best feature film nominees - Asia Pacific Screen Awards

ACCLAIMING
CULTURE AND
CINEMATIC
ACHIEVEMENT.
OFFICIAL PROGRAM
INAUGURAL YEAR
13 November 2007
Sheraton Mirage
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION IS DEFINED BY THOSE
COUNTRIES AND AREAS OF LONGITUDE BETWEEN 30°
EAST AND 170° WEST. IN ALL, 60% OF THE EARTH’S
POPULATION AND HALF THE WORLD’S FILM OUTPUT.
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
KAZAKHSTAN
MONGOLIA
GEORGIA
UZBEKISTAN
KYRGYZSTAN
AZERBAIJAN
TURKMENISTAN
TAJIKISTAN
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
ARMENIA
TURKEY
SYRIAN ARAB ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
CYPRUS REPUBLIC
OF IRAN
LEBANON
IRAQ
ISRAEL PALESTINE
JORDAN
KUWAIT
EGYPT
SAUDI
ARABIA
JAMMU & KASHMIR
AFGHANISTAN
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
JAPAN
BHUTAN
PAKISTAN
NEPAL
BAHRAIN
QATAR
UNITED
ARAB
EMIRATES
REPUBLIC
OF KOREA
INDIA
OMAN
YEMEN
LAO PEOPLE’S
TAIWAN
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
HONG KONG
MYANMAR
MACAU
BANGLADESH
THAILAND
VIETNAM
CAMBODIA
PHILIPPINES
PALAU
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MALDIVES
MALAYSIA
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HONOURING FILMMAKERS
WHO ENTHRAL, ENLIGHTEN,
EDUCATE AND ENTERTAIN
US WITH THEIR STORIES.
Our films clearly demonstrate a rich slate of
diversity—each telling their own story, in their own
way, from their country of origin.
That is what the Asia Pacific Screen Awards respect
and acclaim.
We enjoin with UNESCO to promote a greater
understanding of the significance of all cultures in
our world.
We further the common interests of Asia-Pacific film
producers on behalf of FIAPF – the International
Federation of Film Producers Associations.
And we link with CNN International to report
on the films and filmmakers of our region to a
global audience.
Welcome to the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
MARSHALL
ISLANDS
NAURU
KIRIBATI
SOLOMON
ISLANDS
TOKELAU
TUVALU
SAMOA
VANUATU
FIJI
NIUE
COOK
ISLANDS
TONGA
NEW
ZEALAND
THE ASIA PACIFIC
SCREEN AWARDS 2007
Under the auspices of UNESCO
Endorsed by FIAPF
In association with CNN International
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Secret Sunshine (Republic of Korea).
CONTENTS
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards Ceremony ...........6
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards Initiative ..............8
Official Messages
Premier of Queensland .........................................10
Chairman, Asia Pacific Screen Awards ................11
Director-General, UNESCO ..................................12
President, FIAPF...................................................13
Executive Producer, CNN International ................14
Scene By Scene: Feature Television Programs ....16
International Jury ..................................................20
Nominations Council ............................................22
The Award ............................................................24
Nominees
Best Children’s Feature Film ................................26
Best Animated Feature Film .................................27
Best Documentary Feature Film ...........................28
Best Screenplay ...................................................29
Achievement in Cinematography .........................30
Best Performance by an Actress..........................32
Best Performance by an Actor .............................33
Achievement in Directing......................................34
Best Feature Film .................................................35
FIAPF Award.........................................................36
UNESCO Award ...................................................37
Film in Queensland ...............................................38
Australia’s Gold Coast ..........................................40
Acknowledgements ..............................................42
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THE ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN
AWARDS CEREMONY
PRESENTERS
Indira Naidoo is one of Australia’s most popular
news broadcasters and has, for the past 16 years,
presented and reported for the country’s most
distinguished news and current affair programs.
She achieved national prominence in 1995 as the
host of the ABC’s Late Edition nightly news, and
then in 1997 as the inaugural anchor of SBS TV’s
award-winning late night news service, World News
Tonight. Indira has also presented the ABC’s Sydney
news bulletins and reported for and presented
the 7.30 Report, The Midday Report and ABC TV’s
viewer comment show Feedback.
Indira Naidoo
Anjali Rao
Jack Thompson AM
Peter Thompson
PERFORMERS
William Barton
Didjeridu and guitar
Amy Dickson
Saxaphone
William Barton is considered one of
Australia’s leading didjeridu players
and composers and is a powerful
advocate for the wider perception of
his cultural traditions. Born in Mount
Isa in north-western Queensland,
he was taught the instrument at an
early age by his uncle, an elder of
the Waanyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga
tribes of western Queensland.
William recently performed with the
Brooklyn Philharmonic and London
Philharmonic Orchestra, and toured
Germany with the Queensland
Ballet. He has worked with many
leading composers and performed
at festivals including Melbourne
International Festival of the Arts,
Paris quartier d’été, the Colorado
Music Festival, Wassoi World Music
Festival in Japan and the Australian
Chamber Orchestra’s Huntington
Festival. In 2005 he was a resident at
Fabrica Musica in Treviso, Italy.
William Barton’s own compositions
include Songs of the Mother Country
(Queensland Biennial Festival,
2003), and Journey of the Rivers for
string quartet, didjeridu and voice,
performed at the Pompidou Centre,
Paris in 2006.
Photographer: Greg Barrett
Last year Indira joined the country’s pre-eminent
consumer advocacy group Choice as its media
spokesperson, and this year joined Planet Ark
Founder Jon Dee at his environment/consumer
consultancy Issues Solutions where she advises on
consumer strategy.
Born in Hong Kong and educated mainly in the UK,
Anjali Rao co-anchors CNN’s prime-time evening
news and business show World News Asia live from
CNN’s regional production center in Hong Kong.
She also hosts Talk Asia, the half-hour regional chat
show, which features revealing, in-depth interviews
and topical discussion with leading business,
political and entertainment figures.
An award winning international correspondent, Rao
has covered a broad portfolio of major news stories
including the attacks of 9/11, the Asian tsunami, the
aftermath of the Bali bombings, the war in Iraq and
the South Asian earthquake.
An Australian film legend, Jack Thompson AM has
been in the forefront of the Australian cinema scene
since 1969. His career has seen him travel across
the cinema globe – featuring in more than 50 films
and receiving every major Australian film award,
including his nomination as a Living Legend (2005
IF Awards). For his service to the Australian film
industry Jack Thompson was appointed a Member
of the Order of Australia in 1986.
He has recently been filming in the United States on
George Clooney’s romantic comedy Leatherheads
and is currently in Australia working on the epic
Baz Luhrmann film Australia. It is this extraordinary
career that has elevated Jack Thompson to be seen
as, more than an actor, an international ambassador
of Australian cinema.
At 17, Amy Dickson was named
the James Fairfax Australian
Young Artist of the Year. She was
the first saxophonist to win the
Gold Medal at the Royal Overseas
League Competition, the Prince’s
Prize and the Symphony Australia
Young Performer of the Year
award. Amy has performed at the
Wigmore Hall, the Bridgewater
Hall, the Purcell Room, the
Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Sydney
Opera House, and the Beurs van
Berlage. She toured as a soloist
with the Sydney Symphony
Orchestra, the Amadeus Orchestra
and Orchestra Victoria, and as a
solo recitalist throughout Europe,
the United Kingdom, Australia and
New Zealand. As leader of the
Zephirus Saxophone Quartet, she
toured the United Kingdom and
parts of Europe.
A strong advocate of new
music and a fervent supporter
of contemporary composers,
Amy Dickson has worked with
renowned composers Philip
Glass, Graeme Koehne, Graham
Fitkin and Huw Watkins.
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The Sun Also Rises (People’s Republic of China).
THE ASIA PACIFIC
SCREEN AWARDS
INITIATIVE
To acclaim filmmaking in the Asia-Pacific
region that best reflects its cultural origins and
cinematic excellence.
To acclaim the people behind this excellence.
To promote this outstanding work in film to a
global audience in order to broaden the market
appeal of such works.
Encourage the collaboration of filmmakers in
the region.
Through film, develop greater understanding of
the region’s various cultures.
To recognise the creativity of our neighbouring
cultures in the vast Asia-Pacific region and in
doing so, take it to the world.
Article 7 of the UNESCO Convention on the
Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of
Cultural Expression denotes “Cultural heritage as
the wellspring of creativity”, further stating that
“Creation draws on the roots of cultural tradition,
but flourishes in contact with other cultures.”
What joy that the popular social pastime of cinema
can in the act of entertainment influence a better
understanding of our world, communicating to
the ultimate benefit of humanity aspirations and
dreams through film.
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MESSAGE FROM THE
PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND
Queensland is proud to host the inaugural Asia
Pacific Screen Awards, along with UNESCO,
CNN International and FIAPF—the International
Federation of Film Producers Associations.
Already the Annual Conference of SPAA, the
Screen Producers Association of Australia, the
national Inside Film People’s Choice Awards, and
the Australian International Movie Convention are
located on Queensland’s Gold Coast.
The addition of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards
fulfills an objective, created in Queensland,
to provide the film industry with a hub and a
vibrant opportunity to coalesce with filmmakers,
distributors and film organisations of the AsiaPacific region. In that regard, the hub is an
important business environment for the region’s
film industry.
As well as fulfilling an important cultural mandate,
the global television coverage brings enormous
marketing benefits to the film industry of the
Asia-Pacific region of which we are a key member.
Anna Bligh MP
Premier of Queensland
MESSAGE FROM THE
CHAIRMAN OF THE ASIA
PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS
The APSAs would never have been possible without
the shared vision of the Queensland Government,
CNN International, UNESCO and FIAPF. I join with
filmmakers and audiences around the world in
saying thanks. You have made a difference.
I am reminded of the mother in Iraq who said she
wanted her sons to be filmmakers, not soldiers.
I am reminded of the story of the parents in
Vietnam in the aftermath of war who could not
afford white silk tunics for their daughters to attend
school. And of the field that a young farmer was
given in order to provide for his family. But, first, he
had to clear it of land mines.
Let us see all these films. Let us understand the
struggle and sadness that infect so much of our
world. Let us tell stories of triumph over hardship,
political and religious tyranny. Let us open our
screens to the films that will bring us together in
greater understanding of one another.
We applaud filmmakers for their courage and
creativity. They are the true artists of change.
Des Power AM
Chairman, Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Co-Executive Producer, Scene By Scene
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MESSAGE FROM THE
DIRECTOR-GENERAL
OF UNESCO
On behalf of UNESCO, I would like to extend my
warmest greetings to you on the occasion of the
first Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
I congratulate the State Government of
Queensland for its support to this event, which
also enjoys the collaboration of CNN, the
International Federation of Film Producers
Associations and UNESCO.
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards promises to be
a unique platform to showcase some of the best
creative works on screen from a region that boasts
the most prolific cinema production in the world.
And not just the most prolific - the region may well
also have the greatest diversity in cinema as well,
the fitting reflection of its vast mosaic of cultures.
This is why UNESCO supports this event, and
why we are presenting one particular award - for
outstanding contribution to the promotion and
preservation of cultural diversity through film.
Article 1 of UNESCO’s Universal Declaration on
Cultural Diversity, adopted by UNESCO’s General
Conference in 2001, is of much relevance to
the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. I quote, “As a
source of exchange, innovation and creativity,
cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind
as biodiversity is for nature. In this sense, it is
the common heritage of humanity and should be
recognized and affirmed for the benefit of present
and future generations.”
The seventh art can also transmit understanding
of others, and in this way contribute to
respect for difference, one of the most secure
foundations for peace, and one of the great
tasks of our Organization.
I congratulate all the winners, competitors, jury
members and organisers of these first awards and
wish long life to this very promising event.
Koïchiro Matsuura
Director-General
UNESCO
MESSAGE FROM THE
PRESIDENT OF FIAPF
It is with great pleasure that FIAPF supports
the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. FIAPF is an
international organisation, representing producers
and film festivals across the world. The AsiaPacific, home to many of the world’s most
important Festivals and markets, is an important
region for FIAPF and will become more so in
the future. The Asia Pacific Screen Awards
provide a common platform in the region to
acclaim Asia-Pacific film, documentaries and
television programs, in the world’s fastest growing
entertainment market. There is currently no awards
event of this scale or reach in the region.
FIAPF welcomes this major initiative that
celebrates the expression of cultural diversity
through film and TV in the Asia-Pacific. The calibre
of this first year’s nominations is a testament to
the depth of talent and diversity of the region’s
filmmakers. FIAPF looks forward to a long
collaboration with the Awards in years to come.
Andrés Vicente Gomez
President
FIAPF
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MESSAGE FROM THE
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF
CNN INTERNATIONAL
CNN International is honored and proud to promote
and showcase the films of the Asia-Pacific and
to work alongside APSA, FIAPF and UNESCO in
doing so.
The two Scene By Scene documentaries airing on
CNN will be a landmark moment for Asia-Pacific
film and a wonderful opportunity for our global
viewers in more than 220 million households to
witness the extraordinary talent present at these
Awards. From high in the Himalayan mountains,
the two programs weave their way through the sub
continent, Central Asia and the Middle East, then
on to North and South East Asia and Australasia.
They provide a unique, creative window on a
remarkably diverse and compelling region.
David Lindsay
Executive Producer CNN International
5 Centimeters Per Second (Japan).
On behalf of everyone involved at CNN,
congratulations to all the nominees and winners.
Your recognition is timely, important and very
well deserved.
SCENE BY SCENE – FILMS OF ASIA PACIFIC
GOES BEHIND THE SCENES WITH MAMORU SHINKAI,
DIRECTOR OF JAPANESE ANIME FILM, 5 CENTIMETERS
PER SECOND, NOMINATED FOR BEST ANIMATED
FEATURE FILM IN THE INAUGURAL ASIA PACIFIC
SCREEN AWARDS.
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Bhutan: Bhutan Broadcasting Service interviews Anjali Rao.
Hong Kong: Anjali Rao interviews Andrew Lau.
FROM HIGH IN THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS THE
SCENE BY SCENE DOCUMENTARIES WEAVE THEIR
WAY THROUGH THE SUB CONTINENT, CENTRAL
ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, THEN ON TO NORTH
AND SOUTH EAST ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA.
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Hong Kong: Scene
By Scene Director of
Photography, Bruce
Inglis on location.
SCENE BY SCENE:
FEATURE TELEVISION
PROGRAMS OF THE
ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN
AWARDS
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Cairo: Graham Davis interviews Omar Sharif.
China: Director John Woo on the set of The Battle of Red Cliff.
APSA, in association with CNNi, present the
outstanding works of filmmakers across the AsiaPacific region in two documentaries titled Scene
By Scene, broadcast globally on CNN International
in November.
We shoot over the shoulder of John Woo, best
known to western audiences as director of Mission
Impossible 2, as he directs The Battle of Red Cliff,
the $65 million epic shot simultaneously at two
locations in China. In stark contrast that of Che-Ring
Wangyel from Bhutan, shooting his latest movie on
video in the knowledge that there is only one cinema
in Bhutan where his movie can be shown.
These programs provide APSA nominees and
winners with unprecedented television coverage.
In 2007, the formative year, stories in Scene By
Scene come from film studios, festivals and film
sets spanning Cairo, Istanbul, Ho Chi Minh City,
Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore, New Zealand, Bhutan
and Beijing.
Filmmakers from the region will feature, including
Hong Kong’s John Woo on the set of his new
film The Battle of Red Cliff; Egyptian screen
idol Omar Sharif, Indian superstar and APSA
International Jury President Shabana Azmi, cofounder of Japan’s legendary anime house Studio
Ghibli—Mamoru Oshii, and director of the Korean
blockbuster The Host—Bong Joon-ho.
In Egypt, we meet filmmaker Wahid Hamed who
explains the risks and controversy that have
accompanied his latest production. Prominent
Chinese director Chen Kaige (Farewell My
Concubine), calls on the communist authorities
in China to relax their censorship policies as
they prepare to host the 2008 Olympic Games.
While in Vietnam we gain exclusive access to the
inner workings of the Chief Censor’s Office as
he decides whether 85 million Vietnamese will
be allowed to view Pirate’s of the Carribean: At
World’s End.
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THIS UNPRECEDENTED AND
EXTRAORDINARY INITIATIVE,
ORIGINATING FROM AUSTRALIA,
BEGINS A CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE
THE FILMS, ACTORS, DIRECTORS
AND CULTURES OF OUR REGION
TO A GLOBAL AUDIENCE.
Award-winning journalist Graham Davis interviews
Singapore’s Royston Tan, who at just 30 years of
age, caused uproar with his film 15. Indonesia’s
foremost director Garin Nugroho talks candidly
about the changes in his country and his hope
for better times ahead. Iraqi Kurd Shawkat Amin
Korki tells us he wanted to make a film about the
capacity of humans for goodness, even in the
most evil of circumstances. And we meet 2006
Pusan Festival major prizewinner Huynh Luu,
whose moving film The White Silk Dress was a big
hit in Vietnam.
The first Scene By Scene—Films of Asia Pacific,
screened globally on November 10 2007.
Scene By Scene—Best Films of Asia Pacific,
featuring extensive coverage of the Awards
night, will screen on CNN International in a global
broadcast that includes North America and Europe,
on November 17, 2007.
This unprecedented and extraordinary initiative,
originating from Australia, begins a campaign to
promote the films, actors, directors and cultures
of our region to a global audience, realising the
objectives of UNESCO to promote and preserve
our respective cultures through the valuable
medium of film.
Crossing The Dust (Iraq/Kurdistan).
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INTERNATIONAL JURY
OF THE ASIA PACIFIC
SCREEN AWARDS 2007
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A distinguished and highly credentialed jury, under the presidency of India’s
Shabana Azmi, assembled on Australia’s Gold Coast in November to determine
the inaugural APSA winners. The calibre of this jury attests to the seriousness
of the judging process. APSA is deeply grateful to each of these eminent and
acclaimed representatives of the international film community.
PRESIDENT
Shabana Azmi (India)
Jury President Shabana Azmi has acted in more than
140 films, is a luminary of Indian Parallel (or arthouse)
Cinema, and is renowned for the sensitivity of her
portrayals in films such as Deepa Mehta’s Fire, Shekhar
Kapur’s Masoom (Innocent) and Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj
Ke Khilari (The Chess Players). For her role in Deepa
Mehta’s Fire, Ms Azmi won the Silver Hugo Award for
Best Actress at the 32nd Chicago Film Festival. She
has won five Indian National Awards as Best Actress
and numerous other Indian film awards, including the
International Indian Film Academy Lifetime Achievement
Award in 2005. She is the only Asian actor to have
had a retrospective of her films at the New York Film
Festival (2002). Ms Azmi is a noted activist who has
been involved in the rights of women, development,
reproductive health, and housing for the economically
weaker sections, public health and HIV AIDS. In 1992
she was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the
United Nations Population Fund and, in 2006, she was
awarded the Gandhi Foundation International Peace
Award for her work with the slum dwellers of Mumbai.
She is a member of the National Integration Council,
headed by the Prime Minister of India, a member of
the National AIDS Commission (of India) and was
nominated in 1997 as a member of the upper house of
the Indian Parliament.
Ms Azmi has fought relentlessly against religious
fundamentalism of all hues and is highly respected
as a moderate, liberal Muslim voice. She is a visiting
Professor at Ann Arbour Michigan and, among many
tributes, was acknowledged by President Mitterand
of France, along with 15 others including Mother
Theresa and Nobel Laureate, Rigoberta Menchu on
the bicentenary celebrations of International Human
Rights in Paris.
Photograph by Mr. Ashok Salian. Image courtesy Beautiful People May-June 2006.
JURY
Kim Dong-ho
(Republic of Korea)
Kim Dong-ho is the founding
Director of Korea’s worldrenowned Pusan International
Film Festival, and is also currently
the Vice Chairman of NETPAC,
the Network for Promotion
of Asian Cinema. Mr Kim has
been awarded many cultural
medals in recognition of his
achievements and efforts in
the cultural development in the
Republic of Korea as well as
in the international society. In
2000 he was awarded a Busan
Culture Award and later the same
year was acknowledged with
a Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts
et de Lettres from the French
government. In 2006 he received
the Deauville City Medal from
Deauville City in France. Since
1997 Kim Dong-ho has served on
the juries of many International
Film Festivals including Rotterdam
(as Jury Chairman), India, Buenos
Aires, Las Palmas, Venice (as
Jury Chairman for the NETPAC
Award), Singapore, Seattle,
Bangkok, Hawaii and Sochi, in
Russia. Prior to founding the
Pusan International Film Festival,
Mr Kim majored in Law at the
Seoul National University and
received an MA in Administration
at the Hanyang University. He
had consecutively filled various
government posts at the Ministry
of Culture and Tourism (formerly
known as Ministry of Culture
and Information) for 27 years. He
also served as president of the
Korean Motion Picture Promotion
Corporation and at the Seoul Arts
Center. He worked as the ViceMinister at the Ministry of Culture
and Tourism. His recent book,
‘History of Korean Cinema Policy’
(written by Kim Dong-ho et al) was
published in 2005.
Jafar Panahi (Iran)
Jafar Panahi has already received
52 prestigious international and
national awards. Born in Mianeh
in Iranian Azerbaijan, Jafar Panahi
is a graduate of filmmaking from
the IRIB College in Tehran. After
directing five short films and
acting as an assistant director
for some acclaimed directors,
like Abbas Kiarostami in Through
the Olive Trees, Panahi made his
debut feature, The White Balloon
in 1995, which turned out to be
the event of Cannes `95. The film
won three awards, including the
prestigious Camera d’Or and was
sold widely to many territories. His
second film, The Mirror received
six international awards as well.
Jafar Panahi was decorated as
Chevalier des Art et Lettres by the
French Ministry of Culture in 1997.
He directed his third feature film,
The Circle in 2000, a controversial
movie at home and a great
success on the international scene.
It was shown in Venice 2000 and
received six awards, including
the Golden Lion. The Circle is still
banned in Iran although it has been
shown in more than 40 countries
and has collected 18 awards.
Mr Panahi’s Crimson Gold was
shown in Cannes in 2003 and
received the Jury Prize of Un
Certain Regard. This film was also
awarded the Golden Hugo of Best
Film of the Chicago Film Festival
in October 2003. It too has not yet
been granted a screening permit
in Iran. His latest film, Offside was
shown at Berlin in 2006 and was
awarded the Silver Bear and the
Grand Jury Prize.
Nik Powell (UK)
In the early 1970’s Nik Powell set
up Virgin Records with Richard
Branson. In the space of ten years
they turned a small mail-order
record operation into a multi-million
pound conglomerate. In 1982 Powell
formed Palace Video with Stephen
Woolley, proprietor of the Scala
Cinema, followed by Palace Video,
Palace Pictures, and then Palace
Productions, soon establishing each
as highly regarded entities within
the film distribution and production
industry. Powell has acted as
Executive Producer on all of
Palace’s productions including Neil
Jordan’s Company of Wolves; Oscar
nominated and award-winning Mona
Lisa, which introduced Neil Jordan
and Bob Hoskins to the international
market; and Michael Caton-Jones’
Scandal, starring John Hurt. Other
productions included Neil Jordan’s
The Crying Game for which Powell
was the sole executive producer.
This was one of the biggest British
independent films at the box office,
taking over $65 million at the US
box office alone. Nominated for six
Oscars, including ‘Best Picture’,
Neil Jordan won the Oscar for
‘Best Original Screenplay’. Powell
and Woolley’s new company Scala
produced Backbeat, The Neon Bible,
Fever Pitch, B Monkey, Welcome
to Woop Woop, and TwentyFour:
Seven, which won the international
critics FIPRESCI prize as well as
a ‘Pierrot’ Award at the Venice
Film Festival. Little Voice, starring
Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor,
Jane Horrocks and Brenda Blethyn,
won the ‘Best Actor’ Golden Globe,
was nominated for the ‘Best Actress’
and ‘Best Supporting Actress’, and
went on to become the highest
grossing British film of 1999 in the
UK. Other productions include
Last Orders, which premiered at
the 2001 Toronto Film Festival,
and Scala’s first animated feature,
Christmas Carol—The Movie. He
executive produced Calendar Girls,
and Stoned. Nik’s last production
was Ladies in Lavender. Nik Powell
is Director of the National Film and
Television School, Chairman of
Scala Productions, Vice Chairman
of the board of the European Film
Academy, previous Chairman of
EFA and host of the European Film
Awards. He is Vice Chairman of the
BAFTA Film Board, member of the
BAFTA Board of Trustees; Council
Member of BAFTA (British Academy
of Film and Television Arts); member
of BAFTA Film Committee; Member
of the US academy AMPAS
(Association of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences); Director of the board
of the Northern Ireland Film and TV
Commission, Member of the council
of PACT (Producers Alliance for
Cinema and Television); Member
of British Screen Advisory Council;
Member of European Producers
Club; and Vice Chairman of the
GEECT Board.
Tian Zhuangzhuang
(People’s Republic of China)
Tian Zhuangzhuang is one of
the leading figures of the ‘Fifth
Generation’. His third feature
film Horse Thief (1985) won large
audiences in Europe and North
America, and is now seen as one of
the cornerstones of ‘Fifth Generation’
filmmaking: a modern classic. He has
been in and out of trouble with the
authorities for most of his career (not
least for being the only film industry
signatory to a 1989 open letter to the
government, calling for the release
of political prisoners) and he was
‘black-listed’ for a year after his film
The Blue Kite won the Grand Prix
at the 1992 Tokyo International Film
Festival. The son of well-known film
actors, he was born in Beijing and
at age 14 when Mao launched the
Cultural Revolution, he was active
as a young ‘Red Guard’ before
being sent to Jilin Province for ‘reeducation’ at the hands of the local
peasantry. He escaped from Jilin by
joining the army, and served as a
trainee cinematographer on several
agricultural documentaries. When
the Beijing Film Academy re-opened
in 1978, he passed the exam to
enter its Directing Department—and
co-directed the student tape Our
Corner (1980), the first sign of the
coming ‘new wave’ in Chinese
cinema. On graduating in 1982, he
co-directed a feature for children.
Between 1994 and 1997 he ran the
company Pegase within Beijing Film
Studio and produced four features
by young directors; he also acted in
one of them, How Steel is Forged,
directed by Lu Xuechang. In 2002
his film—Springtime in a Small Town
won the San Marco Prize at the 59th
Venice International Film Festival.
In 2003, he founded BDI Films Inc.
in Beijing, majoring on HD films for
a young generation of directors.
Also in 2003 he directed his first
documentary film—Delamu, and
in 2006 he finished his new feature
—The Go Master.
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NOMINATIONS COUNCIL
OF THE ASIA PACIFIC
SCREEN AWARDS 2007
APSA gratefully acknowledges distinguished
members of the inaugural Nominations Council
who gathered in Brisbane in September 2007 to
deliberate on a larger than expected number of
entries in this first year. We commend their efforts
to recommend nominations in each category to
members of the International Jury. The esteemed
members of the inaugural APSA Nominations
Council are:
CHAIRMAN
Hong-Joon Kim (Republic of Korea)
Associate Professor, Department of Film, School of Film, TV and
Multimedia, Korean National University of Arts. Festival Director,
Chungmuro International Film Festival, in Seoul (CHIFFS).
Hong-Joon Kim was Festival Director of the Puchon
International Fantastic Film Festival and Commissioner
of the Korean Film Council from 2000–2005.
His published books include I, A Filmmaker: Kim
Hong-Joon’s Film Notes, and Two or Three Things
You Want to Know About Movies. Hong-Joon Kim is
an award-winning director, and screenwriter of films
including Jungle Story and La Vie En Rose. He hosted
and co-wrote the television series Korean Classical
Cinema Special.
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Hong-Joon Kim
Chairman
Soheir Abdel Kader
Mohammad Atebbai
Philip Cheah
Anne Démy-Geroe
Russell Edwards
Jeannette Paulson Hereniko
Azize Tan
Aruna Vasudev
Xie Fei
NOMINATIONS COUNCIL
Soheir Abdel Kader (Egypt)
Vice-President of the Cairo
International Film Festival
and Director of the Cairo
International Film Festival
for Children.
Soheir Abdel Kader is a member
of the Union of Arab Artists
and a member of the Centre
International du Film pour
l’Enfance et la Jeunesse, CIJEF.
She has been a Jury member of
the San Francisco Isfahan and
Sousse Film Festivals, the Lucas
International Film Festival for
Children, and was Jury President
for the Moscow International
Film Festival for Children. She
was a consultant to the Egyptian
National Day of the Children,
1994; established the Charity
Market for Handicapped Children
in conjunction with The Cairo
International Film Festival for
Children; and had a key role in
establishing the Cairo International
Film Festival as a FIAPF
accredited festival.
Mohammad Atebbai (Iran)
Managing Director, Iranian
Independents.
Mohammad Atebbai is a film
producer and distributor; and
Head of Iranian Independents,
which markets and promotes
Iranian films internationally. He
was in charge of screening Iranian
films at international festivals
and events at Farabi Cinema
Foundation for eight years, before
forming Iranian Independents in
1997. He acted as Director of
International Affairs for Khaneh
Cinema for two years. He was
Senior Editor of Film International
from 1997–2001 and is still a
journalist and member of the
Iranian Society of Film Critics and
Writers. He is the author of the
book International Presentation of
Iranian Cinema: 1979–2004; was
producer and associate producer
involved in the co-production
and fundraising for Iranian films
including The Circle (Jafar Panahi,
1999); and is the Iranian member
of the European Documentary
Network (EDN), as well as a
representative of NETPAC
(Network for Promotion of Asian
Cinema) in Iran.
Philip Cheah (Singapore)
Festival Director, Singapore
International Film Festival.
Philip Cheah is a film critic and
author, and editor of BigO,
Singapore’s independent pop
culture publication. He is Advisory
Board Member and contributor
to Cinemaya, the Asian Quarterly,
and a Board Member of NETPAC
(Network for the Promotion of
Asian Cinema). Philip Cheah has
co-edited And the Moon Dances:
The Films of Garin (2004), Noel
Vera’s Critic After Dark: A Review
of Philippine Cinema (2005) and
is co-editor of Modernity and
Nationality in Vietnamese Cinema
by Ngo Phuong Lan (2007).
Anne Démy-Geroe
(Australia)
Executive Director,
Brisbane International Film
Festival (BIFF).
Anne Démy-Geroe was an
organiser for the Queensland
Images Film Festival in 1989, and
was involved in the establishment
of the Pacific Film and Television
Commission in 1990, and the
Brisbane International Film Festival
in 1991. She was Artistic Director
of the first festival and has been
involved ever since. Anne has
worked on the annual Queensland
New Filmmakers Awards and silent
film festivals, as well as regional
film festivals in Queensland. She
is a judge on the prestigious
Queensland Premier’s Literary
Awards and is a past Council
Member of the National Film and
Sound Archive. She has served
on international juries from Hawaii
to Tehran. She is the Australian
representative for NETPAC, the
Network for the Promotion of
Asian Cinema, and BIFF presents
the sole Australian NETPAC jury.
In 2003 Anne was awarded an
Australian Centenary Medal for
services to the film industry.
Russell Edwards (Australia)
Film Critic for Variety; former
President of the Film Critics
Circle of Australia.
Russell Edwards is a Sydneybased film critic reviewing Asian
and Australian films for the
international trade paper Variety.
He was president of The Film
Critics Circle of Australia from
2004 to 2006; is a regular attendee
of Asia’s film festival circuit; and
has been a FIPRESCI juror at the
Pusan International Film Festival
twice, including Jury Chairman
in 2003. Russell Edwards’ main
area of expertise is Korean and
Japanese cinema; and he is wellversed in Australian and American
film history. A board member of the
Sydney Film Festival from 1996 to
1999, Russell also advised the now
defunct Sydney Asia Pacific Film
Festival from 1999 to 2004. Russell
has also directed short films. His
most recent film The Agreement
(2006) played at numerous major
festivals around the world and was
screened on SBS Television.
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Jeannette Paulson
Hereniko (Hawaii)
Founding Director, Hawaii
International Film Festival;
President, iFilm Connections:
Asia & Pacific.
Jeannette Paulson Hereniko
launched the Hawaii International
Film Festival in 1981 to promote
cultural understanding about Asia,
Pacific and the United States
through film, and remained the
festival director until 1996. In 1990
she was named the first director
of the Palm Springs International
Film Festival. As a founding
board member of NETPAC, she
established NETPAC/USA in
1994. She has served on film
festival juries in Berlin, Rotterdam,
Pusan, Singapore, Mumbai,
Brisbane and Osian’s Cinefan
in New Delhi. As the Director of
the Asia Pacific Media Center
at the University of Southern
California’s Annenberg Center
for Communication from 1996 to
2005, she started a website, www.
asianfilms.org. This evolved into a
subscription website that streams
movies and provides information
about contemporary Asian and
Pacific Island film cultures for
universities and organisations
interested in Asia and the Pacific.
Ms Hereniko has written, directed
and produced documentaries and
theatrical productions, notably
producing an award-winning 2004
feature film from Fiji, The Land Has
Eyes. Currently she is President
of Te Maka Productions, Inc.,
NETPAC/USA, iFilm Connections
Asia & Pacific, and an international
Consultant for the American Film
Institute’s Project 20/20.
Azize Tan (Turkey)
Director, International
Istanbul Film Festival;
Istanbul Foundation for
Culture and Arts.
Azize Tan began her career as
Subtitling Co-ordinator at the
International Istanbul Film Festival
in 1996 and went on to become the
Co-ordinator of the Festival from
2000 to 2002 and then Assistant
Director. She was also the Coordinator of the 5th, 6th and 7th
International Istanbul Biennials.
Aruna Vasudev (India)
Founder-President, Network
for the Promotion of Asian
Cinema; Founder-Director
OSIAN’S CINEFAN.
Aruna Vasudev is the FounderPresident of NETPAC (Network for
the Promotion of Asian Cinema),
Founder-Director of Cinefan,
Festival of Asian Cinema, (now
Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian
and Arab Cinema) and FounderEditor of Cinemaya, The Asian
Film Quarterly (now Osian’sCinemaya). She is a Trustee of the
Public Service Broadcasting Trust,
India and of the newly constituted
Forum for Art Beyond Borders,
India; was conferred France’s top
cultural award, the Chevalier des
Arts et des Lettres; and the Star of
Italian Solidarity. She is the author
of two books on Indian Cinema;
editor and co-editor of several
books on cinema and television,
including Being & Becoming: The
Cinemas of Asia and co-editor
of Modernity and Nationality
in Vietnamese Cinema by Ngo
Phuong Lan (2007); and has been
a jury member in Cannes (Camera
d’Or), Locarno, Thessaloniki,
Singapore, Fajr (Tehran), Karlovy
Vary, Istanbul, Antalya, Hawaii,
Jeonju (Korea), Tallinn (Estonia)
and many more.
Xie Fei (People’s Republic
of China)
Professor, Beijing Film
Academy; Film Director.
Xie Fei is internationally known
as one of the most prominent
directors from China. His feature
film A Girl from Hunan (Xian Nu
Xiao Xiao) was invited to screen
in the Un Certain Regard section
of the Cannes International Film
Festival in 1987 and won the
Don Quixote Award at the San
Sebastian Film Festival and
the Golden Panda Award at
the Montpelier Film Festival, in
1988. Black Snow won the Silver
Bear Award at the Berlin Film
Festival in 1990 and screened
at the Hong Kong, London,
Washington, Sydney and Montreal
Film Festivals. Woman from the
Lake of Scented Souls won the
Golden Bear Award at the Berlin
Film Festival in 1993, the Chinese
Government Outstanding Film
Award in 1993 and the Best
Actress Award at the Chicago
Film Festival. A Mongolian Tale’s
many awards include the Best
Director Award at the World Film
Festival in Montreal in 1995, and
the Best Director at the Shanghai
Film Critic’s Ten Best Film Awards
in 1995. Song of Tibet (2000) won
Best Feature Film, Best Director,
Best Screenplay, Best Actress and
Best Music awards at the Chinese
Golden Rooster Awards. Professor
Xie Fei has been a Professor of BFA
for 40 years. His students include
Directors of Chinese fifth and sixth
generations, including Chen Kaige,
Zhang Yimou and Jia Zhangke.
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A SYMBOL COMMON TO ALL
CULTURES AND CIVILISATION.
I feel honoured to be invited to
create the inaugural award—the
vessel—for the Asia Pacific
Screen Awards.
Joanna Bone
My work has always been inspired
by the patterns and natural
rhythms of nature. The Great
Barrier Reef and Queensland’s
indigenous environment have
proved a rich source of visual
research and was one of the major
reasons why I made Brisbane my
home five years ago.
The pieces created for the APSA
Commission are very organic and
fluid in form. The colours reflect
vibrant tones of the APSA design
icon and are blown using the
Italian technique of rolling glass
‘canes’ around the outside of the
piece and melting them into the
surface so that the vessel appears
to have stripes. This process is
completed in the cutting shop
once the pieces have cooled
down. I use a technique of incising
the surface of the glass with a
diamond lathe to reveal intricate
patterns through the glass.
Joanna Bone,
Brisbane Australia,
September 2007
THE AWARD
Recipients of the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen
Award will receive a unique work of art to
acknowledge their achievement—a symbol
common to all cultures and civilisation—the urn,
the vase or, the vessel.
Brisbane artist Joanna Bone is a graduate of
the Royal College of Art in London and one of
Australia’s leading glass artists. She is the only
Queenslander to have won the Ranamok annual
National Glass Prize and has exhibited widely.
Her work can be found in prominent national and
international collections.
Joanna Bone’s exquisite glass vessels will be
presented to winners in 11 APSA award categories.
Nominees will be honoured
with a bespoke emblem
created in 9CT Gold and
Sterling Silver. The Asia Pacific
Screen Awards adornment
depicts the APSA mark and
features a Golden Sapphire
from the gem fields of Central
Queensland, Australia. The
handcrafted piece was
created by Brisbane-based
international design firm,
Minale Bryce and awardwinning Queensland jeweller,
Wallace Bishop Pty Ltd.
Esteemed Jury and
Nominations Council
members will be similarly
recognised.
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BEST CHILDREN’S
FEATURE FILM
NOMINEES
The Bicycle
Denias, Singing on the Cloud
Mukhsin
Mother Nanny
The Bicycle (Gulong)
Philippines
Produced by Menardo
Jimenez and Socorro
Fernandez
The Bicycle is a story of Apoo, a
boy of 12 and his cousin Momoy
and their quest for a bicycle.
It is the start of the school
holidays and their only hope
of entertainment is an antique
bicycle lying abandoned at the
oldest, spookiest house in the
neighborhood. The old woman
who owns the house will let
them have it—for a price! This
starts them on a journey which
tests their character, strengthens
their friendship and unravels
things about the past, making
this summer one of the most
meaningful in their lives.
Denias, Singing on the
Cloud (Denias, Senandung
di Atas Awan) Indonesia
Produced by Ari Sihasale
Based on the story of the real life
struggle of a boy named Denias,
who came from a small village at
Jayawijaya Mountain in Western
Papua Island and now has a
scholarship to attend senior high
school in Darwin, Australia. This
story, shot authentically against
the real backdrop of Papua Island,
reveals the beauty and hardship
of emotions between spirit, dream
and reality, humour and sadness,
freedom and regret, enemy
and friendship, revenge and
forgiveness, efforts and result.
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Locksmith
Locksmith (Ghofl-saz) Iran
Produced by Hassan
Agha-Karimi
13-year-old Mohammad goes
to the police station to complain
about his dad who frequently beats
him and his little sister. He tells the
police he wants to sue his father,
the local locksmith. Although
Mohammad is encouraged by his
granny and his dad’s family, the
police officer does not accept his
words and makes him take back
his complaint.
Mother Nanny (Inang Yaya)
Philippines
Produced by Antonio Gloria
Norma straddles between two
worlds as mother to Ruby and
nanny to Louise. When Norma
takes Ruby to the city to live with
the family of Louise, the two girls
struggle to share the woman they
both fiercely love. Every day is a
balancing act for Norma as she
deals with her demanding ward
and her headstrong daughter;
a generous employer and her
opinionated mother-in-law; the
desire for a good life and the need
to survive.
Mukhsin Malaysia
Produced by Puad Onah.
Co-Produced by MHZ Films.
Orked is 10, Mukhsin is 12. They
meet during one school holiday
and quickly become best of
friends. They play together, hang
out together and soon even begin
to dress alike. But things get
confusing when Mukhsin thinks he
has fallen in love with Orked.
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BEST ANIMATED
FEATURE FILM
NOMINEES
The Big Fighting Between
Wukong and God Erlang
5 Centimeters Per Second
Summer Days with Coo
The Big Fighting Between
Wukong and God Erlang
(Wukong Da Zhan Er Lang
Shen) Peoples Republic
of China
5 Centimeters Per Second
(Byosoku 5 Centimeters)
Japan
Summer Days with Coo
(Kappa No Coo To
Natsuyasumi) Japan
Produced by Noritaka
Kawaguchi
Produced by Yutaka Sugiyama
Produced by Hansen Liang
and Zhou Meiling
5 Centimeters Per Second is a
serial short animation consisting
of three independent works, all of
which are depicted with a boy at
the core. The film is set in Japan
from the 1990’s to present day
and moves, with the boy’s life,
around Tokyo and to the Japanese
countryside. Director, Makoto
Shinkai attempts to present the
real world as inspiration “by
depicting life as true as it is and
allowing the viewers a different
view to the familiar surroundings
that everyone has seen before.”
Adapted from one of the most
famous classical novels in China,
The Big Fighting Between Wukong
and God Erlang is the story of Sun
Wukong, entitled by Jade Emperor
as the Monkey King, Great Sage
Equalling Heaven. Forever making
trouble in the King’s mansion,
Wukong was given the job of
running the Peach Orchard. After
he destroyed Mother Queen’s
peach party and stole the
Golden Elixir, Mother Queen sent
Heavenly King Lee with 100,000
heavenly soldiers to capture him,
but Wukong defeated them all.
The God Erlang was sent to fight
Wukong and after three hundred
rounds, Wukong was captured.
With the Golden Elixir, Wukong
could be captured but not
defeated and Jade Emporer had
no choice but to ask for help from
Rulai Buddha, who has boundless
supernatural power.
Kouichi Uehara, a fourth grade
student in elementary school, lives
in a suburb of Tokyo. One day,
walking back from school along
the river, Kouichi picks up a large
stone which looks like a fossil. It
turns out to be a baby “Kappa”– a
Japanese mythical water creature
called Coo who was sleeping
underground for the past 300
years. Kouichi and Coo become
good friends and live together
with Kouichi’s family. However,
Coo cannot adjust to the lifestyle
in Tokyo and so, on a hot summer
day, Kouichi and Coo decide to go
on an adventurous road trip to find
Coo’s peers.
Beirut Diaries: Truth, Lies
and Videos (Yaoumiyat
Beirut: Hakaek Wa
Akatheeb) Lebanon
Produced by Mai Masri and
Jean Chamoun
Through the story of a young
Beirut woman, Beirut Diaries
provides an eyewitness account
of the spontaneous sit-in by
hundreds of thousands of
Lebanese young people after the
assassination of former Prime
Minister Rafic Hariri. Through the
turbulent experiences, dreams
and disillusions of the filmmaker’s
young friends, the film explores
the critical transformations and
crucial questions facing Lebanon
in this troubled period.
A Great Master
Re-Captured (You Jian Mei
Lan Fang) People’s Republic
of China
Produced by Gao Feng
A portrait of Peking Opera’s most
famous star, Mei Lanfang (18941961), a man who innovatively
shaped his various female
characters, from the witty maid
to the drunken beauty, by every
single finger movement, every
blink of an eye and every word
he uttered. Chronologically the
film recalls the big events in Mei’s
life, from his debut in Beijing at
10 to his performance for the new
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China scientists in 1961, just two
months before he died. But in
many people’s eyes Mei Lanfang
is still mysterious. “He’s the most
attractive woman on the stage but
a handsome man…a husband and
father in real life.” So, who is the
real Mei Lanfang? A montage of
pictures, music and old footage of
the great master in action reveals
his life as a great artist, a loving
father and a superb teacher.
The Lost Land (Sarzamine
Gomshodeh) Iran
Produced by Vahid
Mousaine Simani
This documentary film is about
the political and social events that
happened after 1941 that caused
the ‘North Neighbour Country’ to
penetrate into Iran, forcing some
generations to immigrate and live
in the camps of Siberia.
A Story of People in War
and Peace Armenia
Produced by Vardan
Hovhannisyan
“Recently, my young son came
up to me. He had seen my old
uniform hanging in the closet.
He asked me, ‘Daddy, are you
a warrior?’ and I didn’t know
how to respond to him.” It
was this moment that Vardan
Hovhannisyan describes as the
turning point when he knew he
needed to return to the archive
footage he shot during the
Karabagh war. “The film combines
strong and unique archival war
footage from the trenches of
a 20 metre battlefield with the
human and touching stories of the
survivors who are now living on
in peace time. Twelve years later I
had the opportunity to follow them
over a year-long shooting period
and was able to create a very
close and intimate portrait of their
lives and their universal stories.”
Village People Radio
Show (Apa Khabar Orang
Kampung) Malaysia
Produced by Tan Chui Mui
and Amir Muhammad
In the propaganda war against
the Communist Party of Malaya
(CPM), much was made of the
fact that the Party comprised
ethnic Chinese who adopted
atheistic political philosophy.
This tactic proved effective, as
the country was mainly Malay
and Muslim. However, a large and
influential division of the CPM
comprised Malay—Muslims.
This documentary is a portrayal
of life in a tranquil South Thailand
village, complete with mosque,
where the retired members live in
exile. Recollections of the decadelong guerrilla war are interspersed
with fictional Thai radio drama.
BEST DOCUMENTARY
FEATURE FILM
NOMINEES
Beirut Diaries: Truth, Lies and
Videos
A Great Master Re-Captured
A Story of People in War and
Peace
Village People Radio Show
The Lost Land
BEST SCREENPLAY
NOMINEES
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Gandhi, My Father
Feroz Abbas Khan for
Gandhi, My Father India
Gandhi, My Father is the
cinematic debut of well-known
theatre director Feroz Abbas
Khan, a man respected not only
for exploring new forms in Indian
theatre but also for bringing Hindi
theatre into the mainstream. He is
best known for his adaptations of
The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Death
of a Salesman and perhaps his
most famous play—Mahatma v/s
Gandhi, which was extremely well
received the world over. Proficient
in various languages, Khan blends
the Eastern tradition of story
telling with Western sensibilities
and modernity.
Michael James Rowland
and Helen Barnes for Lucky
Miles Australia
Michael James Rowland
studied graphic design at the
North Adelaide School of Arts,
eventually working as Art Director
for the Adelaide Festival of Arts.
At the Australian Film Television
and Radio School (AFTRS) his
award-winning student films
Flying Over Mother (1996) and
The Existentialist Cowboy’s
Last Stand (1995) began his
Lucky Miles
Night Bus
Secret Sunshine
Takva: A Man’s Fear Of God
reputation as a passionate and
original writer/director. Lucky
Miles is Michael’s second screen
collaboration with Helen Barnes,
an award-winning novelist, the
first being BloodSports, a DIY
SBSTV initiative.
as a renowned novelist with his
first novel ‘Chonri’. Later in his
career he turned to movie making,
penning two screenplays, To
the Starry Island (1993) and A
Single Spark (1995). Deciding to
move into directing, Lee made
Green Fish (1997), and in 2000,
Peppermint Candy. All of his films
have received critical acclaim and
awards, including Oasis, which
won the prestigious Director’s
Award at the 2003 Venice Film
Festival. From 2003 to 2004, Lee
Chang-dong served as the minister
of Culture and Tourism in the
Republic of Korea Government.
Kiumars Pourahmad and
Habib Ahmadzadeh for
Night Bus (Autobus-E
Shab) Iran
Kiumars Pourahmad was born
in Isfahan in 1949 and started
his professional career in 1973
writing film reviews. Three years
later, he started writing and
making films and TV series. His
feature film credits include: For
the Sake of Haniyeh, Strange
Sisters, The Longest Night,
and Edelweiss. In 2006, Habib
Ahmadzadeh wrote Conversation
with the Shadow. Night Bus is his
second feature film.
Lee Chang-dong for
Secret Sunshine (Miryang)
Republic of Korea
Lee Chang-dong graduated in
1980 with a degree in Korean
Literature from Kyungpook
National University in Daegu.
In 1983 Lee established himself
Önder Çakar for Takva:
A Man’s Fear Of God
(Takva) Turkey/Germany
Önder Çakar founded Yeni
Sinemaclik San. Tic Ltd with his
creative partners, director, Serdar
Akar and producer, Sevil Demirci.
His previous feature film credits
as writer/producer include, Maruf,
Dar alanda kısa paslasmalar
(Offside), Laleli’de Bir Azize (A
Madonna in Laleli) and the awardwinning, Gemide (On Board).
(L–R): Feroz Abbas Khan, Michael James Rowland, Helen Barnes, Habib Ahmadzadeh, Kiumars Pourahmad, Lee Chang-dong, Önder Çakar.
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From left to right: Feroz Abbas Khan,
Michael James Rowland, Helen
Barnes, Habib Ahmadzadeh, Kiumars
Pourahmad, Lee Chang-dong, Önder
Çakar.
The Go Master
ACHIEVEMENT IN
CINEMATOGRAPHY
NOMINEES
Wang Yu, The Go Master
(Wu Qingyuan) People’s
Republic of China
One of China’s leading
cinematographers, Wang
Yu’s credits include Tian
Zhuangzhuang’s Wu Qingyuan
and Delamu, Yang Fan’s Colour
Blossoms and Lou Ye’s The Purple
Butterfly and Suzhou River.
Sergey Trofimov (RGC),
Mongol Russian Federation
Mongol
The Sun Also Rises
Born in Moscow in 1961, Sergey
Trofimov made his debut in
cinema in 1994 with the film
The Peshawar Waltz directed by
Timur Bekmambetov. Trofimov
has shot over 250 commercials
and music videos. He returned
to feature films shooting two
fantasy blockbusters for Timur
Bekmambetov, Night Watch (2004)
and Day Watch (2006), which
topped the Russian box office. He
is a specialist in shooting complex
scenes. In the film Mongol he
worked on the second expedition
to China, when all the main crowd
and battle scenes were shot for
the film.
Palitha Perera, Sankara
Sri Lanka
Those Three
Sankara
Palitha Perera is one of Sri Lanka’s
top cinematographers and has
been awarded all major awards
in Sri Lanka for his work. He has
shot more than 500 commercials,
20 television films and 2 feature
films. His second film ‘Sankara’
has won numerous awards at
various international film festivals,
including the Silver Pyramid
Award at the Cairo film festival.
Palitha’s experimental raw style
of cinematography was highly
acclaimed by film critics around
the globe. Palitha started his
work life as a teacher but his
great interest in photography and
a passion for the arts led him to
cinematography.
Fei Zhao, Mark Ping-bin Lee
and Tao Yang, The Sun Also
Rises People’s Republic of
China
Three of China’s leading
cinematographers. Fei Zhao
made his feature film debut
in 1986 as cinematographer
for acclaimed director, Tian
Zhuangzhuang’s The Horse Thief.
His many successful feature film
credits include, The Last Eunuch,
the award-winning, Raise The
Red Lantern, which won him Best
Cinematography award from
both the Los Angeles Film Critics
Association and the National
Society of Film Critics (USA). In
1998 he shot Chen Kaige’s The
Emperor and the Assassin and
earlier this century, Woody Allen’s
Small Time Crooks and Curse of
the Jade Scorpion. Mark Pingbin Lee’s name is inseparable
from that of Hou Hsiao-Hsien,
having accompanied the master
on his cinematic sojourn for two
decades, and shooting ten of his
films, including such classics as
City of Sadness (1989), as well as
recent work Café Lumiere (2004),
Three Times (2005) and Flight of
the Red Balloon (2007). Tao Yang
worked as cinematographer on
the feature films, The Sun Also
Rises (2007), Curiosity Kills the
Cat (2006), One Summer With
You (2005), Little Red Flowers
(2005), About Love (2004), Lan Yu
(2002), Jinji Pojiang (2000), and
So Close to Paradise (1999).
Hooman Behmanesh,
Those Three (An Seh) Iran
Born in 1980 in Lahijan Iran,
Hooman Behmanesh is a graduate
of Film Directing from Soureh
College of Istahani. He has been a
director of photography for eighty
short films and documentary
films as well as six feature films,
including President Mir Qanbar
(2006) and Abbas Kiarostami’s
latest film, Shirin.
(L–R): Wang Yu, Sergey Trofimov, Fei Zhao, Mark Ping-bin Lee and Tao Yang, Hooman Behmanesh, Palitha Perera.
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Mongol (Russian Federation).
BEST PERFORMANCE BY
AN ACTRESS NOMINEES
Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Al
Masri, Joanna Moukarzel,
Gisele Aouad, Asiza
Semaan and Siham
Haddad, Caramel
Lebanon / France
Hanan Turk, Cut And Paste
Nadine Labaki, Caramel
Joan Chen, The Home Song
Stories
Yasmine Al Masri, Caramel
Writer/Director, Nadine Labaki
heads up this fine ensemble cast
of Lebanese actresses. Nadine
Labaki was born in Lebanon and
studied media at Saint-Joseph
University in Beirut. She is one
of the well known directors in
the Arabic music videos industry
and has directed clips for many
well known Middle-Eastern
artists. In 2004, she attended the
Résidence du Festival de Cannes
to write Caramel. She is joined
by the outstanding ensemble
of actresses; Yasmine Al Masri,
Joanna Moukarzei, Gisele Aouad,
Asiza Semaan and Siham Haddad
for this nomination.
Hanan Turk, Cut And Paste
(Kas Wa Lazk) Egypt
Baran Kosari, Mainline
Joanna Moukarzel, Caramel
Jeon Do-yeon, Secret Sunshine
Gisele Aouad, Caramel
Siham Haddad, Caramel
Hanan Turk studied at the Ballet
Institute, became a member of
the Cairo Ballet Group and later,
the Classic Ballet Group. In 1991
she burst onto the acting scene
starring alongside Nadia El-Gendy
in Raghba Motawahesha, directed
by Khayry Bishara. One of Egypt’s
foremost actresses, Hanan has
managed to make her mark on
Arab audiences in a number of
Egyptian films including, Youssef
Shahine’s Al-Mohager, Al-Massir
and Al-Akhar. She also starred in
a selection of successful TV series
including Al-Sabr Fel Malahat, AlMal We Al-Banoun, Lan A’esh Fe
Gelbab Aby, Amira Men Abdeen
and Opera Aida. In 2005 Hanan
played the lead role in the film
Dunia, directed by Jocelyne Saab.
The film attracted a lot of attention
not only in Egypt but also in
Europe with its controversial topic,
female circumcision.
Joan Chen, The Home
Song Stories Australia
Asiza Semaan, Caramel
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Joan Chen first became famous in
China in 1979 for her performance
in Zhang Zheng’s Little Flower
for which she won the Hundred
Flowers Award in China. Chen
achieved this stardom status
while still a teenager and caused
Time magazine to dub her “the
Elizabeth Taylor of China”. At
age twenty, Chen moved to
the United States where she
studied filmmaking at California
State University, and became a
naturalised USA citizen. Her first
Hollywood movie was Tai-Pan,
filmed on location in China. She
went on to star in Bernardo
Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor in
1987 and the David Lynch/Mark
Frost television series Twin Peaks.
In 1993 she co-starred in Oliver
Stone’s Heaven & Earth. Tired of
being cast as an exotic beauty
in Hollywood films, Chen moved
into directing in 1998 with the
critically acclaimed Xiu Xiu: The
Sent Down Girl. She later directed
Autumn in New York in 2000.
In 2004 Chen made an acting
comeback and has appeared in 7
films with release scheduled for
2007 and 2008.
Baran Kosari, Mainline
(Khoonbazi) Iran
Baran Kosari was born in 1985 in
Tehran, Iran. She is the daughter
of director Rakhshan BaniEtemad and producer Jahangir
Kosari. After graduating from
Soureh Academy her first role
was in the film, The Best Papa
of the World (1991), followed by
Nargess (1991), The Blue-Veiled
(1994), Ordibehesht Lady (1997)
and Under The Skin Of The City
(2000). Ms Kosari’s appearances
in theatre include Over The
Mirror (1997), with Azita Hajian
directing. Ms Kosari’s awards
include, Crystalline Simorgh and a
Diploma of Honor in the 25th Fajr
International Film Festival.
Jeon Do-yeon, Secret
Sunshine (Miryang)
Republic of Korea
Jeon Do-yeon spent five years
starring in television dramas before
making her film debut opposite
Han Suk-kyu in The Contact. She
went on to play many diverse roles
in films such as A Promise and
The Harmonium in My Memory
for which she received two
awards for Best Actress, The Blue
Dragon and The Grand Bell. Her
other films include Happy End,
Park Heung-shik’s debut I Wish I
Had a Wife, and his more recent
drama My Mother, the Mermaid;
Ryoo Seung-wan’s No Blood No
Tears, E J-yong’s Untold Scandal,
based on the famous French novel
(Dangerous Liasions), and Park
Jin-pyo’s You’re My Sunshine. Her
performance in that film helped turn
the film into a box-office hit and
won her many local acting awards.
Jeon Do-yeon won Best Leading
Actress at Cannes in 2007 for her
performance in Secret Sunshine.
Ryu Deok-hwan, Like a Virgin
Erkan Can, Takva: A Man’s
Fear of God
Evgeniy Antropov, Hard-Hearted
Mehrdad Seddiqian, Night Bus
Sasson Gabai, The Band’s Visit
BEST PERFORMANCE BY
AN ACTOR NOMINEES
Sasson Gabai, The Band’s
Visit (Bikur Hatizmoret)
Israel
Ryu Deok-hwan, Like A
Virgin (Cheon Ha Jang Sa
Madonna) Republic of Korea
Erkan Can, Takva: A Man’s
Fear Of God (Takva)
Turkey/Germany
One of Israel’s leading and
prolific actors, Sasson Gabai is
a graduate of Tel Aviv University,
Drama Dept. He has appeared
in an enormous number of Israeli
and international films, television
series and theatre plays. He has
won numerous prizes and awards,
including the Landaw Award for
the Performing Arts, Best Actor,
The Israel Academy of Theatre
and Best Actor for Supporting
Role, The Israeli Academy of
Cinema. His previous film roles
include, Aviva My Love, Rambo III,
The Order, Made in Israel, Scar,
Les Patriots, Tel Aviv Stories,
Cherry Season, First Light, Not
Without My Daughter, The Quarry
and War Zone.
Ryu Deok-hwan was born in 1987
and started his acting career on
stage at age 6. He appeared in
numerous TV programs including
an ongoing role for 8 years in a
popular TV drama. While he had
appeared in minor roles in several
films, it was his breakout lead
performance in Like A Virgin that
saw him win the Best New Actor
Award at both the Blue Dragon
Film Awards and the Pusan Film
Critics Awards, as well as a Best
Actor nomination from the Korean
Film Awards. He gained 28kg
in three months to play the role
truthfully. His has since shot My
Son and Our Town.
Erkan Can was born in 1958
in Bursa, Turkey. He started
his drama career in 1975 by
taking drama classes at Bursa
State Theatre. In 1985 he
began studying at the Istanbul
Municipality Conservatuary
—Drama Department, and
graduated in 1990. His feature
film debut, On Board, earned him
three Best Actor Awards—from
the Antalya Film Festival, The
Ankara Film Festival and the
Orhan Ariburnu Awards. His other
films include, Offside, Visontele,
Toss Up, Listen to Istanbul, In
Prison Now, Destiny and Fatih
Akin’s Edge of Heaven.
Evgeniy Antropov,
Hard-Hearted (Kremen)
Russian Federation
Born in Moscow in 1986 actor
Evgeniy Antropov makes his
feature film debut as a young
policeman confronted by
corruption in the Russian capital
under the direction of debutwriter/director Aleksei Mizgiryov.
He is currently in his fourth year
at the Russian Academy of the
Theatre Arts (GITIS).
Mehrdad Seddiqian, Night
Bus (Autobus-E Shab) Iran
Born in 1988 in Tehran, Mehrdad
Seddiqian was cast in his first
feature film, Mona Zandi’s Friday
Evening, after answering an
advertisement in the newspaper
for amateur actors. Night Bus is
his second feature film.
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Caramel
Crossing the Dust
Karoy
Mainline
Little Moth
ACHIEVEMENT IN
DIRECTING NOMINEES
Nadine Labaki for Caramel
Lebanon / France
Nadine Labaki was born in
Lebanon and studied media at
Saint-Joseph University in Beirut.
She is a well-known director in the
Arabic music video industry and
has directed clips for many well
known Middle-Eastern artists. In
2004, she attended the Résidence
du Festival de Cannes to write
Caramel. Caramel premiered in
Cannes film festival 2007 during
the Directors fortnight and is Ms
Labaki’s first feature film. Ms
Labaki also stars in Caramel.
Shawkat Amin Korki
for Crossing the Dust
(Parinawa La Ghobar)
Iraq/Kurdistan
Shawkat Amin Korki was born
in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1973. To
join his family, he was forced by
Iraqi militia to flee to Iran where
he stayed until 1999. During his
years in Iran and afterwards when
he returned to Iraqi Kurdistan,
he began to work for the theatre,
television and cinema. His short
films, made between 1997 and
2005, have been presented at
many international festivals to
excellent reception and have
won several awards. In 2002, he
helped organise the first Erbil
Short Film Festival. Crossing The
Dust, his first feature film, was
shown at the International Film
Festival of Rotterdam in 2007.
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and
Mohsen Abdolvahab for
Mainline (Khoonbazi) Iran
Zhanna Issabayeva for
Karoy Kazakhstan
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad is
one of Iran’s leading female
contemporary filmmakers. Her
work is marked by a strong social
and political consciousness
and commitment. Born in
Tehran in 1954, Bani-Etemad
studied film at the University of
Dramatic Arts and in 1973 joined
national TV as a script girl. In
1977 she began her directing
career as a documentaryfilmmaker for television. She
shot her first feature film, Kharej
az Mahdudeh—Off the Limits
in 1987 and in 1991 was the
first woman to win the Best
Director award at Iran’s most
prestigious Fajr Film Festival with
the film, Nargess. Co-director
Mohsen Abdolvahab was born
in 1957 in Tehran. Abdolvahab
is a graduate in Editing from the
IRIB University. He began his
cinematic career in 1980, editing
over 30 documentary and feature
films and producing 23 short
documentaries and award-winning
feature film documentaries.
Previous film collaborations with
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad include,
Nargess and Gilaneh.
Zhanna Issabayeva was born
in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 1968.
Zhanna graduated in journalism
and has worked for many
years in the advertising field.
She executive produced the
films Last Holiday and Zhilama,
and is currently the head of
Sun Production, the biggest
production house in Kazakhstan.
The independent Karoy is
Zhanna’s first feature film as a
director and scriptwriter.
Peng Tao for Little Moth
(Xue Chan) People’s
Republic of China
Peng Tao was born in Beijing
in 1974 and received his
bachelor degree from the Art
Department of Beijing Film
Academy in 2004. His awardwinning student films, Story
in The Winter and Goodbye
Childhood were both screened
internationally at festivals. In
March 2007, Peng finished
the independently produced
Little Moth (Xue Chan), his first
feature film.
(L-R): Nadine Labaki, Shawkat Amin Korki, Zhanna Issabayeva, Peng Tao.
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BEST FEATURE
FILM NOMINEES
Caramel
Night Bus
Secret Sunshine
Takva: A Man’s Fear of God
Opera Jawa
Caramel Lebanon /France
Opera Jawa Indonesia
Produced by Anne
Dominique Toussaint.
Co-Produced by
Les Films de Beyrouth and
Raphaël Burdugo.
Produced by Garin Nugroho,
Simon Field, and Keith Griffiths
In Beirut, five women meet up at
a beauty salon, a highly colourful
and sensual microcosm. Layale
loves Rabih, but he is a married
man. Nisrine is Muslim and her
forthcoming wedding poses
a problem: she’s no longer a
virgin. Rima is tormented by her
attraction to women. Jamale is
refusing to grow old. Rose has
sacrificed herself to look after
her older sister, Lili. Between
haircuts and sugar-waxing with
caramel, the women at the salon
share intimate and liberated
conversations about men, sex
and motherhood.
Night Bus (Autobus-E
Shab) Iran
Produced by Mehdi
Homayounfar
Night Bus, a black-and-white war
drama, travels back to the IranIraq conflict of the mid-1980’s,
when a young private is forced to
transport 38 Iraqi prisoners-of-war
to their home base in a halfdilapidated bus. The obstinate
and slightly irascible driver
must pilot the vehicle through a
dangerous lay of land, packed
with mortar shells and explosive
mines. Uninterested with wartime
heroics, the film denounces the
senselessness of the conflict,
which pitted ordinary men from
two closely related nations against
each other at the behest of
fanatical leaders.
Opera Jawa, rich in symbols and
mysticism, is about a man and
wife, Setio and Siti, who live in a
small village and earn their living
selling earthenware pots. Ludiro,
a rich man who controls trading
activities using various forms of
violence, also lives in the village
and, like Setio and Siti, is a former
dancer in wayang orang, the
traditional Javanese dance-drama.
Setio and Siti’s life takes a turn for
the worse when their earthenware
business goes bankrupt. Ludiro,
who has always been in love with
Siti, tries to seduce her. Without
realising it, the three former
dancers enter into a triangle of
conflict that mirrors the conflict
in the episode Sinta Obong/The
Abduction of Sinta that they used
to perform in the wayang orang
version of the Ramayana story.
Secret Sunshine (Miryang)
Republic of Korea
Produced by Kim In-soo, Lee
Chang-dong, and Hanna Lee.
When her husband passes
away in an automobile accident,
Shin-ae and her son Jun relocate
down south to her late husband’s
hometown of Miryang. Despite
her efforts to settle down in
this unfamiliar and much too
normal place, she finds that
she can’t quite fit in. She opens
a new piano academy and
makes attempts to mingle with
neighbors, but nothing works.
Takva: A Man’s Fear
of God (Takva)
Turkey /Germany
Produced by Sevil
Demirci Çakar.
Co-Produced by Corazón
International.
Humble introvert, Muharrem lives
a solitary and meager existence
of prayer and sexual abstinence,
adhering strictly to the most
severe Islamic doctrines. His
extraordinary devotion attracts
the attention of the leaders of
a rich and powerful Istanbul
religious group and they offer
him an administrative post as
rent collector for their numerous
properties. Now, thrown into
the modern outside world
Muharrem must deal with the
dilemmas and temptations arising
at the intersection of religion
and economic interests. His
inner peace is unnerved by the
torment of seductive images,
the witnessing of hypocritical
attitudes and by the fact that
he himself has become proud,
domineering and even dishonest.
With the balance of his devotion
now upset, his fear of God begins
to eat away at his senses.
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FIAPF AWARD
INTERNATIONAL
FEDERATION OF FILM
PRODUCERS ASSOCIATIONS
AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING
ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM IN
THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION.
The winner of the FIAPF Award will be decided
by the International Federation of Film Producers
Associations in its absolute discretion.
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UNESCO AWARD
UNITED NATIONS
EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC,
AND CULTURAL
ORGANISATION (UNESCO)
AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING
CONTRIBUTION TO
THE PROMOTION AND
PRESERVATION OF
CULTURAL DIVERSITY
THROUGH FILM.
All nominees in each of the nine awards categories
of the 2007 Asia Pacific Screen Awards were
automatically nominated for the UNESCO Award.
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FILM IN QUEENSLAND
Queensland has always exerted a powerful
influence on the creative imagination in Australia,
so it’s not surprising that a large number of films
have originated and been set here.
The most famous of Australian pioneer directors,
Charles Chauvel (1897–1959), was born in
Queensland. Chauvel aspired to a film industry
that projected Australian stories and landscape
for world audiences. The only Australian filmmaker
to successfully make the transition from silent
to sound films, his most notable films are Forty
Thousand Horsemen (1940), Sons of Matthew
(1949) and Jedda (1955). He also had an astute
sense of emerging acting talent, giving such
internationally reputed actors as Errol Flynn, Chips
Rafferty and Peter Finch their first major roles.
Charles and Elsa Chauvel.
Jedda (1955).
Two notable silent films with Aboriginal themes,
Coorab on the Island of Ghosts and The Romance
of Runnibede, were made in Queensland in the
1920’s. But Chauvel’s Jedda, set in the Top End of
the continent, was the first colour feature directed
by an Australian, the first film to cast Aborigines
as the principal characters, and the first Australian
film to be invited to Cannes.
Other notable features made in or referring to
Queensland include the Ealing Studios’ production,
The Overlanders (1946), the first Australian-made
film to earn a place in the top ten annual world
box office takings; Bruce Beresford’s exploration
of Aboriginal people living adjacent to a small rural
town, The Fringe Dwellers (1986); and such rites
of passage films as The Mango Tree (1977), The
Irishman (1978), and The Delinquents (1989). One
of the most powerful Australian films of recent
times, The Proposition (2005), is a stark depiction
of life in a small Queensland frontier town at the
end of the colonial period of Australian history.
The preponderance of production focusing on the
Gold Coast is partly a consequence of the location
there of the Warner Roadshow Studios, and partly
a reflection of a lifestyle which is unique within
Australia, as evidenced in such films as Goodbye
Sons of Matthew (1949).
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Paradise (1983), The Coolangatta Gold (1984),
Blurred (2002) and Gettin’ Square (2003).
Another aspect of the film industry in Queensland
is the production of features and telefilms that
use local locations to double for other parts of the
world. Possibly the most notable of these was The
Thin Red Line (1998), with Terence Malick using
tropical North Queensland to replicate the jungles
of Guadalcanal, while Baz Luhrmann has just
concluded scenes for the forthcoming blockbuster,
Australia, starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole
Kidman, in which the North Queensland town of
Bowen represents Darwin in the late 1930’s.
Charles Chauvel would no doubt be delighted at
the way that his vision of filmmaking in Queensland
has come to fruition.
The annual Chauvel Award, presented at the
time of the Brisbane International Film Festival,
acknowledges people who have made an
outstanding contribution to film in Australia.
AUSTRALIA’S
GOLD COAST
WORLD CLASS LOCATIONS.
AN EXCITING ATMOSPHERE.
AN ICONIC AUSTRALIAN
DESTINATION.
Australia’s Gold Coast has long been the
focus of filmmaking—locally, nationally, and
internationally. Glorious weather, legendary
beaches, diverse locations, entertainment parks,
world class filming facilities and an atmosphere
of freedom, excitement and passion keep
tourists and filmmakers returning to this iconic
Australian destination.
The Gold Coast regularly hosts the Annual
Conference of SPAA, the Screen Producers
Association of Australia; the National Inside
Film People’s Choice Awards; the Australian
International Movie Convention; and now, in its
inaugural year, the Asia Pacific Screen Awards,
authenticating the Gold Coast as a major film hub.
Sheraton Mirage Resort & Spa Gold Coast—host venue for the
2007 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards is an international cultural
initiative of the State Government of Queensland, Australia
through Queensland Events Corporation.
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Television Production
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Premier of Queensland.
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Minale Bryce
Design Strategy
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Ray Smith, Chief Executive Officer
Scene By Scene
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Development Manager
Queensland
Events Corporation
Pty Ltd.
Board of Directors
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QEC Management and Staff.
Asia Pacific
Screen Awards
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Co-Executive Producer,
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Jane Hickey, Executive Director
Richard Watson, General Manager
Sharyn Sawyer, Head of Marketing
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Maxine Williamson, Associate
Producer, Awards Administration
Melissa Price, Office Manager
Katherine Davies, Marketing
Coordinator & Executive Assistant
to Executive Director
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Assistant
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Coordinator
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Volunteers.
TM Publicity
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APSA Advisory
Council
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Australia
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Professor & Director, Centre for
Communication for Development
& Social Change, School of
Journalism and Communication,
The University of Queensland
Anupam Sharma, Managing
Director, Temple Film and Casting.
CNN Reporter
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DGSE Management and Staff.
The Awards Program
Supervising Producer
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Production Executive
Prue Miller
Director
John Smith
Consultant Peter Faiman
Writer
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Michael Scott-Mitchell
Lighting Designer
Nick Schlieper
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Ann Buchner
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Graphics Designer
Michael Murray
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Production Accountant
Carol Seeley
OB Manager
Dennis Dovale.
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and Jury members have executed
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and Conflict of Interest.
Nominations Council and Jury
members with an interest in any
film in the Awards process did not
participate in any decision on that
film in any Award category.
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The Asia Pacific Screen Awards thanks and acknowledges the many
people and organisations who have contributed to this initiative.
The Cancer Council Sunscreens
CNN
FIAPF
UNESCO
Rena Golden, Senior Vice
President and Executive Producer,
CNN.com
Executive Committee
UNESCO, Paris
Andrés Vicente Gomez (Spain),
President
Koïchiro Matsuura,
Director-General
Paul De Carvalho
Aurelio de Laurentiis ( Italy),
Honorary President
Abdul Waheed Khan,
Assistant Director-General for
Communication and Information
Chris Marcich (USA),
First Vice-President
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Director-General for Culture.
Dreamworld
David Lindsay, Executive Producer,
CNN International
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President, CNN Broadcast and
Commercial Sales and Senior Vice
President, Marketing and Affiliate
Relations, Asia Pacific.
P.V. Gangadharan (India),
First Vice-President for Asia-Pacific
Phil O’Sullivan, Executive
Producer, CNN International
Asia Pacific
Han Sanping (China),
Vice-President
Chris Dwyer, Associate Director
Public Relations, CNN Asia Pacific
Luis Scalella (Argentina)
Nicky Robinson, Marketing
Director, Brand Management,
CNN International Asia Pacific
Ian MacIntosh, Consultant,
CNN International Asia Pacific
(Former Senior Vice President)
CNN Management and Staff.
John Barrack (Canada)
Zhu Yongde (China)
Sunit Tandon (India)
Australian Permanent
Delegation to UNESCO
Ernst & Young
Fagaleo
Fosters Group
Griffith University and The Griffith
University Film School work
placement students
William Thorn,
Deputy Permanent Delegate
Anne Siwicki, Policy Officer.
Vladimir Dostal (Russia)
Australian National
Commission for UNESCO
Susan Pascoe, Chair
Ian McRae, Deputy Chair
Ken Wiltshire, Former Chair.
Geoffrey Brown (Australia), Auditor
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Director General
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Director General in charge
of Festivals
Professor John Fien
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Administration & Economic Affairs.
Department of Foreign Affairs
and Trade
Jane Madden,
Former Permanent Delegate
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(USA/ Europe)
Coolum Kite Festival
Gold Coast City Council
Gianni Massaro (Italy)
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Sally Mansfield, Minister –
Permanent Delegate
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Deputy Permanent Delegate
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Clayton Utz
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Professor Ian Lowe AO
Dr Jan Lyall PSM
Gold Coast Tourism
Lime Photography
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Mullins and Mullins
Pacific Film & Television
Commission
Perrier
Queensland Art Gallery and
The Gallery Of Modern Art
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Gold Coast
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Tourism Queensland
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Craddock Morton
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(Screen Producers Association
of Australia)
Parliamentary Observers:
Trish Lake, President
Kevin Rudd MP.
Andrew Laming MP
Geoff Brown, Executive Director
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Consultant
Honorary Members:
Gaylee Butler, Conference
Producer.
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