She is the director of the blockbuster “Cease-Fire” and her latest film “Superstar” won the Best Actor Crystal Simorgh of the 27th Fajr Film Festival for Shahab Hosseini.
Chinese director, screenwriter, and producer Huang Jianxin will preside over the jury, which will announce winners during a ceremony at
Australian playwright and screenwriter David Williamson, Indian playwright, screenwriter and director Feroz Abbas Khan, and Korean writer/director Gina Kim are the other members of the jury.
Nominees for the nine categories of the APSA will be selected from 212 film entries coming from 43 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
In addition, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Atebbai is a member of a jury that will determine the winner of the APSA NETPAC Development Prize, which is presented by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) to an emerging filmmaker from among the APSA nominees.
Established by the Queensland State Government in 2007, the APSA is sponsored by CNN International, UNESCO, and FIAPF -- International Federation of Film Producers Associations.
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