APSA Nominees & Winners

Ksenia Sereda is a Russian cinematographer who graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and has since amassed credits including Little Bird (2014) , Petersburg.…

Kim Hyunseok is a cinematographer born in 1977. Growing up in Seoul, he performed in band and completed two years of military service before enrolling…

Saurabh Monga was born in India where he also spent his childhood before leaving to complete his higher studies in the United States. He then…

Teoh Gay Hian was born in 1969 in Muar, Johor, in Malaysia, and is now based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has worked as a cinematographer…

Born in 1987 in Zhejiang Province and studied at the Beijing Film Academy, cinematographer Yu Ninghui received his first APSA nomination for Dwelling in the…

Adilkhan Yerzhanov is one of Kazakhstan’s foremost filmmakers. In 1999, he received accolades for the first ever Kazakh animation series Kozy-Korpesh and Bayan-Sulu. He was…

Elia Suleilman was born in 1960 and is a Palestinian filmmaker who is best known for his films Divine Intervention (2002), which won the Jury…

Born in Thailand, Anocha Suwichakornpong is one of the nation’s most exciting up-and-coming names whose dreamlike works have been compared to Apichatpong Weerasethakul. She graduated…

Lavrente Indico Diaz or Lav Diaz has he is known is a filmmaker from the Philippines and one of the most famous names on the…

Wang Xiaoshuai was a pioneer figure of Chinese independent films in the 1990s. By virtue of strong personal style, deep concern for humanity, and diligent…

It is the first year of high school for Hodaka and he runs away from his home on an outlying island of Japan and goes…

Mosley is the patriarch of a family of thoriphants – elephant-like creatures with facial features of a sheep – whose son discovers a collection of…