| Mr. Yash Chopra was awarded the FIAPF
Award for outstanding achievement in film making at the annual Asia Pacific
Screen Awards, the region’s highest accolade in films. The awards were
announced last year on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, on 11th
November 2008, amidst more than 700 film industry luminaries from the
Asia-Pacific region, Europe and the United States.
Director General of the FIAPF, Benoit Ginisty, has flown
into Mumbai to honour Mr. Yash Chopra who unfortunately could not attend
the award ceremony last year. The felicitation ceremony will take place
tonight at the esteemed Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) Film
Festival.
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 The
FIAPF-Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs
de Films (International Federation of Film Producers Associations) based
in Paris, created in 1933, is an organization composed with 31 member
associations from 25 of the leading audiovisual production countries.
FIAPF is also in charge of supervising international film festivals, including
some of the world's most important ones.
The film awards was started by the State Government of
Queensland in association with CNN International, UNESCO and the International
Federation of Film Producers Associations with a motive to recognize movies
that present the flavour of the culture of the countries in which they
are made as well as to appreciate the excellence in the craft of film
making.
At the award ceremony last year, President of FIAPF,
Mr Andrés Vincente Gomez, described Mr. Chopra as "a legend
in Hindi cinema who has played a seminal role in making Indian films more
popular the world over."
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