Georgian drama movie “April” took double honors on Saturday on the annual Asia Pacific Display Awards, profitable the perfect movie prize and the perfect efficiency prize for Ia Sukhitashvili.
Directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili, the movie portrays the dedication of an obstetrics and gynaecology supplier within the face of accusations in regards to the dying of a new child baby. The movie premiered on the Venice and Toronto festivals in September, incomes a particular jury prize in Venice and the perfect movie prize within the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera competitors.
Sukhitashvili was current on the APSA ceremony in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, to simply accept each awards.
Fellow Georgian filmmaker, Tato Kotetishvili was awarded the APSA for finest director for his debut characteristic, darkish comedy “Holy Electrical energy,” which sees cousins promoting neon crucifixes door to door in Tbilisi.
Girls’s tales and movies from India had been additionally main themes among the many awards winners.
Payal Kapadia’s “All We Think about as Mild,” which made a sensational debut in Cannes in Could, was Saturday awarded the Jury Grand Prize on the APSAs. The prize, chosen on the discretion of the jury, was awarded to this story of two working-class nurses in Mumbai.
The APSA prize for Greatest Youth Movie additionally went to a feminine director from India, Lakshmipriya Devi, for “Boong.” Produced by Alan McAlex, Vikesh Bhutani, Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar and Shujaat Saudagar, the movie is a heartwarming story of a younger boy from distant Manipur who goes on an journey to reunite his household.
The APSA for Greatest Animated Movie was received by “The Lacking” (aka “Iti Mapukpukaw”), a uncommon animation movie within the grownup sci-fi style from The Philippines. “No Different Land” (Palestine, Norway), directed as a bunch by Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham, and giving their perspective on the violence and destruction surrounding them, was named the documentary finest movie winner.
Veteran New Zealand actor Cliff Curtis (“Boy,” “The Meg,” “Whale Rider,” “Colombiana”) was named recipient of the FIAPF Award for his dedication to producing indigenous tales. On the Gold Coast occasion Curtis spoke in regards to the Maori understanding of individuals current between Mom Earth and Father Sky acknowledged the numerous cultures gathered for APSA. (APSA adopts a UNESCO definition of Asia that stretches from Palestine to New Zealand.)
Three beforehand introduced winners had been all in attendance on the ceremony to simply accept their awards: Neo Sora obtained APSA’s Younger Cinema Award in partnership with NETPAC for “Happyend”; Nepali director Min Bahadur Bham accepted the Cultural Range Award for “Shambhala”; Georgia’s Knowledge Chachua accepted his APSA for finest new performer for “Panopticon,” a movie which additionally stars Sukhitashvili.
The APSA foremost jury was this 12 months headed by Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, alongside “Loopy Wealthy Asians” star Chris Pang (Australia), Papua New Guinea and New Zealand producer Kerry Warkia, Korean filmmaker, educator and policymaker Park Kiyong and Kazakh producer Yuliya Kim.
The APSA Youth, Animation, Documentary Worldwide Jury was led by Sabrina Baracetti of the Udine Far East Movie Competition, joined by Japan and U.S.-based producer Alex C Lo, Indonesian program director Gugi Gumilang and Australian actress Jillian Nguyen.
The ceremony additionally included the announcement of the 4 recipients of the $25,000 MPA APSA Academy Movie Fund grants, supported by the Movement Image Affiliation. They included at present in post-production Chinese language characteristic “Fuxi: Pleasure in 4 Chapters,” and “Watch It Burn,” by “Autobiography” director Makbul Mubarak.
seventeenth Asia Pacific Display Awards – WINNERS
Greatest Movie
“April,” Dir. Dea Kulumbegashvili (Georgia, Italy, France)
Jury Grand Prize
“All We Think about as Mild,” Dir. Payal Kapadia (France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Greatest Youth Movie
“Boong” Dir. Lakshmipriya Devi (India)
Greatest Animated Movie
“The Lacking” (aka “Iti Mapukpukaw”) Dir. Carl Joseph Papa (Philippines)
Greatest Documentary Movie
“No Different Land” Dirs. Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham (Palestine, Norway)
Greatest Director
Tato Kotetishvili for “Holy Electrical energy” (Georgia, Netherlands)
Greatest Screenplay
Selman Nacar for “Hesitation Wound” (aka “Tereddüt Çizgisi”) (Türkiye, Spain, Romania, France)
Greatest Cinematography
Michaël Capron for “Mongrel” (Taiwan, Singapore, France)
Greatest Efficiency
Ia Sukhitashvili for “April” (Georgia, Italy, France)
Greatest New Performer
Knowledge Chachua for “Panopticon” (Georgia, France, Italy, Romania)
Cultural Range Award
“Shambhala” Dir. Min Bahadur Bham (Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, Türkiye, Taiwan, U.S., Qatar)
Younger Cinema Award in partnership with NETPAC
Neo Sora for “Happyend” (Japan, U.S.)
FIAPF Award
Cliff Curtis (New Zealand)
2024 MPA APSA Movie Fund Recipients (4)
“Outdoors Kabul,” animated documentary, prod. Estelle Fialon (France)
“Watch it Burn,” fiction characteristic, prod. Yulia Evina Bhara (Indonesia) and prod., dir. Makbul Mubarak.
“Fuxi: Pleasure in 4 Chapters,” fiction characteristic, cinematographer. Robbin Yuchao Feng (China), dir. Qiu Jiongjiong.
“A Journey to Australia,” fiction characteristic, prod. Aiko Masubuchi (Japan, U.S.), prod., scr., dir. Neo Sora.
