century Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen.
The first recipient is “The Cave,” a treatment for a feature documentary about five women doctors who work in an underground hospital in war-torn Syria. The film is written and directed by Feras Fayyad. The announcement was made Thursday, during the Apsa ceremony in Brisbane Australia.
Selection of the winner was made by a committee involving producer and sales agent Alexandra Sun, festival selector Philip Cheah, and Apsa founding chairman Des Power. “(‘The Cave’) is a film that exudes compassion, the best of the human spirit at a time of the worst in human behavior,...
The Apsa Academy Sun Yat-Sen Bo Ai Film Fund is launched as a venture between the awards body and the Sun Yat-Sen Cultural Foundation, a charitable organization founded by descendants of 20th century Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen.
The first recipient is “The Cave,” a treatment for a feature documentary about five women doctors who work in an underground hospital in war-torn Syria. The film is written and directed by Feras Fayyad. The announcement was made Thursday, during the Apsa ceremony in Brisbane Australia.
Selection of the winner was made by a committee involving producer and sales agent Alexandra Sun, festival selector Philip Cheah, and Apsa founding chairman Des Power. “(‘The Cave’) is a film that exudes compassion, the best of the human spirit at a time of the worst in human behavior,...
- 11/29/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Bruce Beresford, nominated for Achievement in Directing at the Apsa Awards, on the set of ‘Ladies in Black’. (Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Releasing).
Four Australian films – Ladies in Black, Gurrumul, Breath and Mary Magdalene – have received nominations for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, to be held in Brisbane in November.
Overall, 46 films from 22 countries have been nominated for the awards, which celebrate films from the region.
The Palme d’Or winning Shoplifters, from Japanese auteur Kore-eda Hirokazu, is the only film to receive three nominations, including Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay and Achievement in Directing. It will compete for Best Feature Film against Burning (Korea), The Gentle Indifference of the World, Balangiga: Howling Wilderness (Philippines) and Manta Ray.
Competing against Kore-eda for the directing award is Australia’s Bruce Beresford, nominated for his work on 1960s comedy drama Ladies in Black. Also up in the category are Nadine Labaki...
Four Australian films – Ladies in Black, Gurrumul, Breath and Mary Magdalene – have received nominations for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, to be held in Brisbane in November.
Overall, 46 films from 22 countries have been nominated for the awards, which celebrate films from the region.
The Palme d’Or winning Shoplifters, from Japanese auteur Kore-eda Hirokazu, is the only film to receive three nominations, including Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay and Achievement in Directing. It will compete for Best Feature Film against Burning (Korea), The Gentle Indifference of the World, Balangiga: Howling Wilderness (Philippines) and Manta Ray.
Competing against Kore-eda for the directing award is Australia’s Bruce Beresford, nominated for his work on 1960s comedy drama Ladies in Black. Also up in the category are Nadine Labaki...
- 10/17/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Jakrawal Nilthamrong’s Anatomy Of Time will start shooting late 2018/early 2019.
Paris-based production house Damned Films has boarded Thai filmmaker Jakrawal Nilthamrong’s Anatomy Of Time as co-producer alongside Thailand’s Diversion and Mit Out Sound Films.
Nilthamrong previously directed Vanishing Point, which won the Tiger Award at Rotterdam film festival in 2015. His new project follows an old woman looking back at the regrets and disappointments of her life, while caring for her disgraced army general husband, who is lying in a coma.
Damned Films’ Yohann Cornu will produce the film with Diversion’s Mai Meksawan and Mit Out Sound’s Chatchai Chaiyon. Meksawan is also in talks with co-producers from Germany and the Netherlands.
The project has been granted development support from the Hubert Bals Fund and was also selected for Paris Coproduction Village last year. It is expected to start shooting in late 2018 or early 2019.
Cornu previously produced Brazilian filmmaker Fellipe Barbosa’s Gabriel And The Mountain, which premiered...
Paris-based production house Damned Films has boarded Thai filmmaker Jakrawal Nilthamrong’s Anatomy Of Time as co-producer alongside Thailand’s Diversion and Mit Out Sound Films.
Nilthamrong previously directed Vanishing Point, which won the Tiger Award at Rotterdam film festival in 2015. His new project follows an old woman looking back at the regrets and disappointments of her life, while caring for her disgraced army general husband, who is lying in a coma.
Damned Films’ Yohann Cornu will produce the film with Diversion’s Mai Meksawan and Mit Out Sound’s Chatchai Chaiyon. Meksawan is also in talks with co-producers from Germany and the Netherlands.
The project has been granted development support from the Hubert Bals Fund and was also selected for Paris Coproduction Village last year. It is expected to start shooting in late 2018 or early 2019.
Cornu previously produced Brazilian filmmaker Fellipe Barbosa’s Gabriel And The Mountain, which premiered...
- 2/20/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
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