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Asghar Farhadi to preside 8th Asia Pacific Screen Awards Jury
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ASGHAR FARHADI ANNOUNCED AS PRESIDENT OF 8th ANNUAL APSA INTERNATIONAL JURY
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 Image: Asghar Farhadi at the 2011 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. |
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APSA is pleased to announce long time APSA Academy member and internationally renowned Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi as President of the International Jury for the 2014 Awards in December.
A three-time APSA winner, Farhadi's role as Jury President marks the fifth APSA ceremony of which he will be a part and the first time an Iranian filmmaker serves as President of the APSA International Jury. The acclaimed writer/director is one of the only filmmakers to receive APSA nominations for three different films across the seven-year history of the event and his films have received an impressive ten nominations in total.
Speaking from Tehran, Asghar Farhadi said ''I am very proud of my long association with APSA and am very much looking forward to fulfilling the honourable role of President of the Jury for 2014. It is truly special to be able to celebrate the outstanding cinema of the Asia Pacific region, which produces half of the world's film, and it will be both a pleasure and a challenge to determine the 2014 APSA winners with the International Jury in Brisbane in December."
Asghar Farhadi became a member of the APSA Academy in 2009 when his film Darbareye Elly (About Elly) won the Jury Grand Prize and Best Screenplay awards and received a further two nominations for Achievement in Directing and Best Performance by an Actress for two-time APSA nominee Golshifteh Farahani.
In 2011, Farhadi's Jodaiye Nader Az Simin (A Separation) won the Golden Bear for Best Film and Silver Bears for Best Actress and Best Actor at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival before going on to win the APSA for Best Feature Film in the same year. In 2012, A Separation went on to win the Golden Globe® and Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film.
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ANTHONY CHEN TO JOIN THE 2014 APSA INTERNATIONAL JURY |
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 Image: Anthony Chen at the 2013 APSA Ceremony |
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Award-winning Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen has been appointed as a member of the International Jury for this year's Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA).
The appointment was announced Friday at a special event at the private residence of Mr Philip Green, Australian High Commissioner to Singapore, and follows Anthony Chen's 2013 APSA win for Achievement in Directing for his debut feature Ilo, Ilo, the first APSA win for a Singaporean film.
One of Variety magazine's 10 Directors to Watch, Anthony Chen said "APSA has been held in high regard because of its discerning and uncompromising quest to recognise the best filmmaking our Asia Pacific region has to offer. So it is a real honour for me to return to Brisbane as a jury member and even more special to be judging alongside Jury President Asghar Farhadi, a filmmaker I admire and respect greatly".
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KOREA'S LEE BYUNG-HUN PRESENTED WITH HIS APSA |
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 Image (L-R): APSA Academy members Kim Tae-yong, Lee Choon-yun, Kim Dong-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Kim Hong-joon and APSA Chairman Michael Hawkins |
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Internationally renowned Korean actor Lee Byung-hun has received his 2013 Asia Pacific Screen Award (APSA) for Best Performance by an Actor for his dual performance in the multi-award winning blockbuster Masquerade, after missing last year's APSA ceremony due to film commitments.
Honoured at an event at the Australian Embassy in Seoul, Mr Lee was also inducted into the prestigious Asia Pacific Screen Academy. The award was presented by 2013 International Jury member Kim Tae-yong with APSA Chairman Michael Hawkins in attendance.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO CANNES PALME D'OR WINNER WINTER SLEEP |
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APSA would like to congratulate the team from the 2014 Cannes Palme d'Or winning film Kis Uykusu (Winter Sleep), in particular the many APSA Academy members involved, director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, producer Zeynep Özbatur Atakan, actor Tamer Levent, cinematographer Gökhan Tiryaki, screenwriters Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan and co-producers Rémi Burah, Mustafa Dok and Alexandre Mallet-Guy. Adding to this success, the film also received the prestigious FIPRESCI Prize for the Official Competition. |
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