Dea Kulumbegashvili’s April scored a double win on the seventeenth Asia Pacific Display screen Awards (APSA), taking residence prizes for greatest movie and greatest efficiency for Ia Sukhitashvili.
The Georgian function centres on a talented obstetrician at a maternity hospital, who comes underneath scrutiny after a tragic episode, threatening her secret aspect job offering unsanctioned abortions. The movie premiered at Venice the place it gained the particular jury prize and went on to play Toronto and San Sebastian, successful greatest movie in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera competitors on the latter. Metrograph Footage picked up North American rights final month.
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Sukhitashvili was on the ceremony on Saturday (November 30) at The Langham on Australia’s Gold Coast to simply accept each awards.
April marks the second function for Kulumbegashvili, who was a recipient of an MPA APSA Academy Movie Fund grant for early improvement of the movie, which counts Luca Guadagnino amongst its producers.
The jury grand prize went to Payal Kapadia’s All We Think about As Gentle, which follows two nurses in nocturnal Mumbai. The movie was the primary Indian function to be chosen in Competitors at Cannes in 30 years the place it gained the competition’s Grand Prix.
An extra APSA winner from India was Boong, the debut function of Lakshmipriya Devi, which gained greatest youth movie. The story of a schoolboy who goes on a journey to reunite his household premiered at Toronto.
Alongside April, Georgia picked up an additional two awards. Tato Kotetishvili was named greatest director for Holy Electrical energy, which sees cousins promoting neon crucifixes door to door in Tbilisi, whereas Knowledge Chachua gained greatest new performer for Panopticon, which additionally stars Sukhitashvili.
The APSA for greatest animated movie went to The Lacking, a Filipino grownup sci-fi animation by director Carl Joseph Papa, who accepted the award on the night time. Greatest documentary movie was gained by No Different Land, directed as a bunch by Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham who present their perspective on the violence and destruction surrounding them.
Additionally introduced throughout ceremony had been the 4 recipients of APSA’s US$25,000 improvement grants, which included Indonesian function Watch It Burn by Autobiography author/director Makbul Mubarak.
Asia Pacific Display screen Awards 2024 winners
Greatest Movie
April (Geo-It-Fr)
Jury Grand Prize
All We Think about As Gentle (Fr-It-Neth-Lux)
Greatest Youth Movie
Boong (India)
Greatest Animated Movie
The Lacking (Phil)
Greatest Documentary Movie
No Different Land (Pal-Nor)
Greatest Director
Tato Kotetishvili for Holy Electrical energy (Geo-Neth)
Greatest Screenplay
Selman Nacar for Hesitation Wound (Turk-Sp-Rom-Fr)
Greatest Cinematography
Michaël Capron for Mongrel (Tai-Sing-Fr)
Greatest Efficiency
Ia Sukhitashvili for April (Geo-It-Fr)
Greatest New Performer
Knowledge Chachua for Panopticon (Geo-Fr-It-Rom)
Cultural Range Award
Shambhala (Nep-Fr-Nor-HK-Turk-Tai-US-Qatar)
Younger Cinema Award
Neo Sora for Happyend (Japan-US)
FIAPF Award
Cliff Curtis (NZ)
2024 MPA APSA Movie Fund Recipients
- Outdoors Kabul, animated documentary, prod. Estelle Fialon (Fr)
- Watch It Burn, fiction function, prod. Yulia Evina Bhara (Indo) and prod/dir. Makbul Mubarak
- Fuxi: Pleasure In 4 Chapters, fiction function, cin. Robbin Yuchao Feng (China) and dir. Jiongjiong Qiu
- A Journey To Australia, fiction function, prod. Aiko Masubuchi (Japan-US) and prod/scr/dir. Neo Sora
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