The Griffith Film School (GFS), the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, Sun Foundation, and the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (NETPAC) are inviting submissions for the 9th Asia Pacific Screen Lab (APSLab), a developmental laboratory for early career feature filmmakers from across the Asia Pacific, who have typically made at least one feature film within the frame of their national cinema and are now ready for a larger international framework.

The program offers emerging feature filmmakers of the Asia Pacific a tailor-made, year-long immersive development opportunity to further their project, helping them make the move to working in a broader international framework.

Successful participants are matched carefully with a mentor who is a member of the prestigious Academy of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA).

The mentors, participants, and industry experts gather several times to workshop the selected projects. Previous projects include feature films A Land Imagined (2018) and Haifa Street (2019).

Successful projects will be announced as part of the 16^th Asia Pacific Screen Awards on Friday, November 3.