i think it is a great idea as a festival, not a great idea to do
INSTEAD of TIFF, which is basically what they are talking about. Do two
fests, one for film, one for new media/games.<br>
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If this becomes a reality for TIFF the games/non-narrative content will
no doubt overshadow the narrative film portion of the fest. As you say
video games are huge here and very associated with Japan.<br>
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My comment about admitting irrelevance was directed to the present
position of TIFF in the world, not a new one with new content/video
games. I think they should fix this irrelevance by getting better
films, not by shifting the fest over to games/new content.<br>
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rob<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mathieu St-Pierre</b> <<a href="mailto:cteve@hotmail.com">cteve@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p>I think it's a great idea!</p>
<p>We have a festival in Montreal called Festival du nouveau cinema et
des nouveaux medias (Festival Of New Cinema and New Medias) and it
features many discussions and meetings about internet, video and other
digital works... along with international movies. The festival is doing
pretty well.</p>
<p>Now I understand that the TIFF might me wider in terms of medias and
presentations but Tokyo is not Montreal... it is Tokyo! So yeah,
im sure it will do pretty well.</p>
<p>*And yes it is relevent worldwide, take for exemple those Video
Games conventions held in Japan. It's every kids dream to go there. </p>
<p>Mathieu St-Pierre<br><br></p></div>
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</font><div></div><font style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><br>this is not good news in my opinion and franky, I take it as an admission<br>
</font><div></div><font style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">that TIFF is irrelevant worldwide. The overall idea of a Japanese<br>
</font><div></div><font style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">"International Content Carnival" is a good one but it should be step up<br>
</font><div></div><font style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">from scratch as it obvioiusly will not focus on feature films (especially<br>
</font><div></div><font style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">live action one).<br><br>
</font><div><span class="gmail_quote"><font style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">On 7/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wei Ting Jen</b> <<a href="mailto:intewig@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"></blockquote></div><font style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">I saw this in the news today, and was wondering what list members think?
<br><br><br>ENTERTAINMENT<br>Tokyo film festival to feature comics, games<br><br>Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 06:00 EDT<br><br><br>TOKYO — Japan is considering expanding the Tokyo International Film
</font><div></div><font style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><br>Festival to boost the country's "cultural content industry," which in<br>addition to books and film involves animation, comics, music and game
<br>software, the industry minister said Tuesday.<br><br><br>Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshihiro Nikai said at a press
</font><div></div><font style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><br>conference the film festival, which has been held 18 times, should be<br>expanded into an event tentatively called "International Content
<br>Carnival" to feature "multi contents" such as animation and comics.
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