The Nominations for the 3rd Asian Festival of 1st films, an event under the Asia Media Festival 2007, hosted by the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA), have been announced in Singapore. 21 films and documentaries across nine award categories have been selected for this year's festival. An additional 8 films have been selected in the out-of competition section. The festival culminates in a grand, star-studded Awards Night (4 December 2007) where the jury will announce the award winning films for AFFF 2007.

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The 21 nominated first films and documentaries will vie for 10 awards in the categories of: Best Film (Producer & Director), Best Director, Best Producer, Best Cinematographer or Editor, Best Actor (Female), Best Actor (Male), Best Script/Screenplay, Best Documentary, Best Director of Documentary and the Purple Orchid Foreign Correspondents Association Choice Award. All films and documentaries will be screened at Golden Village Vivocity cinemas, the Arts House and HOUSE during the week-long Asian Festival of 1st Films from 27 November - 4 December 2007.

AFFF's impressive début in Singapore in 2005 as the world's first Asian festival for first films attracted the attention of the global media and indicates a growing distributor and investor confidence in Asian first films. In the past two years alone, many of the award winners have moved on to gain critical acclaim and major awards at prestigious international film festivals such as the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Montreal Film Festival, La Palmas, New York Film Festival and San Francisco Film Festival. Through distribution, these films generated over S$18 million of business across Asia and Europe including China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, and South Africa.

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