AKIPRESS.COM - The Asian World Film Festival has started in Culver city, Los Angeles and is running until the 14th of November with Meryem Uzerli, who played Hurrem in Magnificent century, as Jury President.
AWFF2019 Jurors are Ms. Guka Omarova, Director, (Kazakhstan), Ms. Kieu Chinh, Actress/Producer/Writer, Ms. Sarah Finn, Casting Director; Mr. Jeremy Kagan, Emmy-winning Director, Ms. Ting Ting Xu (Producer and Journalist, HFPA), and Ms. Iris Yamashita, Oscar-nominated Screenwriter.
Among the Honorees are actress Nancy Kwan, Japanese Actor Hiroyuki Sanada and Director Lena Khan.