Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema
The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema is a worldwide organization of 29 member countries. It was created as the result of a conference on Asian cinema organized by Cinemaya, the Asian Film Quarterly, in New Delhi in 1990 at the instance and with the support of UNESCO, Paris.
Headquartered in Singapore, the NETPAC is a pan-Asian film cultural organization involving critics, filmmakers, festival organizers and curators, distributors and exhibitors, as well as film educators. It is considered a leading authority on Asian cinema. Since 1990, it has programmed Asian sections of international film festivals, introduced filmmakers from Asia to the world, brought out a compendium of the existing film infrastructure in different Asian countries, organized seminars and conferences and instituted an award for the Best Asian Film at festivals like Singapore, Busan, Jeonju, Kerala, Kazakhstan and Osian's Cinefan among those in Asia; Berlin, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Rotterdam, Vesoul and others in Europe; at Brisbane in Australia; Hawaii in the US; Antalya in Turkey and Black Nights in Estonia.
The NETPAC Award is given at select international film festivals to promote Asian cinema by spotlighting exceptional films and discovering new talents. Among filmmakers who have won this award more than twice are Sri Lanka's Prasanna Vithanage ; Kazakhstan's Adilkhan Yerzhanov ; China's Wang Xiaoshuai and Hao Jie ; the Philippines' Lav Diaz and Brillante Mendoza ; Malaysia's Ho Yuhang ; and South Korea's Kim Ki-duk.
NETPAC Award winners
1993
- Singapore International Film Festival
- * Winner ''The Peach Blossom Land''
1994
- Berlin International Film Festival
- * Winner All Under the Moon
- * Special Mention Shackles
- Singapore International Film Festival
- * Winner ''The Servile''
1995
- Berlin International Film Festival
- * Winner Undo
- * Winner Elephant Song
- International Film Festival Rotterdam
- * Winner The Servile
- Singapore International Film Festival
- * Winner A Borrowed Life
- * Special Mention ''Mee Pok Man''
1996
- Berlin International Film Festival
- * Winner ...And the Moon Dances
- * Special Mention Heaven-6-Box
- Busan International Film Festival
- * Winner Three Friends
- International Film Festival Rotterdam
- * Winner Heartbreak Island
- * Winner Nostalgia for Home Country
- Singapore International Film Festival
- * Winner Good Men, Good Women
- * Special Mention ''It's a Long Way to the Sea''
1997
- Amiens International Film Festival
- * Winner Somersault in a Coffin
- Berlin International Film Festival
- * Winner Focus
- Busan International Film Festival
- * Winner Bad Movie
- International Film Festival Rotterdam
- * Winner 2 Duo
- Singapore International Film Festival
- * Winner 12 Storeys
- * Special Mention ''The Long Journey''
1998
- Amiens International Film Festival
- * Winner Walls Within
- Berlin International Film Festival
- * Winner The Pickpocket
- Busan International Film Festival
- * Winner The Power of Kangwon Province
- * Special Mention A Killing Story
- International Film Festival Rotterdam
- * Winner Dance of the Wind
- * Special Mention Green Fish
- Singapore International Film Festival
- * Winner In the Navel of the Sea
- * Special Mention Hold You Tight
- Taiwan International Documentary Festival
- * Winner Out for Love...Be Back Shortly
- * Special Mention ''Nadya's Village''
1999
- Amiens International Film Festival
- * Winner Death On A Full Moon Day
- Berlin International Film Festival
- * Winner 2H
- * Winner Dil Se..
- Busan International Film Festival
- * Winner The Bird Who Stops in the Air
- * Special Mention The Uprising
- Cinemanila International Film Festival
- * Winner Birth of A Butterfly
- * Special Mention Fetch A Pail of Water
- Singapore International Film Festival
- * Winner Connection by Fate
- * Special Mention Beshkempir
- * Special Mention The Power of the Kangwon-du Province
- International Film Festival Rotterdam
- * Winner The Servant's Shirt
- Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
- * Winner Shiro the White
- * Special Mention Annyong-Kimchi
- * Special Mention ''I Love ''
2000
- Amiens International Film Festival
- * Winner The Orphan of Anyang
- Berlin International Film Festival
- * Winner The Lady of the House
- * Winner Nabbie's Love
- * Special Mention Making Sun-Dried Red Peppers
- Busan International Film Festival
- * Winner Chunhyang
- Dhaka International Film Festival
- * Winner Padadaya
- * Winner Saroja
- Hawaii International Film Festival
- * Winner Breaking the Silence
- * Special Mention Spinning Gasing
- International Film Festival Rotterdam
- * Winner Nang Nak
- * Winner Paper
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
- * Winner Yi Yi
- * Special Mention Peppermint Candy
- Singapore International Film Festival
- * Winner Darkness and Light
- * Winner So Close to Paradise
- Taiwan International Documentary Festival
- * Winner Alone
- * Special Mention Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi
- * Special Mention The Lost Kingdom
- Venice Film Festival
- * Winner Platform
- * Special Mention ''The Isle''
2001
- Berlin International Film Festival
- * Winner Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine
- * Special Mention Wharf of Widows
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- * Winner What Time Is It There?
- * Special Mention The Wrestlers
- Busan International Film Festival
- * Winner Take Care of My Cat
- * Special Mention Bad Guy
- * Special Mention Waikiki Brothers
- Cinefan Asian Film Festival
- * Winner Demons
- Cinemanila International Film Festival
- * Winner Batang West Side
- Fajr International Film Festival
- * Winner Going By
- Hawaii International Film Festival
- * Winner Devils on the Doorstep
- * Special Mention The Day Toshi was Born
- International Film Festival Rotterdam
- * Winner Daughters of the Sun
- * Special Mention The House of Guavas
- Jakarta International Film Festival
- * Winner – Short Film The Greatest Day Dreamer
- * Special Mention Wired
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
- * Winner Under the Skin of the City
- * Special Mention Firefly Dreams
- Singapore International Film Festival
- * Winner A Poet
- * Special Mention This is My Moon
- Venice Film Festival
- * Winner Secret Ballot
- * Winner Quitting
- Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
- * Winner My Migrant Soul
- * Special Mention Pansy & Ivy
- * Special Mention ''Mysterious Object at Noon''
2002
- Berlin International Film Festival
- * Winner Chen Mo and Meiting
- * Special Mention Fish and Elephant
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- * Winner Seafood
- * Special Mention Whispering Sands
- Busan International Film Festival
- * Winner Road Movie
- Cinefan Asian Film Festival
- * Winner Lan Yu
- Cinemanila International Film Festival
- * Winner Hollywood Hong Kong
- * Special Mention Harmful Insect
- Hawaii International Film Festival
- * Winner Eyes of a Beauty
- International Film Festival Rotterdam
- * Winner Wave
- * Special Mention Secret Ballot
- Locarno International Film Festival
- * Winner Mr. & Mrs. Iyer
- * Special Mention Our Times
- * Special Mention Obor Kalandia
- Singapore International Film Festival
- * Winner Eliana, Eliana
- * Special Mention I-San Special
- Taiwan International Documentary Festival
- * Winner ''Sky-blue Hometown''
2003
- Bangkok International Film Festival
- * Winner A Tale of a Naughty Girl
- Berlin International Film Festival
- * Winner Blessing Bell
- * Special Mention Bird-Man Tale
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- * Winner Oasis
- * Special Mention Letters in the Wind
- Busan International Film Festival
- * Winner Untold Scandal
- Cinefan Asian Film Festival
- * Winner Drifters
- Cinemanila International Film Festival
- * Winner Divine Intervention
- * Special Mention Dekada '70
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
- * Winner The Coast Guard
- Locarno International Film Festival
- * Winner Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
- Singapore International Film Festival
- * Winner 15 – The Movie
- * Special Mention Unknown Pleasures
- Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
- * Winner ''Cry Woman''