Award
Winners of the 22nd Asian Project Market Announced
The 22nd Asian Project Market (APM), the largest investment and
co-production market in Asia, successfully closed with the APM Award Ceremony,
held at Paradise Hotel Busan on October 8th. A total of 8 projects
received awards out of 29 creative and original projects, ranging from
commercial to low-budget amateur films, with the potential to be completed into
films.
As well as numerous advanced meeting reservations, a great number of the
on-site meetings were made. During the APM period, a record number of 796
meetings were successfully held between project participants and key industry
players, firmly establishing itself as the largest co-production market in
Asia.
This year’s award-winning films are from young Asian directors with high
quality from diverse countries including Korea. Also, new projects by female
directors representing their countries such as Boo Jiyoung from Korean and
Antoinette Jadaone from the Philippines won the award.
[Asian Project Market
2019 Award Winners]
(*Project / Director / Producer(s) / Country)
[Busan
Award] Topography of Solitude / NAKAI Noemie / WATANABE Satch / Japan
Supported by Busan Metropolitan City, the Busan Award is awarded to Topography of Solitude,
receiving 15,000 USD for project funding.
[MAS Award] The Courier Always Knocks Twice / HU Jia / Daniel YU / China
Committing 20,000 USD, the MAS Award is awarded to Hu Jia of The Courier Always Knocks Twice.
[CJ Entertainment Award] Boldstar / Antoinette JADAONE / Bianca BALBUENA, Dan VILLEGAS / Philippines
Awarded to an international project from the official APM line-up, the CJ
Entertainment Award is awarded to Boldstar
by Antoinette Jadaone (Philippines)
[LOTTE Award] About Dauther / BOO Jiyoung / JE Jeongju / Korea
Committing to a Korean project from the official APM line-up, LOTTE Award is
awarded to director Boo Jiyoung’s About
Daughter.
[KOCCA Award] Winter Worm, Summer Grass / KANG Sang-woo / HAN Sunhee / Korea
Korea Creative Content Agency selected Winter
Worm, Summer Grass among Korean projects from the official APM list
with 10 million KRW.
[ArteKino Award] Mother Tongue / Zhannat ALSHANOVA / Julia KIM / Kazakhstan
Arte France selects a project from official APM projects and underwrites with
6,000 Euros. The completed film will screen in ArteKino Festival, an online
film festival.
[Sørfond Award] Skin of Youth / Ash MAYFAIR / TRAN Thi Bich Ngoc / Vietnam
The winner of Sørfond Award is invited to Sørfond Pitching Forum in Oslo,
Norway.
[Moneff Award] The Child / KANG Donghun / Jung Youn / Korea
Moneff selects a project from official APM projects and provides 20,000 USD
worth of editing or VFX service.
The 24th Busan
International Film Festival will be held from Thursday, Oct 3 to Saturday, Oct
12
The 22nd Asian Project Market will be held from Oct 6 to Oct 8, 2019
Asian Film Market 2019
will be held from October 5 to October 8, 2019