Four Indian films compete for Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Four Indian films, which includes Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox, Amit Virmani’s Menstrual Man and Shilpa Ranade’s The World of Goopi and Bagha have been nominated under different categories for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards while Rajeev Ravi has earned a nomination for Achievement in Cinematography in Amit Kumar’s Monsoon Shootout.
The Lunchbox will compete at the Best Screenplay while The World of Goopi and Bagha has been nominated in the Best Animated Feature Film category. Amit Virmani’s Menstrual Man, a Singapore – India co-production, has been nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Film.
The six films that will compete for the best feature film award are Omar (Palestine), Le Passé (The Past, France, Italy), Soshite Chichi Ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son, Japan), Bangladesh’s first APSA nomination Television, anthology film The Turning (Australia) and With You, Without You (Sri Lanka).
Around 39 films from 22 countries will compete in nine different categories. For the first time, films from Bangladesh, Jordan and Saudi Arabia are nominated for APSA.
Veteran Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal heads the jury which comprises South Korean director KIM Tae-yong, Sri Lankan actress Malini Fonseka, Turkish actor Tamer Levent, Swiss director Christoph Schaub and Hong Kong producer Albert Lee.
The award ceremony will be held December 12, 2013 in Brisbane.
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NOMINATIONS LIST
BEST FEATURE FILM
Like Father, Like Son [Japan]
Omar [Palestine]
The Past [France, Italy]
Television [Bangladesh]
The Turning [Australia]
With You, Without You [Sri Lanka]
BEST CHILDREN’S FEATURE FILM
Juvenile Offender [South Korea]
Leaving on the 15th Spring [Japan]
Shopping [New Zealand]
Wadjda [Saudi Arabia, Germany]
When I Saw You [Palestine, Jordan]
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
The Act of Killing [Denmark, Norway, UK]
The Gatekeeper [Israel, France, Germany, Belgium]
Menstrual Men [Singapore, India]
No Burqas Behind Bars [Sweden, Japan, Netherlands, Denmark]
A World Not Ours [Lebanon, UK, UAE, Denmark, Palestine]
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Fake [South Korea]
Koo! Kin-Dza-Dza [Russia]
Patema Inverted [Japan]
The Wind Rises [Japan]
The World of Goopi and Bagha [India]
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
Anthony Chen for Ilo Ilo
Emir Baigazin for Harmony Lessons
Hiner Saleem for My Sweet Pepperland
Kore-eda Hirokazu for Like Father, Like Son
Shahram Mokri for Fish and Cat
BEST SCREENPLAY
Asghar Farhadi for The Past
Denis Osokin for Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki and Anisul Haque for Television
Ritesh Batra forThe Lunchbox
U-Wei Hajisaari for Almayer’s Folly Hanyut
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ehab Assal for Omar
LÜ Yue for Back to 1942
Mandy Walker for Tracks
Murat Aliyev for The Old Man Shal
Rajeev Rav forMonsoon Shootout
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR
Aaron Pedersen for Mystery Road
Adam Bakri for Omar
LEE Byeong-heon forMasquerade
NAKADAI Tatsuya for Japan’s Tragedy
Yerbolat Toguzakov for The Old Man
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS
Ayça Damgacı for Yozcat Blues
Golshifteh Farahani for My Sweet Pepperland
Negar Javaherian for The Painting Pool
Whirimako Black White Lies
ZHANG Ziyi for The Grandmaster
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