‘Moving’, ‘The Long Season’ Head Nominations For Busan Film Festival’s Asia Content Awards

Disney’s Korean superhero thriller Moving heads the nominations for this year’s Asia Content Awards at Busan International Film Festival with nods in six categories, followed by Tencent Video’s The Long Season with five nods. 

Moving picked up nominations for best creative, best writer (Kang Full), three acting categories and best visual effects. Crime thriller The Long Season was also nominated for best creative, along with best director (Xin Shuang), two acting categories and best visual effects. 

Netflix’s The Glory and Delete, from Thailand’s GDH 559 Company, also scored highly, racking up four nominations apiece (see full list below). 

Busan’s awards to recognise streaming and TV content, now known as the Asia Content Awards and Global OTT Awards, recently joined forces with the International OTT Festival, hosted by Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and Busan Metropolitan City, to open up its nominations to global content. As a result, the awards categories have increased from 12 to 17, across both competitive and non-competitive categories.

Nominees in the newly added Best Reality & Variety category include Netflix’s Physical: 100 and Let’s Feast Vietnam, the latter produced by BHD Vietnam Media Corp, as well as the Korean version of Saturday Night Live, SNL Korea, which streams on Coupang Play. Shows from Korean streamers & telcos Wavve, TVing and LG Uplus, as well as the Philippines GMA Network, are also nominated in this category. 

The nominations jury commented: “In the process of narrowing down the field from over 200 submissions to around 30 finalists, it was challenging to exclude many outstanding works. This year, the influence of global OTT platforms like Netflix and Disney+ remained significant. We