APSA Nominees & Winners

Originally from Japan, Hideho began his career in the United States after studying film at New York University. He worked as a camera assistant on…

Chaiyapruek Chalermpornpanit is a Bangkok based Director of Photography whose work has been featured across a variety of international feature films, television series and commercials.…

Nawarophaat Rungphiboonsophit was born in 1984 and has worked extensively as camera operator, assistant cameraman and director of photography on 16mm, 35mm and digital productions.…

Born in Bangalore in 1986, Saumyananda Sahi was the youngest participant in the 2004 Talent Campus India and the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2005. Over…

Zhang Miaoyang was born in the Manchuria region, growing up during the Cultural Revolution, which meant he had little access to movies. He later studied…

Nadine Labaki grew up amid civil war in Lebanon. After studying, she moved into directing TV commercials and music videos, and won several awards. In…

Ivan Ayr grew up in northern India. Despite receiving a degree in Electrical Engineering, he pursued postgraduate studies in the United States in English literature…

Bruce Beresford was born in Sydney, Australia and worked for the British Film Institute before directing his first feature film in 1972. The Adventures of…

Born in 1984 in Kazakhstan, Emir Baigazin graduated from the Kazakh National Academy of Arts in 2009. In 2008, Baigazin participated in the Berlinale Talent…

Kore-eda Hirokazu is one of Japan’s most highly regarded auteurs. His directorial debut Maborosi (1995) won the 52nd Venice International Film Festival’s Golden Osella Prize.…

Rezo is an animated documentary movie told and painted by Rezo Gabriadze, a prolific Georgian artist, writer and creator of Marionette theatre. This autobiographical film…

For director Stanislav Sokolov, Hoffamniada is the culmination of over ten years work on a story about the Prussian literary master of the early 19th…