Japanese Film Festivals

[Me]

Thanks to all of you for your help!
One more question: does anybody know which the oldest/the first  
Japanese Festival is/was?

Thank you

Matteo Boscarol

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On 2010/09/22, at 4:59, Jasper Sharp <jasper_sharp at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I was going to mention the Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film  
> Festival too.
> One other in Tokyo is the Earth Vision environmental film festival.  
> I've not heard anything about this festival at all, beyond all the  
> various newsletters I receive from them.
> Has anyone been to this at all?
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> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:47:21 +0900
> From: gangamati at gmail.com
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Japanese Film Festivals
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> Matteo-
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> As you noted you are writing about fests from the 70s to the present  
> I take it you are interested in film fests that are no longer active.
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> Two fascinating ones in the 90s were the Sundance Film Festival in  
> Tokyo, which offered both content from Sundance in Utah and Japanese  
> work. It also had a prize to send a Japanese filmmaker to study in  
> the US and was a breath of fresh air at the time.
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> Another 90s in Tokyo fest was the International Students' Film  
> Festival which brought high-level student film from all over the  
> world to Tokyo and offered prizes. Again, it was an exciting for  
> emerging filmmakers,
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> Also, no one has mentioned the influential Image Forum Film  
> Festival, which is more than 20 years old, and the Tokyo  
> International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, which has an interesting  
> history.
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> Best,
> Rob Schwartz
> Film critic
> Tokyo
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> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>  
> wrote:
> I don't think we should forget some of the other local film  
> festivals that, while not having an international profile, were  
> important as meeting grounds for filmmakers at home, festivals like  
> Yufuin and Takasaki.
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