YIDFF and Documentary Box

[Aaron Gerow]

The website for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival has 
been revamped with a new look.  You can check it out at:

English: http://www.city.yamagata.yamagata.jp/yidff/home-e.html
Japanese: http://www.city.yamagata.yamagata.jp/yidff/home.html

Issue 16 of Documentary Box, the magazine of the YIDFF, has also been 
uploaded on the site.  This issue features long interviews with Kawase 
Naomi and Kim Longinotto.  The full contents are:

1.Documentarists of Japan #14: Kawase Naomi 
2.Interview with Kim Longinotto 
3.Three Arab Women Documentary Filmmakers Magda Wassef 
4.Docbox Books
     Kees Bakker, ed. Joris Ivens and the Documentary Context/ Michael 
Chanan
     Mori Tatsuya, A Diary of Filming "A"/Richard A. Gardner
     Jeffrey Ruoff & Kenneth Ruoff, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches 
On/Ishizaka Kenji 

English: 
http://www.city.yamagata.yamagata.jp/yidff/docbox/16/box16-1-1-e.html
Japanese: 
http://www.city.yamagata.yamagata.jp/yidff/docbox/16/box16-1-1.html

The full text of other issues are also available on the site, as well as 
of some of the YIDFF catalogs.  The site also features a searchable 
database of documentary films.

Aaron Gerow
Associate Professor
International Student Center
Yokohama National University
79-1 Tokiwadai
Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501
JAPAN
E-mail: gerow at ynu.ac.jp
Phone: 81-45-339-3170
Fax: 81-45-339-3171