Lynn and James Leong have spent the last decade making documentaries across Asia. Passabe, their first, was a recipient of a grant from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund. Their second film, Aki Ra’s Boys, won two international awards and Homeless FC, their third, received the Grand Prize at the Chinese Documentary Festival. In 2012, they finished The Great North Korean Picture Show, which takes audiences on an unprecedented journey inside a film industry like no other. Lynn and James have also made numerous television documentaries, including Nowhere to Go, an investigative piece for Al Jazeera English, which won the First Prize at the 2013 Human Rights Press Awards.
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 present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
