<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div>To partially answer my own question, the audience award at San Sebastian "goes to the distributor of the film in Spain".</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443479933740_50336"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443479933740_50334" href="http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2015/awards_and_jury_members/1/4961/in">http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2015/awards_and_jury_members/1/4961/in</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443479933740_50393" dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The San Sebastain festival website lists 'sales' contact for each film but unlike, say, the London Film Festival, does not list the domestic distributor. The sales contact is Wildbunch. For 'Mountains May Depart' its MK2. Both are based in Paris. I don't know whether or how the Festival could enforce 'distributor'. Wildbunch have been less than conspicuous in distributing some earlier Koreeda films in the UK.</div><div dir="ltr">Roger<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443479933740_50406"><span></span></div><br> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Roger Macy <macyroger@yahoo.co.uk><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan@lists.osu.edu> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 27 September 2015, 18:00<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [KineJapan] San Sebastian<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv5515007386"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px;"><div class="yiv5515007386" dir="ltr" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443199153665_12077">Thanks, Jose, for reminding me of 'The Boy and the Beast'.</div><div class="yiv5515007386" dir="ltr" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443199153665_12078"><br class="yiv5515007386" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443372670260_3588" clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5515007386" dir="ltr" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443199153665_11920">I
see that 'Our Little Sister' has indeed won the audience award. I
wonder how the €50,000 is shared, if at all, between director and
producers. I wonder especially as the other audience prize, to their
favorite European film, went to JIA Jang-ke's 'Mountains May Depart',
which has a Japanese co-producer.<br class="yiv5515007386" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443372670260_3591" clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5515007386" dir="ltr" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443199153665_11915"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv5515007386" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443199153665_11913" target="_blank" href="http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2015/news/1/5623/in">http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2015/news/1/5623/in</a></div><div class="yiv5515007386" dir="ltr" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443372670260_3595"><br class="yiv5515007386" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443372670260_3597" clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5515007386" dir="ltr" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443199153665_12104">I
see some irony. It would be too cynical to define a Jishu-eiga as a
film project no Japanese producer will touch, but it's certainly a film
made without a producer.</div><div class="yiv5515007386" dir="ltr" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443199153665_12105"><br class="yiv5515007386" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443372670260_3601" clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5515007386" dir="ltr" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443199153665_12307">European
films at festivals may go through several rounds of funding before
completion. We have remarked before about the dearth of independent
production funds in Japan so Jia seems at least doubly blessed in having
apparently found one.</div><div class="yiv5515007386" dir="ltr" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443372670260_2503"><br class="yiv5515007386" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443372670260_3605" clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5515007386" dir="ltr" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443199153665_12308">But anyway, congratulations to both films and their makers.</div><div class="yiv5515007386" dir="ltr" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443372670260_3608"><br class="yiv5515007386" id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443372670260_3610" clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Roger</div><div dir="ltr">(An earlier, identical version of this mis-fired and only went to Jose, as I didn't get his posting to the list. That won't be the only time this week I've seen a reply to a posting I've never seen.)<br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv5515007386yui_3_16_0_1_1443372670260_3556"><span></span></div><br clear="none"> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv5515007386yqt7180028513" id="yiv5515007386yqt73078"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;margin-top:5px;padding-left:5px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br clear="none"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jose Montaño <mostro.films@gmail.com><br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Roger Macy <macyroger@yahoo.co.uk>; Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan@lists.osu.edu> <br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 27 September 2015, 9:19<br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [KineJapan] San Sebastian<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div class="yiv5515007386y_msg_container"><br clear="none"><div id="yiv5515007386"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Thank you for that brilliant report on the festival.</div><div>I'll just add that apart, from ‘Our Little Sister’, the official competition also included 'The Boy and the Beast'. This is remarkable since San Sebastian has been a conservative festival, perhaps too sensitive to some old fashioned film criticism gurus in Spanish media, not especially open regarding to animation. The current chairman, Jose Luis Rebordinos, has a long experience as director of a genre festival like the Fantastic and Horror Film Week of San Sebastián. He also was the coordinator of the journal Nosferatu (all its numbers here: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/39966">https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/39966</a>), a great contribution to the spreading of knowledge around cinema with some volumes devoted to Japanese cinema. Looks like his hand is being fundamental in the way the festival is, step by step, breaking with its conservative bias and introducing other forms to understand cinema.</div></div></div></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv5515007386gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv5515007386gmail_quote">On 27 September 2015 at 09:22, Roger Macy <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:macyroger@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:macyroger@yahoo.co.uk">macyroger@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv5515007386gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv5515007386qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5515007386yqt7575774819" id="yiv5515007386yqt27166"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px;">
<div><span style="">The San
Sebastian film festival finishes this evening. At time of writing, with one day’s
voting still to come, Koreeda’s ‘Our Little Sister’ is out in front for the
€50,000 <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2015/awards_and_jury_members/1/4961/in">audience
award</a>.</span></div>
<div><span style="">Otherwise,
Japanese films were confined to the <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2015/sections_and_films/thematic_retrospective/1/4954/in">retrospective</a>
on independent Japanese films since the year 2000, as was announced previously
on this site.</span></div>
<div><span style="">With respect
to the numbers, it included 35 films, all subtitled in english and
spanish.<span> </span>For seven screenings, the
spanish subtitles were substituted with basque.<span>
</span>All films had at least two screenings with a few having a third
screening.<span> </span>In accordance with Festival
practice, no screenings started before 1600.<span>
</span>Since the screenings were spread over the city, this meant that even the
most devoted viewer could not see all the films. I could only come for three days
but was happy to catch a few films previously unseen.<span> </span>The distribution of Japanese independent
films is very patchy and, although I cannot speak for every European country,
many of these have not previously been seen in theatres in Spain and perhaps
only for one brief tour, or, in some cases, not at all, in the UK.</span></div>
<div><span style="">The Festival
has produced a book to accompany the retrospective, with spanish and english
text. <span> </span>‘Nuevo Cine Independiente Japonés
2000-2015’ edited by Shozo ICHIYAMA, is in what I’ll call their ‘B’ format -
that is it’s like ‘Japón en Negro’ in format, not like their books on Naruse
and Oshima.<span> </span>Although it’s slimmer than
the 2008 ‘Negro’ book, I think in many ways it’s an improvement.<span> </span>The stills, which appear in the spanish section
only, are in colour.<span> </span>The english feels
more readable.<span> </span>That’s mainly because
they’ve dropped the filmographies that, these days are better provided on the internet,
and included a review of each of the thirty-five films, by a variety of
writers. Since I haven’t spotted anything negative in any of them, perhaps I
should call them ‘championing’, rather than critical pieces.<span> </span>Nevertheless, they stand as often the only
write-up on these films in spanish, or in english - only eleven of them were,
for example, reviewed in Midnight Eye.</span></div>
<div><span style="">These are
preceded by essays by Ichiyama, on <i>Jishu Eiga</i>, and by Chris Fujiwara,
who rose to the task of identifying thematic commonalities in independent
Japanese film, producing something more readable and insightful than the task
would indicate.</span></div>
<div><span style="">San Sebastian
staged a press <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/tv/6/217/in">conference</a>
chaired by Roberto Cueto with Ichiyama and directors, Makoto SHINOZAKI and
Shinya TSUKAMOTO.<span> </span>Most of the
information in the press conference is better available in the book but I
learned at least one thing from the conference.<span>
</span>There had been talk of the self-financing needed for independent films
in Japan and the inevitable example came up of Wakamatsu sinking everything he
owned into house that was destroyed for ‘United Red Army’.<span> </span>But Tsukamoto-san managed to point out in a different
part of the conference that he had sunk all that he owned <u>and</u> all that
he inherited from his father, who died during the production of his ‘Fires on
the Plain.</span></div>
<div><span style="">Since that is
showing tomorrow morning at 10.00 tomorrow morning here in London at the
Raindance Film Festival - nine hours from now, I’ve sunk my £9.75 into this
venture and better get myself to bed.</span></div>
<div><span style=""><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://calendar.raindancefestival.org/films/fires-on-the-plain">http://calendar.raindancefestival.org/films/fires-on-the-plain</a></span></div><span class="yiv5515007386HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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