Cultural Diversity Award, 2017
Dede
Winner, Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO, 2017 Set in 1992 amid the remote Ushguli community of Georgia’s Svaneti province in the country’s…
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Conrad Alleblas focuses on his sports career in speed skating and cycling until 1994. During this period he is selected for the Dutch National Junior Team in speed skating. As a member of Cycling Team C.S. Dammarie-lès-Lys Conrad takes part in international cycling races in France. In the speed skating season of 1995/1996 Conrad becomes the manager-trainer of the speed skating team of Olympic Champion Bart Veldkamp. Mid 1996 Bart and Conrad present the first ever international speed skating team. Afterwards Conrad takes up the position as General Manager of Bart Veldkamp Sport & Business Consultancy, a sports agency for management, consultancy and events. Conrad continues these activities in 2004 in his own company World of Sport. In the years after he takes up managerial positions with Right To Play Netherlands (Director, 2004-2008), Vereniging Sport Utrecht (Director, 2009-2014), Witsenburg Natural Products (Operational Director, 2014-2015) and Meer dan Werk (Operational Director, from 2016). In 2012 Conrad co-founds JaJa Film Productions and produced Women with a Mission (2016), Hussain & Hassan (2016), 4×1 (2017) and APSA-nominated Dede (2017).
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.