The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. For Asian cinema, which has grown exponentially and won more awards than ever before, this period is marked by a sense of achievement and pride.
NETPAC has been actively engaged in this eventful journey: a NETPAC Award for the Best Asian Film has been established at major international film festivals; Cinemaya, the official journal of NETPAC, has promoted Asian cinema far and wide; dedicated Asian Film Festivals have sprung up all over the world - Fukuoka in Japan, 3rd Eye Asian Film Festival in Mumbai, Vesoul in France, Barcelona in Spain...read more
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Netpac at 20
NETPAC@20 In the twenty years since it was founded, NETPAC has become established as the leading platform for the discovery and promotion of Asian cinema. The genesis of NETPAC in 1990 had coincided with the renaissance of Asian cinema. NETPAC gave early expression to the need to acknowledge and recognize the emergence of new cinematic talent among Asians. It took under its wing a quarterly publication, Cinemaya,which provided a forum for mostly Asian critics, writers and scholars to document and evaluate Asian films and subsequently add them to the Asian cinema canon... read more
