With over 26 years of experience in the entertainment industry, Mumbai born filmmaker Kabir Bhatia is a multiple award winning Director/Producer who has spent the last 20 years in Malaysia stamping his strong visual style on the Film Industry.
1992-2004
He cut his teeth at Utv-Mumbai where he began as a 24 year old Director/Writer/Executive Producer, honing his skills in TV and eventually working across all platforms.
He moved to Malaysia when the Utv Group set up headquarters in the Asean region and Produced and Directed numerous TV formats .
2005-2016
He was a Partner and Managing Director of Filmscape (Malaysia), a respected Production House for a period of ten years. Besides their core business of TV and Film Production, he ventured successfully into Commercials, PSAs and Political Campaigns.
Having directed and Produced numerous Ad’s, Travelogues, Fiction for Television and 10 Features across the Asian region including Indonesia and Singapore, Kabir...
1992-2004
He cut his teeth at Utv-Mumbai where he began as a 24 year old Director/Writer/Executive Producer, honing his skills in TV and eventually working across all platforms.
He moved to Malaysia when the Utv Group set up headquarters in the Asean region and Produced and Directed numerous TV formats .
2005-2016
He was a Partner and Managing Director of Filmscape (Malaysia), a respected Production House for a period of ten years. Besides their core business of TV and Film Production, he ventured successfully into Commercials, PSAs and Political Campaigns.
Having directed and Produced numerous Ad’s, Travelogues, Fiction for Television and 10 Features across the Asian region including Indonesia and Singapore, Kabir...
- 10/29/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Applications are now open for the third round of the Asia Pacific Screen Lab (Apsl), a development lab aimed at screenwriters, directors and producers from the Asia Pacific region..
The Apsl focuses on stories exploring an Asia Pacific identity to be developed into feature length films of fiction, documentary or animation..
The submission deadline is September 30, with the selected projects to be announced for the first time during the Busan International Film Festival in October 2016.
The year-long development incubator program for emerging filmmakers is an initiative of Griffith Film School (Gfs), the Asia Pacific Screen Academy and Netpac (Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema), in collaboration with the Sun Foundation and Temenggong Artists in Residence, Singapore..
At its core the Apsl is a vehicle for enabling film co-productions by early career feature filmmakers from across the Asia Pacific, typically those who have made at least one feature film...
The Apsl focuses on stories exploring an Asia Pacific identity to be developed into feature length films of fiction, documentary or animation..
The submission deadline is September 30, with the selected projects to be announced for the first time during the Busan International Film Festival in October 2016.
The year-long development incubator program for emerging filmmakers is an initiative of Griffith Film School (Gfs), the Asia Pacific Screen Academy and Netpac (Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema), in collaboration with the Sun Foundation and Temenggong Artists in Residence, Singapore..
At its core the Apsl is a vehicle for enabling film co-productions by early career feature filmmakers from across the Asia Pacific, typically those who have made at least one feature film...
- 6/27/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Australian director Stephen Page has won an Asia Pacific Screen Award .Special Mention for feature film Spear at a ceremony in Brisbane.
Spear tells a contemporary Indigenous story through movement and Dance..
The film follows young Indigenous man, Djali, as learns the ancient tradtions of becoming a man in a modern world.
Cemetery of Splendour, from Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul, won Best Feature Film.
Films from Thailand, Russian Federation, Turkey, People.s Republic of China, Japan, Palestine, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Australia received accolades at the event.
The awards recognise and promote cinematic excellence and cultural diversity of the world.s fastest-growing film region: comprising 70 countries and areas, 4.5 billion people, and responsible for half of the world.s film output. In 2015, 39 films from 22 Asia Pacific countries and areas received Apsa nominations.
The Apsa Unesco Award for outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through film was awarded...
Spear tells a contemporary Indigenous story through movement and Dance..
The film follows young Indigenous man, Djali, as learns the ancient tradtions of becoming a man in a modern world.
Cemetery of Splendour, from Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul, won Best Feature Film.
Films from Thailand, Russian Federation, Turkey, People.s Republic of China, Japan, Palestine, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Australia received accolades at the event.
The awards recognise and promote cinematic excellence and cultural diversity of the world.s fastest-growing film region: comprising 70 countries and areas, 4.5 billion people, and responsible for half of the world.s film output. In 2015, 39 films from 22 Asia Pacific countries and areas received Apsa nominations.
The Apsa Unesco Award for outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through film was awarded...
- 11/26/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Asia Pacific prizes also awarded to Hany Abu-Assad for The Idol, Alexey German Jr for Under Electric Clouds and cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing for The Assassin.Scroll down for full list of winners
Cemetery of Splendour, by Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul, has won best feature film at the 9th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) in Australia.
The Thai-language drama, which debuted at Cannes, centres on a middle-aged woman who experiences strange visions while tending a soldier with sleeping sickness.
The awards, announced at a ceremony at Brisbane’s City Hall, saw films honoured from Thailand, Russia, Turkey, China, Japan, Palestine, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Australia.
The Apsa Unesco Award for outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through film was awarded to Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad for The Idol, which debuted at Toronto.
Speaking from the set of his latest production, the director said of the award: “Thank you dear jury for this great...
Cemetery of Splendour, by Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul, has won best feature film at the 9th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) in Australia.
The Thai-language drama, which debuted at Cannes, centres on a middle-aged woman who experiences strange visions while tending a soldier with sleeping sickness.
The awards, announced at a ceremony at Brisbane’s City Hall, saw films honoured from Thailand, Russia, Turkey, China, Japan, Palestine, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Australia.
The Apsa Unesco Award for outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through film was awarded to Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad for The Idol, which debuted at Toronto.
Speaking from the set of his latest production, the director said of the award: “Thank you dear jury for this great...
- 11/26/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Stephen Page.s innovative debut Spear is one of five nominees for the Unesco award in the 9th Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Adapted from Page.s original work, Spear tells a contemporary Aboriginal story through movement and dance as it follows young Aboriginal man Djali as he journeys through his community to understand what it means to be a man with ancient traditions in a modern world.
The producer is John Harvey, co-produced with Page.s Bangarra Dance Theatre and supported by he Adelaide Film Festival.s Hive Fund. The film had its world premiere in the discovery program at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Determined by the Apsa international jury, the Unesco award recognises outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of the cultural diversity through the medium of film.
In previous years the prize-winner was selected from all Apsa-nominated films. For the first time this year, five films...
The producer is John Harvey, co-produced with Page.s Bangarra Dance Theatre and supported by he Adelaide Film Festival.s Hive Fund. The film had its world premiere in the discovery program at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Determined by the Apsa international jury, the Unesco award recognises outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of the cultural diversity through the medium of film.
In previous years the prize-winner was selected from all Apsa-nominated films. For the first time this year, five films...
- 10/5/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Biff co-founder and honorary director Kim Dong-ho has been appointed as president of the international jury for this year’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa).
Kim will be joined on the jury by award-winning Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki; director/writer/curator and Beijing Film Academy Professor, Zhang Xianmin; Malaysian writer-director U-Wei Bin Hajisaari; Russian writer-director Alexei Popogrebsky; and Iranian actress Negar Javaherian.
Attending a joint Apsa, Unesco, Mpa reception in Busan, Kim announced the nominations for the Apsa Unesco Award, presented annually for outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through the medium of film.
In previous years, all Apsa-nominated films were eligible for the award, while this year a shortlist of five films has been nominated.
The five nominated films are:
Miaoyan Zhang for A Corner Of Heaven (China, France) – produced by Miaoyan Zhang, Guillaume de Seille.
Ella Manzheeva for The Gulls (Russia) – produced by Elena Glikman, Yaroslav Zhivov...
Kim will be joined on the jury by award-winning Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki; director/writer/curator and Beijing Film Academy Professor, Zhang Xianmin; Malaysian writer-director U-Wei Bin Hajisaari; Russian writer-director Alexei Popogrebsky; and Iranian actress Negar Javaherian.
Attending a joint Apsa, Unesco, Mpa reception in Busan, Kim announced the nominations for the Apsa Unesco Award, presented annually for outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through the medium of film.
In previous years, all Apsa-nominated films were eligible for the award, while this year a shortlist of five films has been nominated.
The five nominated films are:
Miaoyan Zhang for A Corner Of Heaven (China, France) – produced by Miaoyan Zhang, Guillaume de Seille.
Ella Manzheeva for The Gulls (Russia) – produced by Elena Glikman, Yaroslav Zhivov...
- 10/4/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Hanyut (Malay) - Drifting off into peril, without any real way of getting back.The foregoing definition, which appears only after the final scene of the picture, perfectly evokes the tone of Hanyut/Almayer's Folly and emphasizes the omnipresent feeling of an inevitable doom that's hanging above all of the characters' heads throughout the whole time. Predetermined fate leads their lives onto a path of mischief, conflict, madness, betrayal and hatred. As in a Shakespearean tragedy, although not as brutal and with much lower body count, all the actors maneuver uncomfortably through rough terrains without being aware that most of their actions may have terrible consequences.Based on Joseph Conrad's rather unsuccessful novel, U-Wei Haji Saari's Hanyut/Almayer's Folly is the most expensive production in the history of Malaysian...
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- 11/11/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Tim Winton.s The Turning has been nominated for best feature film in the 7th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa).
In his first lead role in Ivan Sen.s Mystery Road, Aaron Pedersen scored a nomination for best performance by an actor.
Mandy Walker is in contention for the achievement in in cinematography gong for John Curran.s Tracks, the first Australian nomination in this category in Apsa.s history.
New Zealand film Shopping, produced by Aussies Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Warp Films, is in the running for best children.s feature.
Peter O.Brien plays the lead in Malaysian feature Almayer's Folly (Hanyut), whose writer/director U-Wei Bin Hajisaari is up for best screenplay.
Some 39 films from 21 Asia Pacific countries will compete in the awards which will be presented on December 12 in Brisbane.s City Hall.
Other nominees for best film are Asgha Farhadi.s The Past,...
In his first lead role in Ivan Sen.s Mystery Road, Aaron Pedersen scored a nomination for best performance by an actor.
Mandy Walker is in contention for the achievement in in cinematography gong for John Curran.s Tracks, the first Australian nomination in this category in Apsa.s history.
New Zealand film Shopping, produced by Aussies Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Warp Films, is in the running for best children.s feature.
Peter O.Brien plays the lead in Malaysian feature Almayer's Folly (Hanyut), whose writer/director U-Wei Bin Hajisaari is up for best screenplay.
Some 39 films from 21 Asia Pacific countries will compete in the awards which will be presented on December 12 in Brisbane.s City Hall.
Other nominees for best film are Asgha Farhadi.s The Past,...
- 11/11/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Palestine’s Omar and Bangladesh’s Television among best feature nominees in the upcoming Asia Pacific Screen Awards.Scoll down for full list of nominations
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s Television is one of six films in the running to win best feature at the 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs) - the first film from Bangladesh to ever be nominated.
Television directly deals with issues of modernity versus tradition in rural Bangladesh, making it a film well worth debating within the context of the APSAs, which celebrate both quality cinema and the cultural importance of film.
Television closed the Busan International Film Festival last year. If it wins Apsa’s highest accolade it will have impressed the jury more than Omar from Palestine; With You, Without You from Sri Lanka; Like Father, Like Son from Japan; The Turning;, an anthology film from Australia and The Past, directed by one of Apsa’s most high-profile regular contenders, Iranian...
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s Television is one of six films in the running to win best feature at the 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs) - the first film from Bangladesh to ever be nominated.
Television directly deals with issues of modernity versus tradition in rural Bangladesh, making it a film well worth debating within the context of the APSAs, which celebrate both quality cinema and the cultural importance of film.
Television closed the Busan International Film Festival last year. If it wins Apsa’s highest accolade it will have impressed the jury more than Omar from Palestine; With You, Without You from Sri Lanka; Like Father, Like Son from Japan; The Turning;, an anthology film from Australia and The Past, directed by one of Apsa’s most high-profile regular contenders, Iranian...
- 11/11/2013
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Actor-rapper Mos Def, director Catherine Hardwicke, Film Independent executive director Dawn Hudson, film editor Pamela Martin and actress-director Sarah Polley will serve as jurors for the U.S. dramatic film competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, which begins today in Park City and runs through Jan. 28.
The U.S. documentary competition jury consists of filmmaker Alan Berliner, film editor Lewis Erskine, photographer and docu director Lauren Greenfield, docu filmmaker Julia Reichert and producer-director Carlos Sandoval.
The jury for the world dramatic competition will be made up of editor-turned-director Carlos Bolado, director Lynne Ramsay and director U-Wei Bin Haji Saari.
For the world documentary competition, the jurors are writer-director-producer Raoul Peck, docu filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo and Elizabeth Weatherford, founding director of the Film and Video Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
The American and international shorts will be judged by director Jared Hess, film critic and festival director Daniela Michel and Mark Rosenberg, founder and artistic director of Rooftop Films.
The U.S. documentary competition jury consists of filmmaker Alan Berliner, film editor Lewis Erskine, photographer and docu director Lauren Greenfield, docu filmmaker Julia Reichert and producer-director Carlos Sandoval.
The jury for the world dramatic competition will be made up of editor-turned-director Carlos Bolado, director Lynne Ramsay and director U-Wei Bin Haji Saari.
For the world documentary competition, the jurors are writer-director-producer Raoul Peck, docu filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo and Elizabeth Weatherford, founding director of the Film and Video Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
The American and international shorts will be judged by director Jared Hess, film critic and festival director Daniela Michel and Mark Rosenberg, founder and artistic director of Rooftop Films.
- 1/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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