Kwak Sin-ae is a Korean film producer. Their first film was Happy End (1999) for director Ji Woo Chung, which won two Korean Association of Film Critics Awards. They produced Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring (2003) for renowned filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk. It won four prizes at the Locarno International Film Festival as well as 11 other international awards. This was followed by The Scarlet Letter (2004), Maundy Thursday (2006), and Modern Boy (2008). More recently, they produced Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (2016), winner of two Grand Bell Awards of South Korea, and Parasite, which that was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. They received their first APSA nomination for Best Feature Film.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
