Shark Skin Man...

[Stephen Cremin]

Yes, Dawn Handler at Destiny Entertainment is handling international sales 
for "Shark Skin Man & Peach Hip Girl".  But for festival screenings, all 
decisions are still being made by Iizumi Hilo at Tohokushinsha.  For the 
record, his email:

h-iizumi at za2.so-net.ne.jp

Both are in London for the weekend where I expect to find at least one buyer 
for the film.  I'm not sure exactly why, but we have nine distributors 
coming to tomorrow night's gala screening of "Shark Skin Man".  Guess 
there's at least some thirst for Asian films from the four UK distributors 
who were outbid on "Kikujiro"...

But there does seem to be a new generation of distributors emerging in 
Europe, more open to this kind of fare.  I was very interested by Mark 
Schilling's recent email pointing out that Fortissimo are having more 
success opening up new markets for Asian film than selling to traditional 
buyers.  (At a time when Fortissimo is handling more [domestically] 
commercial films: "Rajio no Jikan", "Love Letter", etc.)

Stephen Cremin
London Pan-Asian Film Festival


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