Xin Yukun, a graduate in cinematography from the Beijing Film Academy, worked on the screenplay for The Coffin in the Mountain (2014), his debut feature film as writer/director, for three years. As director he won the Akai Award for Best New Director at the 71st Venice Film Festival and was nominated for the 2014 Golden Horse Award for Best New Director. Yuanliang Feng is a Chinese screenwriter. Born in Jinan, China, he is a film graduate of the Shandong College of Art. The Coffin in the Mountain won the Grand Prix at the 2014 Warsaw Film Festival, Best Film at the Xining First Film Festival and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 2014 Golden Horse 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.
