From London to Kazakhstan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Australia and Hawaii, and a few other stops inbetween, NETPAC marked International Women’s Day with a screening of the Iranian debut feature Orange Days by Arash Lahooti.
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The 1st Netpac Film Week was held Nov 5-8, 2019 at the Beijing Film Academy (BFA). Organised by veteran filmmaker Prof Xie Fei and film researcher, Wang Yao, the event was a first step to introduce the work of NETPAC in promoting the cinemas of Asia.
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The victory of Parasite by Bong Joon-ho, at the 92nd Academy Awards (aka the Oscars), is a clear sign of global change.
Still from Parasite by Bong Joon-ho
It signals that this award will no longer be only American. This is also recognition of the existence of other cinemas, especially the Asian cinema in Hollywood. Parasite was acknowledged as the best film and won three other awards – for best director, best screenwriter and best international feature.
The history of cinema is being written on our eyes! For the first time, the most prestigious cinema awards were given to one film - the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film festival, the Best Asian film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Oscars. For the first time, we see such unanimous acclaim of one film. Can we consider it as a real victory for Asian cinema? Yes surely, and Korean cinema that began its journey to victory in the beginning of 1980s has successfully arrived. Through this film, we understand that the world has become truly global, as are all the problems highlighted in it.
- by Gulnara Abikeyeva
Netpac Board Member, Film Critic and Academic, Kazakhstan
From this year, we are inviting films for international competition section. Our competition program is looking for creative, innovative, non-fiction films on human rights issue with a maximum length of 60 minutes. Films completed after December 31, 2016 are eligible for international competition.
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I am happy to announce that Ashley Ratnavibhushana and Philip Cheah will take over as Joint Presidents of Netpac.
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I met Shaoyi in May, 1999 when he was a USC student and hired him to assist me in starting an Asia Pacific Media Center (APMC) at USC’s Annenberg Center for Communication. Help, he did, and continued after APMC morphed into Asia Pacific Films, a company that streamed curated films from Asia and the Pacific Islands to educational institutions.
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Born in 1961, Prof. SUN Shaoyi did a Masters and a Ph.D from the University of Southern California (USC). He was Professor of Film and Media Studies at Shanghai Theater Academy (STA), taught Chinese film and literature at USC, University of California at Irvine, National Chung Hsing University (Taiwan), Shanghai University and New York University in Shanghai.
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Jocelyne Saab, widely considered one of the most important contemporary Arab filmmakers, passed away after a brave and difficult battle with cancer on 7 January. Although death had long been hovering, many of us in contact only through texting or phoning, were taken by surprise, as the usual season's greetings had been exchanged with no hint that this beloved member of our film community would leave us within a week.
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Malini Fonseka is unquestionably the greatest living film actress in Sri Lanka. Over the past half a century she has succeeded in exercising a profound and far-reaching influence on the cinematic imagination of the country. There is no doubt that she has left an indelible mark on the history of Sri Lankan cinema.
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Recently, two books have been written by NETPAC members. One is on Pakistani Cinema and other on Bangladeshi Cinema.
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Congratulations Bong Joon Ho
Congratulations to Bong Joon-ho
The victory of Parasite by Bong Joon-ho, at the 92nd Academy Awards (aka the Oscars), is a clear sign of global change.
The history of cinema is being written on our eyes! For the first time, the most prestigious cinema awards were given to one film - the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film festival, the Best Asian film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Oscars. For the first time, we see such unanimous acclaim of one film.
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