Special Guests Attending
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy welcomes its International Jury members, nominees and guests from across the globe to the Gold Coast for the 17th Asia Pacific Screen Awards and 6th Asia Pacific Screen Forum. The prestigious international film events honours the cinematic excellence of 78 countries and areas of the Asia Pacific and films that best reflect their cultural origins and the diversity of the vast region.
Film industry guests from Australia, Cambodia, Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, People’s Republic of China, Singapore, Thailand, Türkiye, and the USA are confirmed to participate in the 6th Asia Pacific Screen Forum, to be held from 27 to 30 November.
Australian actress, writer and comedian Nina Oyama (Deadloch, Utopia) is set to host the Gala Awards Ceremony, on the evening of Saturday 30 November in the elegant Diamond Ballroom of The Langham, Gold Coast, on the traditional land of the Kombumerri families of the Yugambeh language region.
Land is the central theme of APSA activities in 2024, serving as a powerful lens through which we can explore the relationship between communities, cultures, and the environment. It is a topic deeply intertwined with identity, sovereignty, and the stories we tell through film.
The 17th Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Forum will bring together guests and nominees from across the Asia Pacific and beyond, including:
- Jack Thompson, President of the APSA Academy, AM PhD
- Chris Pang (Crazy Rich Asians), Australian actor, APSA International Jury
- Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Fun Bar Karaoke, Monrak Transistor, Invisible Waves), Thai filmmaker & President of APSA International Jury
- Kerry Warkia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand producer, APSA International Jury
- Park Kiyong, Korean filmmaker, educator and policymaker, APSA International Jury
- Sabrina Baracetti, President of Italy’s Udine Far East Film Festival, Chair of APSA Youth Animation Documentary International Jury
- Jillian Nguyen (White Fever, Loveland, Scarygirl), Australian actor, APSA Youth Animation Documentary International Jury
- Cliff Curtis (Avatar films), New Zealand actor & producer, APSA Academy Member and President of Top 51 World Filmmakers Club
- Yanqiu Qian (People’s Republic of China), film director and producer, Top 51 World Filmmakers Club
- David Wenham (The Lord of the Rings films), Australian actor, APSA Academy Member
- Tracey Vieira, Chair of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards
- Nina Oyama (Deadloch, Utopia), Australian actor, writer and comedian, APSA host
- Belinda Lui, President and Managing Director of the Motion Picture Association, Asia Pacific
- Stephen Jenner, Vice President Communications, Motion Picture Association, Asia Pacific
- Jacqui Feeney, CEO of Screen Queensland
- Gina Black, Screen Industry Advisor, Certified Film Commissioner (AFCI), Gold Coast City Council
- Neo Sora (United States of America, Japan), writer/director of Best Film and Best Screenplay nominee Happyend, winner of APSA Young Cinema Award
- Aiko Masubuchi (United States of America, Japan), producer of Happyend, world premiere Venice
- Nikita Parikh (India), associate producer of APSA Best Film nominee All We Imagine as Light, world premiere Cannes
- Robert Connolly, Australian director and producer of Best Youth Film nominee Magic Beach
- Liz Kearney, Australian producer of nominated films Magic Beach and Memoir of a Snail
- Data Chachua (Panopticon), Georgian actor & APSA Best New Performer winner
- Selman Nacar (Türkiye), nominated writer/director of Hesitation Wound, world premiere Venice
- Madina Akylbekova (Kazakhstan), Best Performance nominee from Madina, world premiere Tokyo
- Rithea Phichith (Cambodia), assistant director of Best Director nominee Rithy Panh’s Meeting with Pol Pot, world premiere Cannes
- Weijie Lai (Singapore), producer of Mongrel and co-producer of Viet and Nam, both world premiere Cannes
- Min Bahadur Bham (Nepal), writer/director of Berlinale competition film Shambhala & winner of APSA Cultural Diversity Award
- Xiaoxuan Jiang (People’s Republic of China), writer/director of Best Film nominee To Kill a Mongolian Horse, world premiere Venice
- Zhulin Mo (People’s Republic of China), producer of Best Film nominee To Kill a Mongolian Horse
- Antoinette Jadaone (Philippines), writer/director of Best Youth Film nominee Sunshine, world premiere Toronto
- Geo Lomuntad (Philippines), producer of Best Youth Film nominee Sunshine & Best Animated Film nominee The Missing
- Carl Joseph Papa (Philippines), writer/director of Best Animated Film nominee The Missing
- Joseph Anthony Brillantes (Philippines), animator of nominated animation The Missing
- Aekaphong Saransate (Thailand), co-director of nominated documentary Breaking the Cycle
- Keiichi Kondo (Japan), producer of nominated animation Ghost Cat Anzu, premiere Cannes
- Venice De Castro Atienza (Philippines), producer of nominated documentary XiXi
- Khadim Dai, executive producer of nominated documentary Kamay
- Donsaron Kovitvanitcha, World Film Festival Bangkok