Movie On 2022

Yesterday the 2019 APSA awards ceremony took place in Brisbane, Australia and as expected Palme d'Or winner and already collector of several prestigious awards, Parasite by Bong Joon Ho won top award.  Yes, this is the film that most of us expect to win the Oscar for Best International Feature Film and unless something odd happens will get it. By-the-way Parasite was one of the six APSA-winning films that are their countrie's submissions for consideration in that Oscars category. Other international feature film Oscars entries are Russia's Beanpole which was the only film to take two awards, best cinematography and best screenplay.  Australia's entry, Buoyancy won Best Youth Feature, Japan's Weathering With You won Best Animated Feature, Philippine's Veredict won Best Actress and fabulous Elia Suleiman's It Must Be Heaven, is Palestine's entry, won a special Jury Grand Prize. Also the Cultural Diversity Award winner Rona, Azim's Mother, was Afghanist...

A few days back, on November 29 the 2018 APSA awards ceremony took place in Brisbane, Australia and for the first time top award went to a Japanese film as Shoplifters won Best Feature Film. The Jury Prize went to Burning; so, APSA is honoring the two films that are penetrating the 2018 American Awards season with nominations and wins in the best foreign language film category as well as in other tech categories. Remarkable is the spread of awards as represent the geographical and cultural diversity of the Asia Pacific region, awards ent to films from Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, China, Korea, Russia, Singapore and Turkey. The Cultural Diversity Award under the Patronage of UNESCO was awarded to Garin Nugroho and Ifa Isfansyah for Memories of My Body (Kucumbu Tubuh Indahku) (Indonesia) and accepted on the night by lead actor Muhummad Khan. The winner was determined by the APSA Cultural Diversity International Jury comprised of Jury Chair Khadija Al-Salami (Yemen...

Yesterday tried to watch the awards ceremony live stream but was not interesting at all especially because it took too long to get to honoring winners and when finally -after a long piano break- started with the first award the sound went off.  So gave up. Nevertheless checked winners and today its time to do the post.  According to official press release there are some milestones like it's the first ever APSA win for Georgia; Georgia and Russia Federation have top winner tally with three wins each, and most interesting, majority of Best Feautre awards go to female-directed films. Notable is Warwick Thornton who became the first director to have two films win APSA Best Feature Film and to be the only Australian director to have a film win in this category.  Will say does not surprise me his top award win which believe is a major honor as was competing against extraordinary films by Samuel Maoz and Sergei Loznitsa. The Winners Best Feature Film : Sweet Country , Warwick Th...