39th International Film Festival Rotterdam January 27 – February 7, 2010 Ben Russell’s LET EACH ONE GO WHERE HE MAY, Anocha Suwichakornpong’s MUNDANE HISTORY and Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio’s TO THE SEA have been selected in the VPRO Tiger Awards Competition 2010. The Tiger Awards Jury 2010 will include Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel, French actress Jeanne Balibar and Singapore International Film Festival director Philip Cheah. A further two jury members will be announced later. The 39...

APSA AND NETPAC ANNOUNCE DEVELOPMENT PRIZE FOR ASIA-PACIFIC FILMMAKERSThe Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) has announced a collaboration with the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) by forming the ‘APSA NETPAC Development Prize’, a US$5000 bursary to be awarded to an emerging filmmaker from Asia-Pacific.The announcement was made at the Brisbane International Film Festival’s (BIFF) Awards Ceremony on Sunday where the winners of BIFF’s jury prizes were announced.APSA Chairm...

The BAFF 2009 International Jury made up of Wong Tuck Cheong, board member of NETPAC; Naoko Ugigami, filmmaker; Adrià Monés, Teuve acquisitions manager and Philipp Engel, journalist and film critic, has decided to grant the BAFF 2009 Golden Durian Award, a 6,000 € prize courtesy of Casa Asia, to the South Korean feature film BREATHLESS, by Yang Ik-June.By this decision, the Jury wishes to reward this impressive and very physical study of domestic violence in the South Korean underworld, whic...

Fifteen films by first or second filmmakers competed in the VPRO Tiger Awards Competition 2008. The Jury consists of Mr. Royston Tan - Singapore filmmaker and film producer, Russian filmmaker, actress and film producer Ms. Renata Litvinova, Mr. Rieks Hadders - former Deputy Director of the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Ms. Tiziana Finzi, Deputy Director Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland, and Iranian filmmaker and film producer Mr. Jafar Panahi (jury president). Th...