While Filmart is the biggest market event in Asia by some distance, there are plenty of other industry bashes throughout the year. Several take the opportunity of Filmart to display their wares.
The under new management Asian Film Awards took advantage of Filmart to host its inauguration on Sunday night, honouring a couple of actors as Rising Stars of Asia. The choices promptly opened the AFA to suggestions of nepotism that having a new multi-national organising committee were supposed to dispel.
