Toronto International Film Festival NETPAC Prize

Summary

The Toronto International Film Festival NETPAC Prize is an annual film award, presented by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema to honour the best film from the Asia-Pacific region screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. The award was presented for the first time in 2012.[1]

Winners edit

Year Film Director(s) Ref
2012 The Land of Hope Sion Sono [1]
2013 Qissa Anup Singh [2]
2014 Margarita, with a Straw Shonali Bose [3]
2015 The Whispering Star Sion Sono [4]
2016 In Between Maysaloun Hamoud [5]
2017 The Great Buddha+ Huang Hsin-Yao [6]
2018 The Third Wife Ash Mayfair [7]
The Crossing Bai Xue
2019 1982 Oualid Mouaness [8]
2020 Gaza mon amour Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser [9]
2021 Costa Brava, Lebanon Mounia Akl [10]
2022 Sweet As Jub Clerc [11]
2023 A Match (Sthal) Jayant Digambar Somalkar [12]
Mimang Kim Taeyang

References edit

  1. ^ a b Peter Howell, "Silver Linings Playbook writes surprise TIFF ending". Toronto Star, September 17, 2012.
  2. ^ "TIFF 2013: 12 Years a Slave wins film fest’s top prize". Toronto Star, September 15, 2013.
  3. ^ "'Margarita, with a Straw' wins NETPAC award at TIFF". Deccan Chronicle. September 14, 2014.
  4. ^ "'Room' reçoit le prix du public". Le Monde, September 21, 2015.
  5. ^ Chris Knight, "And the winner is ...; La La Land takes bellwether award". National Post, September 19, 2016.
  6. ^ Jeremy Kay (September 17, 2017). "'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' wins Toronto audience award". Screen Daily.
  7. ^ Jessica Wong, "Green Book, starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen, wins TIFF People's Choice prize". CBC News, September 16, 2018.
  8. ^ Hipes, Patrick (September 12, 2019). "Toronto Film Festival Jury Winners: 'Martin Eden', 'Murmur', 'How To Build A Girl'". Deadline Hollywood.
  9. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Toronto: Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Wins Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter, September 20, 2020.
  10. ^ Bruce Haring, "‘Anatolian Leopard’ And ‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’ Are The Big TIFF Award Winners". Deadline Hollywood, September 18, 2021.
  11. ^ Christian Zilko, "‘The Fabelmans’ Wins TIFF 2022 People’s Choice Award". IndieWire, September 18, 2022.
  12. ^ Steve Pond, "‘American Fiction’ Wins Toronto Film Festival’s Audience Award". TheWrap, September 17, 2023.