The Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival are set to welcome their largest contingent of visiting filmmakers.
There will be 100 filmmakers, three international delegations, international stars and industry representatives from dozens of countries across the region attending the festival and awards ceremony which runs from November 19-29.
Thirty-nine films from 22 Asia Pacific countries are nominated in this year's APSA Awards, 34 of which will screen to local audiences at BAPFF.
Red carpet arrivals will take place in King George Square from 5.30 on November 26, ahead of the ceremony in Brisbane's City Hall.
Guests include model and actress Evgeniya Mandzhieva (The Gulls), Filipino actress Shamaine Buencamino (Lorna),Korean star Jung Jaeyoung (Right Now, Wrong Then)
Cinematographers and APSA nominee, Mark Lee Ping-bing (The Assassin), Australian filmmakers Rolf de Heer and Molly Reynolds (Another Country), Tibetan actor and comedian Shide Nyima(Tharlo), Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamed Arya (Avalanche), Korean actress Lee Young-lan (End of Winter), Russian Actress Victoria Korotkova from Berlin Silver Bear winner (Under Electric Clouds), APSA International Jury President, APSA Patron and Busan International Film Festival founder, director Kim Dong-Ho and APSA Academy president Jack Thompson.
The Australian delegation of writers, directors and producers, supported by Screen Australia includes Kim Mordaunt (The Rocket), Amiel Courtin-Wilson(Bastardy), Nadia Tass, Pauline Chan(33 Postcards) and James Lingwood.