Asia Pacific Screen Awards
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The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) is an international cultural initiative of the State Government of Queensland
, Australia
, through Events Queensland, to honour and promote the films, actors, directors, and cultures of Asia-Pacific to a global audience and to realise the objectives of UNESCO
to promote and preserve the respective cultures through the influential medium of film. Staged for the first time in 2007, APSA collaborates with UNESCO and FIAPF-International Federation of Film Producers Associations. Winners are determined by an international jury and films are judged on cinematic excellence and the way in which they attest to their cultural origins. APSA takes the works of filmmakers across more than 70 countries and areas in the Asia-Pacific region to new international audiences.
Nominees are automatically inducted into The Academy of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, a growing world-class body of Asia-Pacific filmmakers. Australian screen legend, Jack Thompson AM, is the Patron of The Academy, and Vice Patron is Alicia Mayer Beverley, niece of Louis B Mayer, founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The fourth annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards were held on Australia’s Gold Coast on December 2, 2010. 31 films from 15 countries and areas competed for the region's highest accolade in film with major awards going to films from People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Israel, Australia, Turkey, Islamic Republic of Iran and India. The 2010 International Jury President was Lord David Puttnam
, Academy Award winning producer of Chariots of Fire
, The Mission
and The Killing Fields
.
Awards are presented for the following achievements:
In addition, three special awards are presented for outstanding achievement.
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, through Events Queensland, to honour and promote the films, actors, directors, and cultures of Asia-Pacific to a global audience and to realise the objectives of UNESCO
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
to promote and preserve the respective cultures through the influential medium of film. Staged for the first time in 2007, APSA collaborates with UNESCO and FIAPF-International Federation of Film Producers Associations. Winners are determined by an international jury and films are judged on cinematic excellence and the way in which they attest to their cultural origins. APSA takes the works of filmmakers across more than 70 countries and areas in the Asia-Pacific region to new international audiences.
Nominees are automatically inducted into The Academy of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, a growing world-class body of Asia-Pacific filmmakers. Australian screen legend, Jack Thompson AM, is the Patron of The Academy, and Vice Patron is Alicia Mayer Beverley, niece of Louis B Mayer, founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The fourth annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards were held on Australia’s Gold Coast on December 2, 2010. 31 films from 15 countries and areas competed for the region's highest accolade in film with major awards going to films from People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Israel, Australia, Turkey, Islamic Republic of Iran and India. The 2010 International Jury President was Lord David Puttnam
David Puttnam
David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, FRSA is a British film producer. He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, although he is not principally a politician.-Early life:...
, Academy Award winning producer of Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British film. It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice....
, The Mission
The Mission
- Film and theater :* The Mission , 1986 film by Roland Joffé* The Mission , a.k.a. Cheung fo, by Johnnie To* The Mission , 1980 German play by former East German playwright Heiner Müller, also known as The Task- Music :* The Mission , the original score album of the 1986 film by Ennio Morricone*...
and The Killing Fields
The Killing Fields
The Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War ....
.
Film Categories and Awards
Films can be submitted in one or all of four film categories:- Feature FilmFeature filmIn the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
- Animation Feature FilmAnimationAnimation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
- Children’s Feature FilmChildren's filmA children's film is a film aimed for children as its audience. As opposed to a family film, no special effort is made to make the film attractive for other audiences. The film may or may not be about children. In Unshrinking the Kids: Children's Cinema and the Family Film which is a chapter in In...
- Documentary Feature FilmDocumentary filmDocumentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
Awards are presented for the following achievements:
- Best Feature FilmAsia Pacific Screen Award for Best Feature FilmThe winners and nominees of the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Feature Film are* 2007 Secret Sunshine - Republic of Korea - Kim In-Soo, Lee Chang-Dong, Hanna Lee**Caramel - Lebanon - Anne-Dominique Toussaint...
- Best Animated Feature FilmAsia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature FilmThe winners and nominees of the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film are* 2007 5 Centimeters Per Second - Japan - Noritaka Kawaguchi...
- Best Documentary Feature FilmAsia Pacific Screen Award for Best Documentary Feature FilmThe winners and nominees of the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Documentary Feature Film are* 2007 Beirut Diaries: Truth, Lies and Videos - Lebanon - Mai Masri and Jean Chamoun...
- Best Children’s Feature FilmAsia Pacific Screen Award for Best Children’s Feature FilmThe winners and nominees of the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Children's Feature Film are* 2007 Denias, Singing on the Cloud - Indonesia - Ari Sihasale...
- Achievement in DirectingAsia Pacific Screen Award for Achievement in DirectionThe winners and nominees of the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Achievement in Directing are* 2007 Rakhshan Bani Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab - Mainline - Iran**Nadine Labaki - Caramel - Lebanon...
- Best ScreenplayAsia Pacific Screen Award for Best ScreenplayThe winners and nominees of the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Screenplay are* 2007 Gandhi, My Father - India - Feroz Abbas Khan**Lucky Miles - Australia - Michael James Rowland and Helen Barnes...
- Achievement in CinematographyAsia Pacific Screen Award for Achievement in CinematographyThe winners and nominees of the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Achievement in Cinematography are:*2009 Winner: Nanjing! Nanjing! People's Republic of China. Cinematographer: Cao Yu** 2009 Nominees:...
- Best Performance by an Actress
- Best Performance by an Actor
In addition, three special awards are presented for outstanding achievement.
- The FIAPF AwardFIAPF AwardThe FIAPF Award is awarded by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations for an outstanding achievement in film in the Asia-Pacific region. The winners of this award are...
: The International Federation of Film Producers AssociationsFIAPFThe FIAPF based in Paris, created in 1933, is an organization composed with 31 member associations from 25 of the leading audiovisual production countries...
(FIAPF) determines the winner of the award for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia-Pacific region. - The UNESCO AwardASPA UNESCO AwardThe winners of the Asia Pacific Screen Award UNESCO Award are...
: The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Award is for the outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through film. - The Jury Grand PrizeASPA Jury Grand PrizeThe Asia Pacific Screen Award Jury Grand Prize is presented at the discretion of the jury. The winners of this award are...
: The Jury of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards can, at its discretion, present a further award