The actress-turned-director will receive the FIAPF award for her achievement in films in the Asia Pacific region.
Nandita Das to receive FIAPF award at 12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Brisbane - 22 Nov 2018 17:00 IST
IANS
Indian actress-filmmaker Nandita Das will be honoured with the FIAPF Award at the 12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) on 29 November.
Das will receive the FIAPF award by the International Federation of Film Producers' Associations for achievement in films in the Asia Pacific region, reports Variety.com.
She is known for her acting in the controversial film Fire (1996) and Earth (1999) and later in Between The Lines (2014), about gender inequality in middle class India. Her first film as director Firaaq appeared in 2008.
Her second feature as a director, Manto (2018) premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival this year and has been picked up by film festivals in Sydney, Toronto and Busan. Its leading actor Nawazuddin Siddiqi is also nominated for a performance prize at the APSAs.
Manto review: This portrait of Manto is charming, engrossing, but not as provocative as his pen
"Nandita Das has made an extraordinary contribution to the cinema of Asia Pacific, both on-screen and off," said president of FIAPF, Luis Alberto Scalella.
"Her works as a director and as an actress met international recognition and her personal commitments in the public debate are reflected in the stories she chooses to bring to the screen," Scalella added.
Singaporean filmmaker Yeo Siew Hua is to receive the Young Cinema Award at the upcoming event.
Yeo's prize is awarded in recognition of his film A Land Imagined (2018), which won the Golden Leopard prize at Locarno earlier this year. The prize is open to directors making their first or second narrative feature films, and is awarded by APSA, Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (NETPAC) and the Griffith Film School.
The film's Japanese director of photography Hideho Urata is also nominated for an APSA cinematography prize. The APSA Academy previously sponsored Yeo through a year-long mentorship program.
Previous Young Cinema award winners were director-producer Ilgar Najaf for his film Pomegranate Orchard (Azerbaijan) in 2017, and director Mustafa Kara for Cold of Kalandar (Turkey, Hungary) in 2015.
