All We Think about As Mild took residence prime honors on the 18th Asian Movie Awards (AFA), profitable the Greatest Movie prize.
Held on the Grand Theatre on the Xiqu Centre in Hong Kong, this yr’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 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 seek out the financing and the suitable collaborators, to maintain the imaginative and prescient intact, even distributing the film — the whole lot is a problem. However doing it with an exquisite crew makes the whole lot simpler.”
Japanese filmmaker Daihachi Yoshida gained Greatest Director for black-and-white absurdist comedy Teki Cometh.
Sean Lau gained Greatest Actor for his position in Papa, directed by Philip Yung.
Greatest Actress went to India’s Shahana Goswami from Santosh. Santosh director Sandhya Suri additionally picked up the Greatest 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 Greatest Supporting Actor award. Lee has featured in quite a few Tsai Ming-liang movies and likewise 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 Greatest Supporting Actress for her position in Taiwanese movie Yen and Ai-Lee directed and written by Tom Lin Shu-yu.
Happyend star Kurihara Hayato picked up the Greatest Newcomer award for his position within the drama movie helmed by Neo Sora.
Iranian filmmaker and author Mohammad Rasoulof gained Greatest Screenplay for The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
Korean horror movie Exhuma picked up awards for Greatest Visible Results and Greatest Costume Design.
Greatest Manufacturing Design honors went to Hong Kong field workplace hit Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In.
Greatest Sound went to long-time Taiwanese sound designer Tu Duu-Chih.
The night additionally noticed Japanese display legend Koji Yakusho receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award, whereas Korean actor Jang Dong-gun and Chinese language actress Tang Wei each obtained the Excellence in Asian Cinema Award.
Trying towards the brand new technology, Wu Kang-ren obtained the AFA Subsequent Technology Award and Japanese actress-songwriter-model Koki was offered with the Rising Star Award.
