The Osaka Asian Film Festival (Oaff) 2024 has announced the results of each award on March 10, 2024. These are as follows:
Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 Award Winners
★ Grand Prix (Best Picture Award)
This award is given to the best film among the Competition films, as selected by the jury. The winner receives 500,000 yen. The Oaff 2024 Jury, comprised of Directors Dave Boyle, Angga Dwimas Sasongko, and CEO, Mimosa Films, Inc. Murata Atsuko, having viewed all 14 films in competition, decided as follows:
Winner | “City of Wind” | France, Mongolia. Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, Qatar | Director: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
Jury Comment:
Working within the confines of the coming of age genre, the Grand Prize winning film illuminates a world we had not seen before and tackles issues of spirituality and intergenerational conflict with a deft and confident hand. The film depicts the growth of the central character with sensitivity and features a revelatory performance at the center.
Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 Award Winners
★ Grand Prix (Best Picture Award)
This award is given to the best film among the Competition films, as selected by the jury. The winner receives 500,000 yen. The Oaff 2024 Jury, comprised of Directors Dave Boyle, Angga Dwimas Sasongko, and CEO, Mimosa Films, Inc. Murata Atsuko, having viewed all 14 films in competition, decided as follows:
Winner | “City of Wind” | France, Mongolia. Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, Qatar | Director: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
Jury Comment:
Working within the confines of the coming of age genre, the Grand Prize winning film illuminates a world we had not seen before and tackles issues of spirituality and intergenerational conflict with a deft and confident hand. The film depicts the growth of the central character with sensitivity and features a revelatory performance at the center.
- 3/12/2024
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Korean Action
Korean action drama “A Shop For Killers” has become the most viewed local original on Disney+ in the Asia Pacific region so far in 2024, the streamer has revealed.
Set in contemporary Korea, the eight-part series follows college student Jeong Jian who dives for cover in her childhood home after a series of highly skilled assassins come after her. Fighting to survive, Jian begins to remember invaluable lessons her uncle taught her before his apparent suicide, drawing on them to help her stay alive. Jian now has to uncover her uncle’s hidden past and figure out why so many people are desperate to gain access to her house and the extensive arsenal hidden inside.
The cast includes Lee Dongwook (“Guardian: The Lonely”) and Kim Hyejun (“Connect”). “A Shop For Killers” is based on the popular novel by Kang Jiyoung, written by Ji Hojin and Lee Kwon, and directed...
Korean action drama “A Shop For Killers” has become the most viewed local original on Disney+ in the Asia Pacific region so far in 2024, the streamer has revealed.
Set in contemporary Korea, the eight-part series follows college student Jeong Jian who dives for cover in her childhood home after a series of highly skilled assassins come after her. Fighting to survive, Jian begins to remember invaluable lessons her uncle taught her before his apparent suicide, drawing on them to help her stay alive. Jian now has to uncover her uncle’s hidden past and figure out why so many people are desperate to gain access to her house and the extensive arsenal hidden inside.
The cast includes Lee Dongwook (“Guardian: The Lonely”) and Kim Hyejun (“Connect”). “A Shop For Killers” is based on the popular novel by Kang Jiyoung, written by Ji Hojin and Lee Kwon, and directed...
- 3/12/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
It was a weird year for Busan in terms of selection, particularly because this time, there were no definite masterpieces particularly among the Korean and Japanese titles, who are usually the source of this kind of films. At the same time, though, the industry seems to gradually pick up once more after the Covid impact, as one could find a really significant number of good and very good films in the selection, highlighting the progress of Asian cinema this year. Furthermore, the choice to focus on Indonesian cinema was an ideal one, considering that the future of Asian movies seems to lie, currently, somewhere among the Asean countries, particularly story-wise. Furthermore, the South Asian entries also were particularly strong this year, cementing what we just mentioned. Lastly, and in a trend that seems to be picking up during the last few years, the short selection seems even more interesting on occasion that the features…...
- 10/22/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Considering how Asian family dramas screening in festivals around the world tend to be rather heavy in their presentation, it is always a pleasure to watch films such as “Salli”, a Taiwanese-French co-production, which takes a lighter, easier-to-watch approach towards the concept, headed by an impressive performance by its main lead, Esther Liu.
Salli is screening at Busan International Film Festival
Hui-Jun is a very beautiful 38-old woman, who is somewhat stuck in her chicken farm in a rural village in Taiwan, which she runs along with her younger brother, who is about to get married to his posh girlfriend. As the story begins, Xin-Ru, her niece, who has been living in Shanghai with her parents, comes to spend time with her aunt, with their relationship actually being more like a mother-daughter one. When her relatives claim that Hui-Jun, being unmarried, should not attend her brother’s wedding reception, she...
Salli is screening at Busan International Film Festival
Hui-Jun is a very beautiful 38-old woman, who is somewhat stuck in her chicken farm in a rural village in Taiwan, which she runs along with her younger brother, who is about to get married to his posh girlfriend. As the story begins, Xin-Ru, her niece, who has been living in Shanghai with her parents, comes to spend time with her aunt, with their relationship actually being more like a mother-daughter one. When her relatives claim that Hui-Jun, being unmarried, should not attend her brother’s wedding reception, she...
- 10/14/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Berlin-based sales agent ArtHood Entertainment has picked up world rights, outside of much of East Asia, to “Salli,” a film which has its world premiere this week in the Busan International Film Festival’s A Window on Asian Cinema program.
The Mandarin-, Taiwanese-, English- and French-language film follows a lonely middle-aged chicken farmer Hui-Chun, who doesn’t speak English and develops a romantic relationship through an app with a French man who calls himself Martin. In the online world, Hui-Chun is Salli. Despite everyone calling it a romance scam, she wants to prove that love indeed exists.
The Taiwan-France film marks the feature debut of Taipei-based filmmaker Lien Chien-Hung after several acclaimed shorts and a TV movie.
“The reason why I want to make ‘Salli’ is because of very common news in Taiwan. Many men and women are deceived by love on the internet,” Lien told Variety earlier this year.
The Mandarin-, Taiwanese-, English- and French-language film follows a lonely middle-aged chicken farmer Hui-Chun, who doesn’t speak English and develops a romantic relationship through an app with a French man who calls himself Martin. In the online world, Hui-Chun is Salli. Despite everyone calling it a romance scam, she wants to prove that love indeed exists.
The Taiwan-France film marks the feature debut of Taipei-based filmmaker Lien Chien-Hung after several acclaimed shorts and a TV movie.
“The reason why I want to make ‘Salli’ is because of very common news in Taiwan. Many men and women are deceived by love on the internet,” Lien told Variety earlier this year.
- 10/7/2023
- by Patrick Frater and Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The drama about two sisters is from first-time feature director Sasha Chuk.
Hong Kong project Fly Me To The Moon won five awards at the closing of this year’s Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum.
The film will mark the feature directorial debut of Sasha Chuk and is produced by Hong Kong filmmaker Stanley Kwan, whose films as a director include Venice 2005 title Everlasting Regret, Cannes 2001 film Lan Yu and Berlin competition titles Center Stage, The Island Tales, Hold You Tight and Red Rose White Rose.
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Fly Me To The Moon was among...
Hong Kong project Fly Me To The Moon won five awards at the closing of this year’s Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum.
The film will mark the feature directorial debut of Sasha Chuk and is produced by Hong Kong filmmaker Stanley Kwan, whose films as a director include Venice 2005 title Everlasting Regret, Cannes 2001 film Lan Yu and Berlin competition titles Center Stage, The Island Tales, Hold You Tight and Red Rose White Rose.
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Fly Me To The Moon was among...
- 3/16/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Young Hong Kong filmmaker Sasha Chuk emerges as the biggest winner as the three-day 21st Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF21) successfully concluded today with the announcement of the recipients of 20 cash and in-kind awards worth more than US$170,000.
Chuk received [an unprecedented] four awards – the Heaven Pictures Young Director Award, the Ccg Grand Award, the mm2 Award, and the Wip Award – for her Stanley Kwan-produced Fly Me to the Moon. The work-in-progress is also one of the five projects selected for this year's Haf Goes To Cannes initiative.
Taiwan's Lien Chien-Hung and Mainland China's Guan Tian also excelled at HAF21, each taking home three awards for Salli and The Poison Cat, respectively.
Returning to its regular March dates with the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (Filmart), HAF21 was the first physical, in-person event since 2019 after three consecutive online editions. The event attracted 30% more accredited participants than the last edition.
Chuk received [an unprecedented] four awards – the Heaven Pictures Young Director Award, the Ccg Grand Award, the mm2 Award, and the Wip Award – for her Stanley Kwan-produced Fly Me to the Moon. The work-in-progress is also one of the five projects selected for this year's Haf Goes To Cannes initiative.
Taiwan's Lien Chien-Hung and Mainland China's Guan Tian also excelled at HAF21, each taking home three awards for Salli and The Poison Cat, respectively.
Returning to its regular March dates with the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (Filmart), HAF21 was the first physical, in-person event since 2019 after three consecutive online editions. The event attracted 30% more accredited participants than the last edition.
- 3/15/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
“Fly Me to the Moon,” a work-in-progress from Hong Kong, dominated the prizes presented at the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum project market. It collected five awards and was invited to continue its journey at Cannes in May.
Directed by first-time feature maker Sasha Chuk and produced by the veteran Stanley Kwan, the film tells the tale of a pair of sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 1990s. They are faced with an identity crisis, poverty and their father’s drug addiction. It entered the market with $640,000 of its intended $705,000 production budget in place, and more than filled the gap with the prizes announced on Wednesday.
The Haf operated its 21st edition March 13-15 on the side lines of the FilMart rights market. It showcased 28 in-development projects and 15 works-in-progress, for which it arranged one-on-one meetings that were intended to facilitate co-financing, co-production and rights sales.
Another work-in-progress “Salli,...
Directed by first-time feature maker Sasha Chuk and produced by the veteran Stanley Kwan, the film tells the tale of a pair of sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 1990s. They are faced with an identity crisis, poverty and their father’s drug addiction. It entered the market with $640,000 of its intended $705,000 production budget in place, and more than filled the gap with the prizes announced on Wednesday.
The Haf operated its 21st edition March 13-15 on the side lines of the FilMart rights market. It showcased 28 in-development projects and 15 works-in-progress, for which it arranged one-on-one meetings that were intended to facilitate co-financing, co-production and rights sales.
Another work-in-progress “Salli,...
- 3/15/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Taiwan-France film “Salli” marks the feature debut of Taipei-based filmmaker Lien Chien-Hung after several acclaimed shorts and a TV movie.
“Salli,” which won the grand prize at the Chinese-language film project matching and co-production platform Golden Horse Film Project Promotion in 2019, is a work-in-progress selection at the Hong Kong — Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf). The Mandarin-, Taiwanese-, English- and French-language film follows a lonely middle-aged chicken farmer Hui-Chun, who doesn’t speak English and develops a romantic relationship through an app with a French man who calls himself Martin. In the online world, Hui-Chun is Salli. Despite everyone calling it a romance scam, she wants to prove that love indeed exists.
“The reason why I want to make ‘Salli’ is because of very common news in Taiwan. Many men and women are deceived by love on the internet,” Lien tells Variety. “As bystanders, we always laugh at why these people are so stupid.
“Salli,” which won the grand prize at the Chinese-language film project matching and co-production platform Golden Horse Film Project Promotion in 2019, is a work-in-progress selection at the Hong Kong — Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf). The Mandarin-, Taiwanese-, English- and French-language film follows a lonely middle-aged chicken farmer Hui-Chun, who doesn’t speak English and develops a romantic relationship through an app with a French man who calls himself Martin. In the online world, Hui-Chun is Salli. Despite everyone calling it a romance scam, she wants to prove that love indeed exists.
“The reason why I want to make ‘Salli’ is because of very common news in Taiwan. Many men and women are deceived by love on the internet,” Lien tells Variety. “As bystanders, we always laugh at why these people are so stupid.
- 3/14/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Hong Kong’s Haf adds 15 Wip projects ahead of first in-person edition since 2019.
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society has announced 15 work-in-progress projects, completing the full line-up of the 21st Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF21).
A total of 43 projects will be presented at Haf, including 28 in-development projects announced last month, which is set to run from March 13-15 alongside the 27th Hong Kong Film & TV Market (Filmart). It will mark the first in-person edition for both events since pre-Covid 2019.
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Emerging and established actors who lead the cast of the 15 Wip projects include Fish Liew,...
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society has announced 15 work-in-progress projects, completing the full line-up of the 21st Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF21).
A total of 43 projects will be presented at Haf, including 28 in-development projects announced last month, which is set to run from March 13-15 alongside the 27th Hong Kong Film & TV Market (Filmart). It will mark the first in-person edition for both events since pre-Covid 2019.
Scroll down for full list of projects
Emerging and established actors who lead the cast of the 15 Wip projects include Fish Liew,...
- 2/8/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
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