Na Hong-jin is part of a new wave of Korean directors. In 2005 Na Hong-jin received the Best Horror/Sci-fi Short Film Award at Mise-en-Scène Film Festival with his nine-and-a-half-minute short film The Perfect Fishplate. In 2008 his feature debut The Chaser swept the nation with over five million admissions and was invited to be a special midnight screening at the 61st Cannes Film Festival. His feature debut accumulated countless awards from all over the world and received an APSA nomination in 2008 for Best Performance by an Actor (Kim Yoonsuk). The Yellow Sea was released in South Korea on December 15, 2010 with great box office success and was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
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.
