40 films to enter Asia-Pacific festival
40 films to enter Asia-Pacific festival
JAKARTA (JP): Organizers of the forthcoming 40th Asia-Pacific
Film Festival announced that 30 movies and 10 documentary films
from 13 Asia-Pacific countries will participate in the festival
to be held here from July 23 to 26.
Turino Junaidy, head of the organizing committee, said that
the organizers have received titles from Hong Kong, Korea,
Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, New Zealand and Indonesia, all
of which will be submitted for competition.
Australia, which earlier said it would send three entries, has
not yet given their film titles, Junaidy said.
He said all the films must first pass the local film
censorship board.
The films will be presented before the jury board between July
11 to 21, he said, adding that the nominations in 13 categories
will be announced on July 23.
The films in the competition will be shown to the public from
July 23 to 25 at Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) art center in Cikini,
said Johan Tjasmadi, who was appointed this week to chair the
National Film Advisory Board.
Jurors
The film jurors are former Indonesian information minister
Budiharjo, who will act as chairman and member of the panel, film
director Amy Priyono and actress Christine Hakim, both from
Indonesia, film director and actor Panchacharam Nalliaa of
Malaysia, film observer and reporter Jane Freebury of Australia,
film director Yooning Lee of Taiwan and film director Tomio
Kuriyama of Japan.
Apart from the official films, Junaidy said, a film exchange
forum for non-competing films will be also organized where the 14
participating countries can sell and buy films, including films
for television.
"Initially, we wanted to enhance the buying and selling of
films produced in Asia-Pacific countries. In the future, we hope
to extend this exchange to countries outside the region," Junaidy
said.
Other countries taking part in the festival, but not in the
competition, are India, Kuwait, Singapore, Vietnam and the
Philippines.
A series of seminars on ways of enhancing the region's film
industries will also be held. Issues to be discussed will include
the co-production and marketing of member-country films and the
financing of jointly produced films.
Festival delegations are scheduled to pay a courtesy call on
President Soeharto on July 24.
A special trophy will be presented to 88-year-old Sir Run Run
Shaw, a Hong Kong film mogul who is one of founders of the
Federation of Motion Picture Producers Association, for his
loyalty to the film industry. (als)