this is not good news in my opinion and franky, I take it as an admission<br>
that TIFF is irrelevant worldwide. The overall idea of a Japanese<br>
"International Content Carnival" is a good one but it should be step up<br>
from scratch as it obvioiusly will not focus on feature films (especially<br>
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="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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
<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
<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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