Tokyo International Film Festival Film Market (TIFCOM2004)

[Eija Margit Niskanen]

I second Rob's opinion. I don't know about deals made, but it sure 
looked empty there.

Eija

On Jan 20, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Rob Schwartz wrote:

> Markus-
>
>  your absolutely right, it is basically a failure.
>
>  My experience in 2005 was that it seemed like very moderate activity 
> on the first day and by the second day the place was deserted. I 
> reported as such for Variety with a few quotes from Western buyers. I 
> can dig up the story if you'd like to see it (or perhaps you saw it).
>
>  Best,
>
>  Rob Schwartz
>
>
> On 1/20/06, Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Outline of Fiscal 2004  
>> Location: Roppongi Hills
>> No. of Exhibitors: 86 companies
>>  (27 of which were Asian: 10 Korean, 10 Chinese, 5 Hong Kong, 1 Thai, 
>> and 1 Indian)
>> No. of Visitors: 4,537
>> No. of Business Talks: 1,110
>>
>> Outline of Fiscal 2005
>> Location: Roppongi Hills
>> No. of Exhibitors: 131
>>  (53 of which are Asian: 13 Korean, 6 Chinese, 8 Hong Kong, 8 
>> Taiwanese, 4 Thai, 1 Indian, 3 Indonesian, and 10 Malaysian)
>> No. of Visitors: 8,176
>>
>>
>> My impression from the trades is that this has been a great failure. 
>> Any comments from people in the know? Mark?!?!?
>>
>> Markus
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