TIFF awards

[Eija Niskanen]

At the press event.

Where was the party?

On 10/29/06, Rob Schwartz <gangamati at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, at the closing party Yanagimachi-san said the same thing to me.
>
> I think the decision was a travesty, The film is a parody of 50s spy,
> it's nice but not an award winning film. I am bitterly disappointed.
>
> Where did Yanagimachi-san announce he was against the decision?
>
> rob schwartz
>
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> On 10/29/06, Eija Niskanen <eija.niskanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > At the press conference for the awards the jury president Jean-Pierre
> > Jeunet told the press that the jury was one-minded when deciding the
> > Sakura Grand Prix award winner (OSS117: Cairo Nest of Spies), but
> > interestingly Yanagimachi Mitsuo announced that he was actually
> > against the decision, but that it was a majority vote 5-1.
> >
> > Eija
> >
> > On 10/29/06, Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:
> > > The TIFF site already list the awards given out today. It usually seems
> > > that the TIFF jury will hand out at least one consolation award to a
> > > Japanese film in the Competition, but this was not the case this year.
> > > The only Japanese film to win any Japanese award was Hiroki Ryuichi's M
> > > in the Japanese Eyes section, which earned a special award for its
> > > actor, Kora Kengo. What won the film prize for Japanese Eyes was in
> > > fact a documentary made by Linda Hattendorf, The Cats of Mirikitani. It
> > > might not be a pure Japanese film, but my congratulations go out to
> > > Yoshikawa Masa, the producer of that film who has helped out at a
> > > number of Kinema Club events.
> > >
> > > Aaron Gerow
> > > KineJapan owner
> > >
> > > Assistant Professor
> > > Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> > > Yale University
> > >
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