 (Jakarta,
06/15) A motel. A hiding place, yet you can�t hide your dark
secrets. Dawn and her daughter, Steph run away after Steph
attacked a man. Although they try to hide during day, Dawn opens
a relation with a cop, until he digs too deep about her dark
secrets.
Juries of the Asia Pacific International Filmmaker Festival
and Awards (APIFA) 2015 finally choose one best film from
hundreds of films submitted: the intriguing yet excellent
produced, Touch, directed by Christopher Houghton from
Australia. A series of finely produced films like Battalion
directed by Dmitry Meskhiev, Indigo Grey Chapter One: The
Passage directed by Sean Robinson, Kurokawa Wonderland directed
by Yasuhiro Tamura, Mouna Vizhiththuligal directed by
Ilango Ramanathan, My Cliff directed by Galia Albin, One Armed
Man directed by Tim Guinee, One Minute To Leave directed by
Brian Sounalath, The Island directed by C. Jay Shih, Tokko
Shigan directed by Kenshow Onodera, and Typisch Lang Lang
directed by Marc Pos, are also credited as the Winners of Asia
Pacific Platinum Awards.
APIFA conducted its opening ceremony at the Russian Cultural
Center, Jakarta, on the 4th June 2015. On that day, the festival
screened One Armed Man directed by Tim Guinee (USA). This film
is the last masterpiece from the legendary producer and actor
Academy Awards winner, Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote, Hunger
Games, Mission Impossible 3, Doubt, The Ides of March, etc).
APIFA awarded him with a special jury award for his contribution
for the society and in the film industry.
APIFA was first established to encourage newcomers and
students to explore their talents and give the best of their
efforts and passions for the beauty of art, the deliverance of
message/information, the variety of life, and for the film
industry itself through freedom to express their voices.
Some of the winners of the festival visit Jakarta during
festival season and stay for a couple of days in. During their
stay, they share their experiences in film making with more than
300 local filmmakers from 33 provinces in Indonesia. The
international filmmakers conference and festival is organized by
the Indonesian Council of Creative People who works together
with the Indonesian Ministry of Youth and Sports. The grand
Auditorium of the Ministry of Youth and Sports has also become
the place for the Award Day of the festival on the 9th June
2015. The event was inaugurated by the Indonesian Minister of
Youth and Sports, Imam Nahrawi, and was attended by the winning
international filmmakers, hundreds of local filmmakers,
celebrities, and notable guests from foreign countries.
This fruitful collaboration is also supported by the Russian
Cultural Center in Jakarta where some of the carefully
handpicked winning films were screened. (FR/Ln)
OVERALL WINNER 2015:
Touch, directed by Christopher Houghton
Asia Pacific Special Jury Award:
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Asia Pacific Platinum Awards:
Battalion (feature film) directed by Dmitry Meskhiev
INDIGO GREY Chapter One: The Passage (short film) directed by
Sean Robinson
Kurokawa Wonderland (short film) directed by Yasuhiro Tamura
Mouna Vizhiththuligal (Silent Tears) (short film) directed by
Ilango Ramanathan
My Cliff (short film) directed by Galia Albin
One Armed Man (short film) directed by Tim Guinee
One Minute To Leave (short film) directed by Brian Sounalath
The Island (short film) directed by C. Jay Shih
Tokko Shigan (short film) directed by Kenshow Onodera
Touch (feature film) directed by Christopher Houghton
Typisch Lang Lang (short film) directed by Marc Pos
Asia Pacific Golden Awards:
Agua Blanca (short film) directed by Alina Montero
A Fistful of Pebbles (short film) directed by Somchanrith Chap
Bibek (short film) directed by Saif Suman
Kung ang ulan ay gawa sa tsokolate (short film) directed by
Galileo Te
Nighthawks (short film) directed by Gianpaolo Lupori
Rainbow (rising star) directed by Marina Solovyova
Twin Lotus (short film/documentary) directed by Yucheng Zhao
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