Japanese shorts (Q)

[Fujioka Asako]

This is in response to David Lewis's inquiry about Japanese shorts. 

I don't whether you include documentaries or mock docs in your festival,
but I have recently compiled a handmade booklet/catalogue in English of
new (mostly 1998-2000) films and videos under this genre. It contains
the main information and a short synopsis, brief profile of the director
for each work, and all the contact information. 

Let me know if you'd like a copy. It was compiled for the use of
festival organizers and potential distributors overseas. Recent years
have seen a lot of "non-genre" works (as they call them in the TV
industry over here) especially in video coming out from the younger
generation filmmakers and they are no longer your wholesome educational
bunka eiga, even if they may be shot using documentary methods. 

Incidentally, I work with the Yamagata International Documentary Film
Festival coordinating the New Asian Currents program and New Cinema from
Japan, an independent initiative to promote Japanese films overseas.
This catalogue comes out of the overlapping of my two interests. 

Yours, 
Fujioka Asako 

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