All We Think about As Mild took house prime honors on the 18th Asian Movie Awards (AFA), successful the Finest Movie prize.
Held on the Grand Theatre on the Xiqu Centre in Hong Kong, this 12 months’s AFA choice was overseen by legendary Hong Kong actor and AFA jury president Sammo Hung.
“It’s a particular factor to win this award in Hong Kong, which can also be a particular place for cinema,” stated All We Think about As Mild director Payal Kapadia. “Filmmaking is so difficult. Each movie that will get made is a prize. To search out the financing and the fitting collaborators, to maintain the imaginative and prescient intact, even distributing the film — the whole lot is a problem. However doing it with a beautiful crew makes the whole lot simpler.”
Japanese filmmaker Daihachi Yoshida gained Finest Director for black-and-white absurdist comedy Teki Cometh.
Sean Lau gained Finest Actor for his function in Papa, directed by Philip Yung.
Finest Actress went to India’s Shahana Goswami from Santosh. Santosh director Sandhya Suri additionally picked up the Finest New Director award for her work on the India-UK-France-Germany co-production.
Veteran Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng, who starred in Yeo Siew Hua’s Stranger Eyes, gained the Finest Supporting Actor award. Lee has featured in quite a few Tsai Ming-liang movies and in addition just lately appeared in Constance Tsang’s Blue Solar Palace. Accepting his award, Lee identified that his has three movies screening on the upcoming Hong Kong Worldwide Movie Pageant and sought audiences for his or her help for these movies there.
Yang Kuei-mei gained Finest Supporting Actress for her function in Taiwanese movie Yen and Ai-Lee directed and written by Tom Lin Shu-yu.
Happyend star Kurihara Hayato picked up the Finest Newcomer award for his function within the drama movie helmed by Neo Sora.
Iranian filmmaker and author Mohammad Rasoulof gained Finest Screenplay for The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
Korean horror movie Exhuma picked up awards for Finest Visible Results and Finest Costume Design.
Finest Manufacturing Design honors went to Hong Kong field workplace hit Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In.
Finest Sound went to long-time Taiwanese sound designer Tu Duu-Chih.
The night additionally noticed Japanese display screen legend Koji Yakusho receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award, whereas Korean actor Jang Dong-gun and Chinese language actress Tang Wei each acquired the Excellence in Asian Cinema Award.
Wanting towards the brand new era, Wu Kang-ren acquired the AFA Subsequent Technology Award and Japanese actress-songwriter-model Koki was introduced with the Rising Star Award.
