名稱翻譯
英語全稱為Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema
大陸譯名:亞洲電影振興組織 或 亞洲電影促進聯盟
港台譯名:亞洲電影振興機構
官方解釋
The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC)isa worldwide organization of 29 member countries. It was created astheresult of a conference on Asian cinema organized by Cinemaya, theAsianFilm Quarterly, in New Delhi in 1990 at the instance and withthesupport of UNESCO, Paris.
Headquartered in Singapore,the NETPACis a pan-Asian film culturalorganization involving critics,filmmakers,festival organizers andcurators, distributors andexhibitors, as well asfilm educators. It isconsidered a leadingauthority on Asian cinema. Inthese 18 years it hasprogrammed Asiansections of international filmfestivals, introducedfilmmakers fromAsia to the world, brought out acompendium of theexisting filminfrastructure in different Asiancountries, organizedseminars andconferences and instituted an award forthe Best Asian filmatfestivals like Singapore, Pusan, Jeonju, Kerala,Kazakhstan andOsian’sCinefan among those in Asia; Berlin, Locarno,Karlovy Vary,Rotterdam,Vesoul and others in Europe; at Brisbane inAustralia; Hawaiiin theUS; Antalya in Turkey and Black Nights inEstonia.
The NETPAC Award is given at select international filmfestivals topromote Asian cinema by spotlighting exceptional films anddiscoveringnew talents. Among film makers who have won thishighly-coveted awardare Jia Zhangke and Wang Xiaoshuai from China,Adoor Gopalakrishnan,Rituparno Ghosh and Buddhadeb Dasgupta from India,Marziyeh Meshkiniand Rakshan Bani-Etemad in Iran, Stanley Kwan and AnnHui from HongKong, Kawase Naomi and Yoichi Sai from Japan, BrillanteMendoza fromPhilippines, Lee Chang Dong and Kim Ki-Duk from Korea,Roystan Tan fromSingapore, Garin Nugroho from Indonesia, AbdullatifAbdulhamid fromSyria, Prasanna Vithanage from Sri Lanka, Abbas Fahdelfrom Iraq…
中文簡介
NETPAC的另一個主要貢獻是在國際電影界上設立亞洲影評人聯盟獎;隨著越來越多的亞洲電影入選國際影展並呈現在世界觀眾面前,對質量的要求是很有必要的,正是這種與競賽精神所吻合的要求點燃了亞洲年輕電影人的創作欲望。現在。24個國際電影節上都頒發亞洲影評人聯盟獎,這些電影節遍布於18個國家和四大洲(包括亞特蘭大、曼谷、巴塞隆納、柏林、布里斯班、愛沙尼亞、釜山、富川、羅馬、鹿特丹、新加坡、台北、沃蘇勒和重慶)。
——《第四屆造影青春:重慶民間映畫交流展宣傳冊》(CIFVF2010)
NETPAC是一個目前有29個成員國的泛亞洲電影文化國際組織,1990年成立於印度新德里,總部設在新加坡,涉及電影批評、電影創作發行行業、電影節等,以促進亞洲電影復興和發展為己任,被認為是亞洲電影復興和發展的領頭羊。該組織得到聯合國教科文組織的支援和幫助,並在國際享有強大的影響力,諸多國際電影節如釜山電影節、柏林電影節、坎城電影節等,都設有NETPAC評審會獎項。
現任秘書長為新加坡華裔謝福龍(Philip Cheach)。