The Asia Pacific Screen Academy has given a taste of the program for November's Asia Pacific Screen Forum, while Netflix has moved to sponsor the event and the accompanying awards.
Seth Gabrielsson was one of 50 emerging filmmakers who ventured into the jungles of Yucatan, Mexico in August for an 11-day directors’ intensive led Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Here, he shares what he learnt from the Palme d'Or-winning director - or more correctly, didn't learn.
It’s not every day that you get to sail down the Amazon River in a canoe to do location scouting with a Palme d’Or winning director who is guiding you on your short film. But that was the recent experience of Kate Vinen, one of 50 directors selected for PlayLab Films’ 10-day development lab in Peru with Apichatpong Weerasethakul.