Toronto International Film Festival NETPAC Prize

The Toronto International Film Festival NETPAC Prize is an annual film award, presented by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema to honour the best film from Asia having its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The award was presented for the first time in 2012.[1]

Winners

Year	Film	Director(s)	Ref
2012	The Land of Hope	Sion Sono	[1]
2013	Qissa	Anup Singh	[2]
2014	Margarita, with a Straw	Shonali Bose	[3]
2015	The Whispering Star	Sion Sono	[4]
2016	In Between	Maysaloun Hamoud	[5]
2017	The Great Buddha+	Huang Hsin-Yao	[6]
2018	The Third Wife	Ash Mayfair	[7]
	The Crossing	Bai Xue
2019	1982	Oualid Mouaness	[8]
2020	Gaza mon amour	Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser	[9]

References

1. Peter Howell, "Silver Linings Playbook writes surprise TIFF ending". Toronto Star, September 17, 2012.
2. "TIFF 2013: 12 Years a Slave wins film fest’s top prize". Toronto Star, September 15, 2013.
3. "'Margarita, with a Straw' wins NETPAC award at TIFF". Deccan Chronicle. September 14, 2014.
4. "'Room' reçoit le prix du public". Le Monde, September 21, 2015.
5. Chris Knight, "And the winner is ...; La La Land takes bellwether award". National Post, September 19, 2016.
6. Jeremy Kay (September 17, 2017). "'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' wins Toronto audience award". Screen Daily.
7. Jessica Wong, "Green Book, starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen, wins TIFF People's Choice prize". CBC News, September 16, 2018.
8. Hipes, Patrick (September 12, 2019). "Toronto Film Festival Jury Winners: 'Martin Eden', 'Murmur', 'How To Build A Girl'". Deadline Hollywood.
9. Etan Vlessing, "Toronto: Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Wins Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter, September 20, 2020.