Matriarch of Korean acting, Lee Yeong-Ian, star of film and television, made her feature film debut in 1995 in the award-winning feature A Petal, before starring in the Box Office smash hit and internationally award-winning drama Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004). Adept in many genres, Lee then featured in the romantic comedies Love Exposure (1997) and Romantic Debtors (2010), followed by the highest grossing Korean melodrama of all time, A Werewolf Boy (2012), with more than four million admits in Korea alone. Her most recent roles are in the acclaimed drama Han Gong-ju and End of Winter, winner of the New Currents Award at the 2014 Busan International Film Festival.
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.
