Asian Pacific International Filmmaker & Awards (APIFA) announces its
nomination for Best Film. APIFA is an international film festival
based in Jakarta, Indonesia. This year, the festival has received
450 film from all around the world and has chose 4 of the best to
compete for the Best Film title.The list of nominations for Best
Film of APIFA:
Alison directed by Uga Carlini
Once There Was A Mountain directed by Yingling Gu
Prophecy directed by Zuri Rinpoche
The Ravens directed by Jennifer Perrott
This year, the Academy Award winner for Best Sound category, Ben
Osmo is involved in a short film directed by Jennifer Perrott,
The Ravens. Ben Osmo is known as the re-recording mixer for the
film that received second most nominated Oscar , Mad Max: Fury
Road.
The Ravens is a film from Australia that tells a story
about a kid name Ruby, who’s father suddenly came back from war. The
changing of his father’s behavior makes the family hard to
reconnect.
This film is competing with Uga Carlini, Alison. This film
portraits the journey of the victims of rape to start a new life
full of hope.
Once There Was A Mountain a short film directed by
Yingling Gupun is also on the list competing with a Prophecy,
a feature film directed by Zuri Rinpoche.
Besides the 4 films, there are 25 other films that have been
selected as Official Selection.
In 2015, Touch, the last film of producer and Hollywood actor
Phillip Seymour Hoffman received the title of Best Film and the
award was presented by the Ministry of Young people and Sports, Imam
Nahrowi in the awards night that was held in the Auditorium of The
Ministry. In that same year, Tears of Ghost a film directed
by the youngest female director in the world, Natasha Dematra is
launched for the first time before it travel to international film
festivals around the world.
This festival is being supported by People's Creative Council,
Cinema XXI, i-Hebat International Volunteers, Russian Culture
Centre, Care for Children Foundation, World Film Council. |