Asia Screen Awards Group is a Bi-monthly Festivals. We are looking for films with strong stories, made with passion, and with good composition. We appreciated every department in producing a film. It is a team work, and each department deserved recognition for their artistic taste, for their hard work, for their vision, for their expertise, for their skill, and for their passion.

Asia Screen Awards accept timeless films from any genres. The films submitted must either: contain Asia theme (any countries), filmed in one or more than one Asia countries, or made by Asian filmmakers.

We welcome students and newcomers to enter into emerging categories.

Films with languages other than English are welcomed but must be added with English subtitle (or it can be dubbed into English).

CATEGORIES
GENERAL CATEGORY BASED ON FILM LENGTH:
Fiction Films:
- Asian Short Film
Fiction film with duration less than 24 minutes
- Asian Fiction Featurette
Fiction film with 24–40 minutes in running time.
- Asian Feature Film
Fiction film with duration longer than 40 minutes
Documentary film: Including docufiction and docudrama. (Docufiction refers to a cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, and a docudrama relates to the documentary that includes dramatized re-enactments of actual events.
- Asian Short Documentary
Documentary with a running time less than 24 minutes
- Asian Documentary Feature
Documentary with a running time more than 40 minutes

International Film & Documentary
Open for any film and documentary with any length

- Asian Music Video
- Emerging Asian Director
- Emerging Asian Short Film
- Emerging Asian Feature Film
- Emerging Asian Documentary
Asian Script Awards:
(English language only, send your script in .pdf format)
- Asian Short Script
(5-60 Pages)
- Asian Feature Script
(> 60 Pages)

GENRES AWARDS:
- Asian Action film
- Asian Adventure film/documentary
- Asian Animation film/documentary
- Asian Biography film/documentary
- Asian Comedy film
- Asian Crime film/documentary
- Asian Drama film
- Asian Faith-Based film/documentary
- Asian Family film/documentary
- Asian Fantasy film/documentary
- Asian Film-Noir
- Asian History film/documentary
- Asian Horror film/documentary
- Asian Music film/documentary
- Asian Musical film/documentary
- Asian Mystery film/documentary
- Asian Romance film
- Asian Sci-Fi film/documentary
- Asian Sports film/documentary
- Asian Thriller film/documentary
- Asian War film/documentary

PERFORMANCE AWARDS:
PERFORMANCE IN ASIAN FEATURE FILM:
- Actor
- Actress
- Supporting Actor
- Supporting Actress
- Couple Performance
- Ensemble Cast
- Newcomer
- Child Performance

PERFORMANCE IN ASIAN SHORT FILM:
- Actor
- Actress
- Supporting Actor
- Supporting Actress
- Couple Performance
- Ensemble Cast
- Newcomer Performance
- Child Performance

PERFORMANCE IN ASIAN EMERGING FILM:
- Actor
- Actress
- supporting Actor
- Supporting Actress
- Couple Performance
- Ensemble Cast
- Newcomer Performance
- Child Performance

PERFORMANCE IN ASIAN EMERGING DOCUMENTARY:
- actor
- actress
- supporting actor
- supporting actress
- couple performance
- ensemble cast
- newcomer performance
- child performance

PRODUCTION AWARDS:
PRODUCTION IN ASIAN FEATURE FILM:
- director
- cinematographer
- production designer
- costume designer
- sound
- music director
- editor
- screenplay

PRODUCTION IN ASIAN SHORT FILM:
- director
- cinematographer
- production designer
- costume designer
- sound
- music director
- editor
- screenplay

PRODUCTION IN ASIAN EMERGING FEATURE FILM:
- director
- cinematographer
- production design
- costume design
- sound
- music director
- editor
- screenplay

PRODUCTION IN ASIAN EMERGING DOCUMENTARY FILM:
- director
- cinematographer
- production design
- costume design
- sound
- music director
- editor
- screenplay

DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION:
ASIAN DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
- director
- cinematography
- editing
- sound
- music
- visual effects
- concept

ASIAN SHORT DOCUMENTARY:
- short documentary film
- director
- cinematography
- editing
- sound
- music
- visual effects
- concept

- Platinum, or Golden, or Silver Award.
- When attending the Awards Ceremony in Indonesia, winners will receive physical awards such as statue, certificate, sash, and other winning souvenirs.

Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully. By submitting your film/s or script or music video (Work) to the Asia Screen Awards (the Festival), you agree to all Terms and Conditions below in full.

*FILM SUBMITTED*
- Submitter/filmmakers guarantee that all submitted work is original, and all right, title, and interest (including copyright) therein and thereto is owned and/or controlled by the submitter/filmmaker to the full extent necessary to enable the Festival to use the Work as contemplated by these Rules.
- Submitter/filmmakers guarantee that the Work submitted does not infringe upon the intellectual property or other statutory or common law rights of any third party.
- All submissions should be sent prepaid.
- All submission fees are not refundable.
- When a work is accepted, filmmaker/submitter must provide us with your poster or film still, and a brief synopsis (soft-copy for website purposes).
- All selection committees' and juries' decisions are finals.
- Only attending winning filmmakers at our Awards Ceremony will receive physical awards. Regardless of the Prize and the winning status, winning filmmakers who can't attend the Awards Ceremony, will only receive laurels.
- The Festival has the right to disqualify a winning film for any reasons, without having to explain the reasons to the submitter.
- The Festival has the right to work with any institution and partners festival for all kind of cooperation, including joint events or promotions.
- Submission of an entry gives the festival or its appointed partner permission to have accepted poster or frame of the work exhibited, or photographed for publicity purposes. - The Festival reserves the right to make any necessary changes in regulations or deadlines.

- It is a must to keep communications with the Festival professional and in good taste. Failure to do so may result in disqualification at any point in the adjudication process, including the nullification of Official Selection status or nominations. That stated, the Festival will only communicate with the person who submitted his/her film to the festival, and that Festival should not be expected to communicate with any other persons.

- The Festival Management reserves the right to make changes in the profile of the Festival if it becomes necessary to do so due to circumstances beyond his/her control.
- Submitter/filmmakers acknowledge that remediation of any sort will be limited to a refund of their submission fees.

- Submitter/filmmakers agree to indemnify us and hold us and our employees, owners, affiliates, and partners harmless from all claims and liability associated with your participation or entry to the Festival.

- All disputes in respect of any matter relating to the Festival shall be subjected to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts in North Jakarta. Any dispute arising as a result of submission to the Festival will have a recourse limited to the lesser of either the submission fee paid or the cost of correcting the issue.

- By submitting to the Festival, submitter/filmmaker indicates that they have read, understand, agree with, and will comply all of the Terms and Condition above, and accept all of the terms and conditions herein, in their entirety, without modification.

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  • Jyoti Singh

    Our film, "HE TOO" & "SOLACE BY THE SEA" is selected and it is an honor to be selected at this film festival. "HE TOO" has won many Accolade awards and nomination. I am happy we made it to the "official selection list" at Asia Screen Awards. Thank you so much. Peace

    June 2020
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you Jyoti. Keep up the great work.

  • Muy agradecida por estar en su festival!
    Gracias

    June 2020
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you Reyes. Keep up the great work.

  • Our film "Lost in Space" is officially selected. Lost in Space has won an Accolade award and 27 other IMDb awards with 1 nomination. We are happy it also made the "official selection list" at Asia Screen Awards.

    August 2019
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you Shihyun. Keep up the great work.