The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) is an international cultural initiative overseen by the
Asia Pacific Screen Academy and headquartered in
Australia
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, sometimes called "Asia-Pacific Oscars". In order to realise
UNESCO
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's goals of promoting and preserving the different cultures through the influential medium of cinema, it honours and promotes the films,
actor
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...
s, directors, and cultures of the
Asia Pacific area to a worldwide audience.
Event history
APSA was established in 2007 and works with
FIAPF, the
International Federation of Film Producers Associations. An international jury selects the winners, and films are evaluated based on their cinematic quality and how well they reflect their cultural backgrounds. More than 70 nations and regions in the Asia Pacific region are represented by APSA, which introduces their films to new international audiences. It is a sister organisation to the
European Film Academy
The European Film Academy is a group of European film director, filmmakers who come together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988.
Every year, the European Film Academy honors films an ...
and
Premios PLATINO del Cine Iberoamericano.
Nominees are inducted into the Asia Pacific Screen Academy. Australian screen legend,
Jack Thompson AM, is the President of the Academy.
Members of the International Jury in the past include
Tran Anh Hung,
Annemarie Jacir,
Anocha Suwichakornpong
Anocha Suwichakornpong (, born 1976) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter and producer. She is currently Professor of Film at Columbia University, where she advises thesis students in the MFA Film Program and teaches film directing. ...
,
Garin Nugroho,
Diana El Jieroudi,
Eric Khoo,
Mike Downey Mike Downey may refer to:
* Mike Downey (columnist) (1951–2024), American newspaper columnist
* Mike Downey (producer) (fl. 1980s–2020s), Irish-British film producer
See also
* Mike Downie (fl. 1990s–2020s), Canadian documentary filmm ...
,
Rubaiyat Hossain,
Alexander Rodnyansky,
Nia Dinata,
Deepak Rauniyar,
Jill Bilcock,
He Saifei,
Adolfo Alix Jr,
Asghar Farhadi,
Anthony Chen,
Hiam Abbass,
Lu Yue,
Maciej Stuhr,
Rajit Kapur,
Shyam Benegal,
Malini Fonseka,
Nansun Shi,
David Puttnam
David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, HonFRSA, HonFRPS, MRIA (; born 25 February 1941), is a British-Irish film producer, educator, environmentalist and former member of the House of Lords. His productions include '' Chariots of Fire' ...
,
Sergey Dvortsevoy,
Salman Aristo,
Gina Kim,
Samuel Maoz,
Kaori Momoi,
Tahmineh Milani,
Jan Chapman,
Sasson Gabai,
Tian Zhuangzhuang,
Aparna Sen,
Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford (; born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director, opera director, screenwriter, and producer. He began his career during the Australian New Wave, and has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career, both locally ...
,
Huang Jianxin,
Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi (born 18 September 1950) is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. Her career in the Hindi cinema, Hindi film industry has spanned Shabana Azmi filmography, over 160 films, mostly within independent and neorealist paral ...
and
Jafar Panahi.
Film categories and awards
The following types of film are eligible for submission of movies:
[
* ]Feature Film
A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a film (Film, motion picture, "movie" or simply “picture”) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole present ...
(60+ minutes)
* Animated Film
Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animati ...
(40+ minutes)
* Youth Film (60+ minutes and made for and/or about young people to the age of 18 years)
* Documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
(40+ minutes)
following accomplishments are recognised with the following awards:[
* FIAPF Award, for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia Pacific region
* Cultural Diversity Award for the outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through film
* Young Cinema Award in partnership with NETPAC and Griffith Film School, recognises the abundant emerging talent of the Asia Pacific.
]
Major award winners
Other awards
On November 29, 2018, the 12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards presented the Best Original Score Asia Pacific Screen Award for the first time. The head of the jury for the first-ever award was Ryuichi Sakamoto
was a Music of Japan, Japanese musician, composer, keyboardist, record producer, singer and actor. He pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the Synthesizer, synth-based band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his ...
. This new category is intended to "honour more excellent films and the musicians who contribute so profoundly to the emotions of the movie," according to APSA Chairman Michael Hawkins.
Winners and nominees
;2018
Footnotes
References
External links
Official website
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{{Continental film awards
Awards established in 2007
Australian film awards
Recurring events established in 2007
Australian television awards