'Goldfish' Wins Three Prizes at Busan Project Market — SkimNews
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- Aditya Ahmad's "Goldfish" won three APM prizes — the QCinema Special Award, Kongchak Studio Award, and VIPO Award — for a South Sulawesi-set story about a boy fleeing his father, produced by Muhammad Zaidy and Meiske Taurisia and also backed by the ACF Script Development Fund.
- Tribeny Rai's "A Chronicle of Minor Things" took the Sørfond Award and APM Busan Award, the latter recognizing a structure that quietly works in a social issue and themes the citation said could resonate with audiences outside India.
- Six additional projects collected APM prizes, including Reza Rahadian's family drama "Casparina" (CJ ENM Award), Kim Jinyeong's "Red Hunger" (Kantana Picture), Panu Aree's "Fātimah" (Kantana Virtual Production), Yen Hao-hsuan's "Uncle" (CathayPlay), Park Syeyoung's "Satellite of Love" (Songwon), and E Del Mundo's "Once Upon a Time in the Philippines" (ArteKino International).
- APM hit a record 604 submissions from 48 countries, with 30 projects from 17 countries in the official selection and eight projects sharing prizes across 11 categories at the first ACFM-APM combined ceremony.
- APM hosted 746 business meetings with 133 companies during ACFM (Oct. 10–13), running alongside Busan International Film Festival, which continues through Oct. 15.
- "Restless Farewell," directed by Yang Nan and He Peiyun about young migrant workers in precarious Shanghai jobs, won both the Impact Asia Award ($5,000) and the Newstapa Award (KRW10 million / ~$6,900) at the Doc Square documentary showcase.
- Korean AI startups Lumicraft (Castlink casting platform) and Reproduction (Pre-Flow screenplay tool) won the AWS Award at InnoAsia, while Taiwan's imCore Corp. took the MPS Award.
Why it matters: With a record 604 submissions from 48 countries and 746 business meetings logged during a single combined market, the Asia indie pipeline just had its largest matchmaking event of the year — and an Indonesian debut feature splitting three prizes against an Indian project taking two signals South and Southeast Asian stories are dominating buyer attention this cycle.
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