<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div>Thanks to all of you for your help!</div><div>One more question: does anybody know which the oldest/the first Japanese Festival is/was? </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.289062); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.222656); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.222656); "></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.285156); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.21875); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.21875);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.289062); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.222656); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.222656); ">Matteo Boscarol </span></div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 2010/09/22, at 4:59, Jasper Sharp <<a href="mailto:jasper_sharp@hotmail.com"><a href="mailto:jasper_sharp@hotmail.com">jasper_sharp@hotmail.com</a></a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
I was going to mention the Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival too.<br>One other in Tokyo is the Earth Vision environmental film festival. I've not heard anything about this festival at all, beyond all the various newsletters I receive from them.<br>Has anyone been to this at all?<br><br><br><br><br>Jasper Sharp: Writer & Film Curator Homepage<br><a href="http://jaspersharp.com/"><a href="http://jaspersharp.com/">http://jaspersharp.com/</a></a><br><br>Midnight Eye: The Latest and Best in Japanese Cinema<br><a href="http://www.midnighteye.com">http://www.midnighteye.com</a><br><br>Zipangu Fest: Japanarchy in the UK<br>http://zipangufest.com/<br><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:47:21 +0900<br>From: gangamati@gmail.com<br>To: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>Subject: Re: Japanese Film Festivals<br><br>Matteo-<br><br>As you noted you are writing about fests from the 70s to the present I take it you are interested in film fests that are no longer active. <br><br>Two fascinating ones in the 90s were the Sundance Film Festival in Tokyo, which offered both content from Sundance in Utah and Japanese work. It also had a prize to send a Japanese filmmaker to study in the US and was a breath of fresh air at the time.<br>
<br>Another 90s in Tokyo fest was the International Students' Film Festival which brought high-level student film from all over the world to Tokyo and offered prizes. Again, it was an exciting for emerging filmmakers,<br>
<br>Also, no one has mentioned the influential Image Forum Film Festival, which is more than 20 years old, and the Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, which has an interesting history.<br><br>Best,<br>Rob Schwartz<br>
Film critic<br>Tokyo<br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Aaron Gerow <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex;">
I don't think we should forget some of the other local film festivals that, while not having an international profile, were important as meeting grounds for filmmakers at home, festivals like Yufuin and Takasaki.<br>
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