Georgian drama “April” gained double honors on the annual Asia Pacific Movie Awards on Saturday, with Ia Sukhitashvili taking dwelling the Finest Movie and Finest Efficiency awards.
The movie, directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili, follows an obstetrician-gynecologist’s dedication when confronted with accusations of a new child’s dying. The movie premiered on the Venice and Toronto Movie Festivals in September, successful the Venice Particular Jury Prize and the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Competitors Finest Movie Award.
Sukitashvili attended the APSA Awards Ceremony in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia and accepted each awards.
Georgian filmmaker Tato Kotetishvili gained the APSA Finest Director Award for his debut darkish comedy “Holy Electrical energy,” about cousins in Tbilisi Tales of neon crosses being bought door to door.
Girls’s tales and movies from India have been additionally key themes among the many winners.
Payal Kapadia’s All We Think about as Gentle premiered in Cannes in Might and gained the APSA Grand Jury Prize on Saturday. The award, chosen on the discretion of the jury, went to a narrative about two working-class nurses in Mumbai.
Lakshmipriya Devi, a feminine director from India, gained the APSA Finest Youth Movie Award for “Boong”. Produced by Alan MacLex, Vikesh Bhutani, Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar and Shujat Sodargar, the movie tells the story of a The touching story of a younger boy from the distant state of Manipur who embarks on an journey to reunite along with his household.
The APSA Award for Finest Animated Movie went to “The Lacking” (also called “Iti Mapukpukaw”), a uncommon animated movie within the Filipino grownup science fiction style. No Different Land (Palestine, Norway) is directed by Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers Basel Adela, Rachel Saul, Hamdan Baral and Yuval Abraham, and tells the story of their A take a look at the violence and destruction that surrounds it, was named the winner for Finest Documentary.
Veteran New Zealand actor Cliff Curtis (The Boys, The Meg, Whale Rider, Columbia) has acquired an Worldwide Guild of Movie Producers Award for his dedication to producing Indigenous tales. On the Gold Coast occasion, Curtis spoke about Māori’s understanding of the individuals who exist between Mom Earth and Father Sky, acknowledging that APSA brings collectively many cultures. (APSA makes use of UNESCO’s definition of Asia, which extends from Palestine to New Zealand.)
All three beforehand introduced winners attended the awards ceremony and accepted their awards: Neo Sora gained the APSA Youth Movie Award in partnership with NETPAC for “Happyend”; Nepalese director Min Bahadur Bam gained the Youth Movie Award for “Shambha” ” accepted the Cultural Range Award; Georgia’s Knowledge Chachua gained the APSA Finest New Actor Award for “Panorama,” which additionally starred Sukitashvili.
This yr’s APSA essential jury is chaired by Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, and different members embrace “Loopy Wealthy Asians” star Chris Pang (Australia), Papua New Guinea and New Zealand producer Kerry Warkia, Korean movie producers, Educator and policymaker Park Kiyong and Kazakh producer Yulia Kim.
The APSA Youth, Animation, Documentary Worldwide Jury is led by Sabrina Baracetti of the Udine Far East Movie Pageant and contains Japanese and American producer Alex C Lo, Indonesian program director Gugi Gumilang and Australian actress Jillian Nguyen.
The ceremony additionally introduced the 4 winners of the $25,000 MPA APSA Academy Movie Fund, supported by the American Movie Institute. These embrace the Chinese language function “Fuxi: 4 Chapters of Pleasure” at present in post-production and “Watch It Burn” from “Autobiography” director Maqbool Mubarak.
The seventeenth Asia Pacific Movie Awards – Winners
greatest movie
“April,” Dill. Dea Kulumbegashvili (Georgia, Italy, France)
Jury Prize
“All the things we think about is mild”, director. Payal Kapadia (France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Finest Youth Movie
Director of “Boong”. Lakshmi Priya Devi (India)
greatest animated movie
Director of “The Lacking” (also called “The Lacking”). Carl Joseph Pope (Philippines)
greatest documentary
Director of “No Different Land”. Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham (Palestine, Norway)
greatest director
“Holy Electrical energy” by Tato Kotetishvili (Georgia, Netherlands)
greatest screenplay
“Hesitation Wound” (also called “Hesitation Line”) by Selman Nacar (Türkiye, Spain, Romania, France)
Finest Images
“Mongrel” by Michael Capron (Taiwan, Singapore, France)
greatest efficiency
Ia Sukhitashvili represents “April” (Georgia, Italy, France)
Finest Newcomer Performer
Knowledge Chachua of “Panopticon” (Georgia, France, Italy, Romania)
Cultural Range Award
Director of “Shambhala”. Min Bahadur Bham (Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, Turkey, Taiwan, United States, Qatar)
Youth Movie Award Associate with NETPAC
“Happyend” by Neo Sora (Japan, United States)
Worldwide Federation of Movie Pageant Awards
Cliff Curtis (New Zealand)
2024 MPA APSA Movie Fund Winners (4)
“Past Kabul”, animated documentary, product. Estelle Fiallon (France)
“Watch It Burn”, Fiction Characteristic, Product. Yulia Evina Bhara (Indonesia) and Product Director. Maqbool Mubarak.
“Fuxi: Pleasure in 4 Chapters,” fiction function, cinematographer. Robbin Yuchao Feng (China), dir. Qiu Jiongjiong.
“A Journey to Australia”, novel function, product. Aiko Masubuchi (Japan, United States), prod., scr., dir. Neo Sola.
