APSA Vessel returns home to Japan
2011 special presentation to Noritaka Kawaguchi by APSA Patron Kim Dong ho. Guest Blog by Noritaka Kawaguchi First of all, we thank you for all of your support following the big disaster in Japan on 3.11. We received an APSA vessel in 2007 when 5 Centimeters Per Second won the Best Animated Feature Film award, [...]
APSA CEREMONY AND INTERVIEWS TO FEATURE ON THE AUSTRALIA NETWORK
The Australia Network will broadcast a special Asia Pacific Screen Awards program across the region on December 18. The program will feature the stunning fifth APSA ceremony, held recently on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Nominee and film industry luminaries, including some of the brightest stars of Asia Pacific cinema, came together on the Gold [...]
Program of APSA films to screen at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Mr Tree (Hello! Shu Xian Sheng) (2011) Winner of Best Performance by an Actor, Wang Baoqiang. The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) is to showcase a selection of feature films from the winners and nominees of the 2011 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The program – Asia Pacific Screen Awards Winners Circle – runs [...]
APSA ANNOUNCES $140,000 IN DEVELOPMENT GRANTS TO SIX NEW ASIA PACIFIC FILMS
Six script development grants totalling more than $140,000 were announced last night at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The grants are offered to filmmakers from the Asia Pacific region under two funds – the MPA APSA Academy Film Fund, an initiative of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), and [...]
A SEPARATION AND ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA WIN MAJOR AWARDS AT APSA
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (A Separation) Asghar Farhadi’s Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (A Separation, Islamic Republic of Iran) has taken out the Best Feature Film Award at the fifth annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards, announced this evening. Asghar Farhadi, who wrote, produced and directed the film, accepted his Award at the APSA Ceremony on the [...]
The Green Way to meet across countries made possible by Cisco
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) Nominations Council met in late September to determine Nominees in the fifth annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards, the region’s highest accolade in film. For the first time, the Council utilised cutting edge technology that provides a face-to-face meeting experience live through the Cisco intelligent network. The deliberations of Nominations [...]
ASIA PACIFIC’S FINEST FILMMAKERS GATHER ON THE GOLD COAST FOR MAJOR FILM AWARDS
Asia Pacific’s finest filmmakers are gathering on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, ahead of the fifth annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards Ceremony to be held on Thursday November 24. The filmmakers represent 37 films from 19 countries and territories nominated in the 2011 APSAs, as well as APSA’s International Jury headed by leading Hong Kong [...]
GOLD COAST FILM FESTIVAL FEATURES APSA FILMS AND GUESTS
The Gold Coast Film Festival kicks off this weekend, November 21 with its Opening Night Film – APSA Best Feature Film and Achievement in Directing Nominee Let The Bullets Fly (People’s Republic of China – Mainland China / Hong Kong). Five films nominated in this year’s APSAs will screen at the Festival which runs through to [...]
MORE THAN 70 FILMMAKERS FROM 25 COUNTRIES SUBMIT ENTRIES IN APSA FUNDING INITIATIVES
More than 70 filmmakers from 25 countries have submitted entries to the 2011 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund and the new APSA Children’s Film Fund. The two funds, available exclusively to members of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, offer script development grants to stimulate the development of feature film projects originated by APSA Academy members [...]
Dream of ‘promised land’ wins Asian cinema prize
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards today announced that the Winner of the annual APSA NETPAC Development Prize is Filipino filmmaker Sheron R. Dayoc for his film Halaw (Ways of the Sea). Designed to nurture outstanding talent in the region, a prize of US$5,000 is offered by APSA in collaboration with the Network for the [...]
CHINA’S ZHANG YIMOU TO RECEIVE APSA 2011 FIAPF AWARD
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) and FIAPF—International Federation of Film Producers Associations announced today that Chinese film producer and director Zhang Yimou will be the 2011 recipient of the FIAPF Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film in the Asia-Pacific region. The honour will be awarded at the fifth annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards ceremony [...]
LEADING AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTOR AND MARKETER ALAN FINNEY JOINS APSA JURY
Alan Finney, one of Australia’s most experienced and successful film distributors and marketers, has become the sixth member of the 2011 International Jury of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA). Alan Finney joins Jury President, the legendary Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi, Cameron Bailey, Co-director of the Toronto International Film Festival, Japanese director and actress [...]
MPAA’s Senator Chris Dodd to deliver APSA Keynote
Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) will deliver the Keynote Address at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, 2011. The Keynote Address will be given on Wednesday November 23, a day before the Awards ceremony, at a special presentation at Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, [...]
Asia Pacific Screen Awards nominated films to screen at Gold Coast Film Festival
Opening night film: Let the Bullets Fly, written and directed by Jiang Wen. The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) and the Gold Coast Film Festival have announced that five films nominated in this year’s APSAs will screen at the Gold Coast Film Festival (GCFF), which runs November 21-27. The five nominated films to screen are [...]
Nominees List
Best Feature Film Bé Omid É Didar (Goodbye) Islamic Republic of Iran Produced by Mohammad Rasoulof Rang zidan fei (Let the Bullets Fly) People’s Republic of China (Mainland China / Hong Kong) Produced by Ma Ke, Albert Lee, Yin Homber, Barbie Tung, Zhao Haicheng Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) [...]
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