The Toronto International Film Festival NETPAC Prize is an annual film award, presented by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema to honour the best film from the Asia-Pacific region screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. The award was presented for the first time in 2012.[1]

Winners

Year Film Director(s) Ref
2012 The Land of Hope Sion Sono [1]
2013 Qissa Anup Singh [2]
2014 Margarita, with a Straw Shonali Bose [3]
2015 The Whispering Star Sion Sono [4]
2016 In Between Maysaloun Hamoud [5]
2017 The Great Buddha+ Huang Hsin-Yao [6]
2018 The Third Wife Ash Mayfair [7]
The Crossing Bai Xue
2019 1982 Oualid Mouaness [8]
2020 Gaza mon amour Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser [9]
2021 Costa Brava, Lebanon Mounia Akl [10]
2022 Sweet As Jub Clerc [11]
2023 A Match (Sthal) Jayant Digambar Somalkar [12]
Mimang Kim Taeyang

References

  1. ^ a b Peter Howell, "Silver Linings Playbook writes surprise TIFF ending". Toronto Star, September 17, 2012.
  2. ^ "TIFF 2013: 12 Years a Slave wins film fest’s top prize". Toronto Star, September 15, 2013.
  3. ^ "'Margarita, with a Straw' wins NETPAC award at TIFF". Deccan Chronicle. September 14, 2014.
  4. ^ "'Room' reçoit le prix du public". Le Monde, September 21, 2015.
  5. ^ Chris Knight, "And the winner is ...; La La Land takes bellwether award". National Post, September 19, 2016.
  6. ^ Jeremy Kay (September 17, 2017). "'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' wins Toronto audience award". Screen Daily.
  7. ^ Jessica Wong, "Green Book, starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen, wins TIFF People's Choice prize". CBC News, September 16, 2018.
  8. ^ Hipes, Patrick (September 12, 2019). "Toronto Film Festival Jury Winners: 'Martin Eden', 'Murmur', 'How To Build A Girl'". Deadline Hollywood.
  9. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Toronto: Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Wins Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter, September 20, 2020.
  10. ^ Bruce Haring, "‘Anatolian Leopard’ And ‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’ Are The Big TIFF Award Winners". Deadline Hollywood, September 18, 2021.
  11. ^ Christian Zilko, "‘The Fabelmans’ Wins TIFF 2022 People’s Choice Award". IndieWire, September 18, 2022.
  12. ^ Steve Pond, "‘American Fiction’ Wins Toronto Film Festival’s Audience Award". TheWrap, September 17, 2023.
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