The Asian Film Awards Academy (AFAA)
 
The Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Busan International Film Festivals, the three long established and major film festivals in Asia, have established the AFAA in February 2014. It is a new organization of “Asian Film Awards (AFA)”: The Academy Awards for the entire Asian region. AFA celebrates the outstanding films and filmmakers of Asia and encourages the new generation of Asian Film makers. The ceremony of the ninth Asian Film Awards was held in March this year in Macau, under the new organization.
　　
 
The Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF)
 
TIFF, and the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) held from June 13-21, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on their comprehensive and mutual cooperation as leading international film festivals in Asia.
Under this memorandum, this year’s SIFF screened films screened at the 27th TIFF such as Director Daihachi Yoshida’s Pale Moon which had won the Best Actress and Audience Award in the Competition section, Director Kiki Sugino’s Kyoto Elegy which had been selected in the Asian Future section, Director Masaharu Take’s 100 Yen Love which had won the Best Picture Award in the Japanese Cinema Splash section and Director Shuichi Okita’s Ecotherapy Getaway Holiday which had been selected in the Japanese Cinema Splash section and Special Mentioned by the jury at the 27th TIFF.