Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Asia Contents Awards, held as part of the Busan International Film Festival since 2019, is to join forces with the Global OTT Awards to form a wider-reaching event.
The merged events are to be known under the ungainly abbreviation ACA & G.OTT Awards and will be co-hosted by South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and Busan Metropolitan City authorities.
The ceremony will be held in Busan on Sunday Oct. 8. Last year’s fourth edition skewed heavily to Northeast Asia. Competitive prizes were dominated by Korean and Japanese series “Extraordinary Attorney Woo,” “Squid Game” and “Pachinko.” Other achievement awards went to Korea’s Pinkfong Company, China’s Fan Bingbing and Japan’s Tatsuo Kawamura.
The reach of the event is no longer to be restricted to Asia, but will now encompass content creation industries from the whole world.
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