John Lloyd Cruz, First From Southeast Asia to Receive Star Asia Award in New York

Kapamilya actor John Lloyd Cruz will receive the Star Asia award at the 15th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF).<br /> <br /> Cruz is the first Filipino to receive such an award in the United States and the first Southeast Asian to receive an honor.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-426gjmn3u80/V0-RDpwHyyI/AAAAAAAAHZI/QfOc_JDB3_UQJdChJ9FboLu_Ngct3qEjACK4B/s1600/John%2BLloyd%2BCruz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="418" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-426gjmn3u80/V0-RDpwHyyI/AAAAAAAAHZI/QfOc_JDB3_UQJdChJ9FboLu_Ngct3qEjACK4B/s640/John%2BLloyd%2BCruz.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">image from Manila Bulletin</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> John Lloyd joins two other Asian actors, Miriam Yeung from Hong Kong and Lee Byung-Hun from South Korea as recipients of the prestigious award.<br /> <br /> Another Filipina is set to be honored at the film fest and this is 15-year-old Therese 'Teri' Malvar, who'll receive her Screen International Rising Star Asia Award together with Japan's Go Ayano and China's Jelly Lin.<br /> <br /> The Philippines has three films in this Year's NYAFF: Erik Matti's Honor Thy Father, Ralston Jover's Hamog (Haze), and Mario Cornejo's Apocalypse Child.<br /> <br /> The full line-up for the 15th New York Asian Film Festival is as follows:<br /> <br /> CHINA (4):<br /> The Bodyguard (dir. Yue Song, 2016)<br /> Mr. Six (dir. Guan Hu, 2015)<br /> Saving Mr. Wu (dir. Ding Sheng, 2015)<br /> What’s in the Darkness (dir. Wang Yichun, 2016)<br /> HONG KONG PANORAMA (9)<br /> <br /> The Bodyguard (dir. Sammo Hung, 2016)<br /> Keeper of Darkness (dir. Nick Cheung, 2015)<br /> Lazy Hazy Crazy (dir. Luk Yee-sum, 2015)<br /> Love in the Buff (dir. Pang Ho-cheung, 2012)<br /> The Mermaid (dir. Stephen Chow, 2016)<br /> The Mobfathers (dir. Herman Yau, 2016) w/short Killer and Undercover (dir. Lau Ho-Leung, 2016)<br /> She Remembers, He Forgets (dir. Adam Wong, 2015)<br /> Triviá¹£a (dirs. Frank Hui, Jevons Au & Vicky Wong, 2016)<br /> Weeds on Fire (dir. Chan Chi-fat, 2016)<br /> JAPAN (13):<br /> <br /> All About Lily Chou-Chou (dir. Iwai Shunji, 2001)<br /> A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (dir. Iwai Shunji, 2016)<br /> Creepy (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2016)<br /> Hentai Kamen 2: The Abnormal Crisis (dir. Yuichi Fukuda, 2016)<br /> Kiyamachi Daruma (dir. Hideo Sakaki, 2015)<br /> Miss Hokusai (dir. Keiichi Hara, 2015)<br /> Swallowtail Butterfly (dir. Iwai Shunji, 1996)<br /> Tekkonkinkreet (dir. Michael Arias, 2006)<br /> Tetsuo: The Iron Man (dir. Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989)<br /> Twisted Justice (dir. Kazuya Shiraishi, 2016)<br /> What a Wonderful Family! (Yoji Yamada, 2016)<br /> Additional two movies will be added on the line-up soon<br /> SOUTH KOREA (11):<br /> <br /> Alone (dir. Park Hong-min, 2015)<br /> The Bacchus Lady (dir. E J-yong, 2016)<br /> The Boys Who Cried Wolf (dir. Kim Jin-hwang, 2015)<br /> Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet (dir. Lee Joon-ik, 2016)<br /> Fourth Place (dir. Jung Ji-woo, 2015)<br /> Inside Men (dir. Woo Min-ho, 2015)<br /> The Priests (dir. Jang Jae-hyun, 2015)<br /> Seoul Station (dir. Yeon Sang-ho, 2015)<br /> The Sound of a Flower (dir. Lee Jong-pil, 2015)<br /> The Throne (dir. Lee Joon-ik, 2015)<br /> A Violent Prosecutor (dir. Lee Il-hyeong, 2016)<br /> SOUTHEAST ASIA (7):<br /> <br /> Apocalypse Child (dir. Mario Cornejo, 2015)<br /> Grace (dirs. Ornusa Donsawai & Pun Homchuen, 2016)<br /> Hamog (Haze) (dir. Ralston Jover, 2015)<br /> Heart Attack (dir. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, 2015)<br /> Honor Thy Father (dir. Erik Matti, 2015)<br /> Jagat (Brutal) (dir. Shanjhey Kumar Perumal, 2015)<br /> Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass (dir. Victor Vu, 2015)<br /> TAIWAN (5):<br /> <br /> The Laundryman (dir. Lee Chung, 2015)<br /> Maverick (dir. Cheng Wen-tang, 2015)<br /> The Tag-Along (dir. Cheng Wei-hao, 2015)<br /> The Tenants Downstairs (dir. Adam Tsuei, 2016)<br /> Zinnia Flower (dir. Tom Lin, 2015)<br /> SPECIAL SCREENING from Hong Kong (1):<br /> <br /> 10 Years (dirs. Kwok Zune, Chow Kwun-wai, Jevons Au, Ng Ka-leung & Wong Fei-pang, 2015)<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.pep.ph/guide/movies/23748/john-lloyd-cruz-first-southeast-asian-to-get-star-asia-award-in-new-york-film-fest?ref=latest" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">source</a><br /> <div> <br /></div>

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