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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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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>"Rob Schwartz" <gangamati@gmail.com></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</I><BR>To: <I>KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: TIFF</I><BR>Date: <I>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:25:53 +0900</I><BR>MIME-Version: <I>1.0</I><BR>Received: <I>from lists.acs.ohio-state.edu ([128.146.216.100]) by bay0-mc7-f6.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2444); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:26:38 -0700</I><BR>Received: <I>from host (localhost [127.0.0.1])by lists.acs.ohio-state.edu (Postfix) with SMTPid 9E2948DF6; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:26:03 -0400 (EDT)</I><BR>Received: <I>from defang18.it.ohio-state.edu (defang18.it.ohio-state.edu [128.146.216.132])by lists.acs.ohio-state.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B963C8DD9for
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<DIV></DIV><BR>this is not good news in my opinion and franky, I take it as an admission<BR>
<DIV></DIV>that TIFF is irrelevant worldwide. The overall idea of a Japanese<BR>
<DIV></DIV>"International Content Carnival" is a good one but it should be step up<BR>
<DIV></DIV>from scratch as it obvioiusly will not focus on feature films (especially<BR>
<DIV></DIV>live action one).<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 7/12/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Wei Ting Jen</B> <<A href="mailto:intewig@gmail.com">intewig@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>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
<DIV></DIV><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
<DIV></DIV><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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