Japanese Film Festivals

[Me]

Thanks all, your suggestions were very insightful and helpful, I think  
now I've got enough material to work on.

Best

Matteo Boscarol
- Il Manifesto -
http://www.cineclandestino.it http://artaud.wordpress.com

On 2010/09/22, at 11:02, "Alex Zahlten" <Alex.Zahlten at gmx.de> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> the oldest still film festival still running today is, as far as I  
> know, the Yufuin Film Festival.
>
> PIA and Image Forum are interesting in that they are staged at  
> different locations as well (Tokyo, Osaka, etc.). Yamagata does a  
> very reduced version of this by staging screenings in Tokyo (very  
> soon at Pore Pore Higashi Nakano, in fact).
>
> Not to forget, there is the Tokyo Video Festival (sponsored by JVC),  
> which has shown an immense amount of films since the 1970s, often  
> with a high caliber jury (it was pretty much a pioneer of showing  
> films made with video, at a time when PIA was more or less insisting  
> on film). The Tokyo Fantastic Film Festival created big waves in the  
> 1980s, but later on ran into financial difficulties. A lot of the  
> momentum (and some of the staff) carried over into the Yubari  
> Fantastic Film Festival.
>
> In Osaka, there is the Cinetribe film festival, revolving around the  
> Planet Studyo+1 theater/archive.
>
> The Skip City Film Festival came about as part of a machi-okoshi  
> scheme in Saitama. An example that relies more on community effort  
> is the Kawasaki Shinyuri Film Festival, run by scriptwriter  
> Shiratori Akane with lots of support from the Japan Academy of  
> Moving Images (Imamura Shohei's film school).
>
> The Short Short Film Festival gets a lot of publicity and is very  
> professionally managed (although there is often criticism about  
> bland programming).
>
> And, as everywhere, there has been a rise in festivals that also  
> finance/produce or just initiate the films they show, with the CO2  
> festival in Osaka being the most high-profile one; other examples  
> are the Haitoku Eigasai and the Gandara Eigasai, which basically  
> tour the country; the latter two are initiated by Shimada Yukiyasu,  
> and have been important in terms of community-building in Jishu  
> film. Another festival that has been (even more) important for this  
> is the Tama Cinema Forum, with its Tama New Wave prize.
>
> Alex
>
>
> -- 
> alex at nipponconnection.de
>
> GRATIS: Spider-Man 1-3 sowie 300 weitere Videos!
> Jetzt freischalten! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome