Celebrated Bangladeshi film director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki has been awarded with a grant of $100,000 for his next directorial venture “No Land’s Man”, a dark satirical drama about religious persecution.
The “No Land’s Man” was also named as the best project at the Film Bazaar co-production market in Goa, India last month.
On Thursday, the The MPA APSA Academy Film Fund announced the grants of US$25,000 for this year at the 8th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards ceremony in Brisbane, Australia.
The prize winners were selected by Australian distributor Andrew Pike, China’s Zoe Chen of Ruddy Morgan Organization (China) and Sheila Timothy (Indonesia), producer and president of the Association of Indonesian Film Producers (APROFI).
Iran’s imprisoned director Jafar Panahi was also in among the recipients of the award.
Panahi won the award for his project “Flower” (Goul”). This films is about a man who needs to kill his disabled son to bring peace to a family. Jafar Panahi’s son Panar Panahi will dirct the film.
Meanwhile, Israel’s Dror Moreh won for “Corridors of Power,” a confronting documentary examination of how the world’s political leaders have responded to reports of mass killings and genocide in recent decades.
Danish film-maker Signe Byrge Sorensen (“The Act of Killing”) also won for her upcoming documentary “On Screen Off Record” which charts the citizen journalist movement in Syria.