From nornes at umich.edu Sun Aug 4 00:08:22 2024 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 13:08:22 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Job Announcement in Media Studies Message-ID: https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?&id=D124072376&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0I8MMGoJoAZ8Qz3JyJZkh8U9olXXlYYpvtHkvbh_zuscGA3hqh2ztIIeg_aem_fXyPZDuOyQn1cJkc66lkYQ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nornes at umich.edu Sun Aug 4 00:14:56 2024 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 13:14:56 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Job Announcement in Media Studies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: And in English: Dean: Kensuke Kumagai Faculty of Cross-Cultural and Japanese Studies Kanagawa University Tenured Professorship in Media and Communication The Faculty of Cross-Cultural and Japanese Studies, Kanagawa University is seeking a tenured faculty with expertise in the field of Media and Communication. 1? Faculty Cross-Cultural and Japanese Studies (Department of Cross-Cultural Studies) 2? Research Field Media and Communication?With a focus on the normative and functional role of the media in a global setting? 3? Classes ?Mass Media and Language A/Mass Media Theories? ?Journalism and Language A/ Journalism Theories? ?Media Literacy? ?Social Media and Language? etc ? Classes to be taught by applicant (listed above) may be subject to change ? Applicant may also be required to teach ?Related courses?, ?Liberal Arts (English)?, ?Course seminar I, II?, ?Seminar I, II?, ?Graduation thesis?. In addition, the applicant may be required to teach as well as supervise graduate level courses. ? Applicant may also be required to undertake educational and research oriented tasks, social contribution activities, administrative duties designated by the university, faculty and/or department. 4? Position Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor ? As of April 1st, 2007, in accordance with the revision of the School Education Law, the university has changed the title of full-time lecturer to Assistant Professor. 5? Personnel 1 6? Location Minatomirai Campus (4-5-3 Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan) 7? Eligibility (1) Applicant that holds a doctoral degree in a related field (including a prospective doctoral degree by the time of appointment) or those who show research achievements equivalent to that of a doctoraldegree. (2) Applicant must hold at least 3 educational or research publications in their research field. (3) Native English speaker or near equivalent English-speaking proficiency. (Non-native English speakers are required to submit TOEFL?, IELTS or other English proficiency tests that demonstratetheir English proficiency.) (4) Non-native Japanese speakers must have sufficient Japanese language ability (Level 2 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test or equivalent) in order to offer lectures in Japanese. 8? Documents Please compile documents (1) ~ (6) into a single PDF file and submit to JREC-IN Portal. Please use format/documents specified by university unless specified otherwise. https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?id=D124072376 (1) Curriculum Vitae (with photograph) (2) List of Educational and Research Achievements (circle three major achievements) ???Reprint of 3 major papers (please include abstract or summary) ???Syllabus draft Syllabus for ?Journalism and Language A/Journalism Theories? and ?Social Media and Language? (both intended for first-year students and above), which should include an outline of each lecture for a semester (14 semester sessions, 100 minutes per week). No specified format. Syllabus draft can be submitted in either Japanese or English. ???Future research plan (summarized in Japanese or English) ???Name, affiliation, telephone number and e-mail address of person who can, upon request,submit a reference letter before the interview. ? Please attach an inventory of submitted documents from (1) through (6). https://www.kanagawa-u.ac.jp/employment/professor/fulltime/ ? (1) Curriculum Vitae and (2) List of Educational and Research Achievements forms can be downloaded from https://www.kanagawa-u.ac.jp/employment/professor/fulltime/ ? Applicant may be requested to submit an original copy of their Doctoral Degree certification. ? Submitted documents will not be returned. Submitted documents will not be used for any purpose other than the application process, and will be deleted responsibly by the university. (As for successful applicants, said documents will continue to be used for employment management). 9? Submission Deadline September 27, 2024 (Sun) via JREC-IN Portal 10? Selection Process ???First round: Application review ???Second round: Interview and trial teaching (scheduled at October 27, 2024 ) Applicant will be requested to demonstrate a 30 minute lecture on ?Social Media and Language?(Japanese or English) ?Successful candidates for Second round will be notified by October 27, 2024. 11? AcceptanceDate Notification regarding acceptance is scheduled to be delivered by e-mail or via post mail delivery by the end of November 2024. 12? Employment April 1, 2025 13? Salary ?Salary (approximate annual salary)? Salary will be determined in accordance with university's regulations. ?Holidays? Based on the academic calendar ?Working hours? 9:00-18:50 Working hours of faculty will depend on research activities, among other duties, in addition to teaching duties specified in the ?Class Schedule?. Class hours are as follows: 1st period 9:00-10:40 2nd period 10:50-12:30 3rd period 13:30-15:10 4th period 15:20-17:00 5th Period 17:10-18:50 6th period 19:00-20:40 7th period 20:45-22:25 ?Retirement age? 70 years old (the first March 31 upon reaching the retirement age will be the date of retirement. ?Systems and Benefits? Promotion system, Bonus, Retirement allowance, Retirement age system, C ommute compensation ?Insurance?Health insurance, Employee pension insurance, and Unemployment insurance?Industrial workers compensation accident compensation insurance, etc. For further details, please contact the Human Resources Department at the university (045-481-5661). 14? Contact Human Resources, Office of University President, Kanagawa University Tel. 045-481-5661 E-mail?gaku-koubouyc at kanagawa-u.ac.jp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Nagoya International Film Festival and the Osaka International Film Festival all seemed like legitimate and sizeable film festivals, but the photos used on their webpages were taken from other festivals or events and the addresses were for film theaters in the locales that knew nothing of the festivals. Some of the filmmakers and actors who appeared in the photos-?which include some FB friends?warned people on SMS that they knew nothing of these festivals and protested their use, even noting some were doctored. The fact that some of the fonts used?as well as the Japanese utilized?were unusual gave some the impression this may be a non-Japanese group of scam artists trying to trick investors or filmmakers into paying to submit their works. The websites have been taken down, but one, the Hiroshima Short Film Festival, is still up, insisting that the complaints against it are mistaken. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/f4a52bc3b356021fd18bcb7e97d881a0b811323c Aaron Gerow Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University 320 York Street, Room 108 PO Box 208201 New Haven, CT 06520-8201 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jasper_sharp at hotmail.com Sun Aug 25 12:07:42 2024 From: jasper_sharp at hotmail.com (Jasper Sharp) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 16:07:42 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals In-Reply-To: <585C116B-DDA8-4C80-B712-FB1153AD6CEF@yale.edu> References: <585C116B-DDA8-4C80-B712-FB1153AD6CEF@yale.edu> Message-ID: Sadly an all too common phenomenon, especially since the advent some time ago now of online submission websites like Film Freeway where filmmakers pay a submission fee to various events of dubious legitimacy and find not only do their films not reach an audience, they don't reach critics or juries either. All you get in return for your money is a jpeg of some festival Laurels to add to your poster and promotional blurb. This has been going on for years, especially in North America, but also numerous small towns in the UK. I remember reading one such report in the Guardian about the Swansea Bay Film Festival as far back as 2011: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/27/swansea-bay-film-festival-disaster The object lesson here is if you can't get a film into an established film festival that has a reputation and a sizeable online presence, you probably shouldn't bother submitting. The Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films. The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing. "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times. "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter. "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian. ________________________________ From: KineJapan on behalf of Aaron Gerow via KineJapan Sent: 25 August 2024 01:38 To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Cc: Aaron Gerow Subject: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals There was much commotion this week as several film festivals "appeared" in Japan that were probably all fake. The Nagoya International Film Festival and the Osaka International Film Festival all seemed like legitimate and sizeable film festivals, but the photos used on their webpages were taken from other festivals or events and the addresses were for film theaters in the locales that knew nothing of the festivals. Some of the filmmakers and actors who appeared in the photos-?which include some FB friends?warned people on SMS that they knew nothing of these festivals and protested their use, even noting some were doctored. The fact that some of the fonts used?as well as the Japanese utilized?were unusual gave some the impression this may be a non-Japanese group of scam artists trying to trick investors or filmmakers into paying to submit their works. The websites have been taken down, but one, the Hiroshima Short Film Festival, is still up, insisting that the complaints against it are mistaken. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/f4a52bc3b356021fd18bcb7e97d881a0b811323c Aaron Gerow Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University 320 York Street, Room 108 PO Box 208201 New Haven, CT 06520-8201 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Warm wishes, Alastair Professor Alastair Phillips (he/him/his) Film and Television Studies School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures Faculty of Arts Building University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7EQ UK https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/film/staff/phillips/ ________________________________ From: KineJapan on behalf of kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu Sent: 25 August 2024 17:10 To: kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu Subject: KineJapan Digest, Vol 75, Issue 2 Send KineJapan mailing list submissions to kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu You can reach the person managing the list at kinejapan-owner at mailman.yale.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of KineJapan digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Asking Shochiku for cover photo image (Earl Jackson) 2. Fake film festivals (Aaron Gerow) 3. Re: Fake film festivals (Jasper Sharp) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 05:38:02 +0800 From: Earl Jackson To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Subject: [KineJapan] Asking Shochiku for cover photo image Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear Everyone, Does anyone know who and how to contact Shochiku for permission to use a still for a cover photo? Thank you in advance. Best, ej Earl Jackson Professor, Emeritus National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Associate Professor, Emeritus University of California, Santa Cruz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:38:19 -0400 From: Aaron Gerow To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Subject: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals Message-ID: <585C116B-DDA8-4C80-B712-FB1153AD6CEF at yale.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" There was much commotion this week as several film festivals "appeared" in Japan that were probably all fake. The Nagoya International Film Festival and the Osaka International Film Festival all seemed like legitimate and sizeable film festivals, but the photos used on their webpages were taken from other festivals or events and the addresses were for film theaters in the locales that knew nothing of the festivals. Some of the filmmakers and actors who appeared in the photos-?which include some FB friends?warned people on SMS that they knew nothing of these festivals and protested their use, even noting some were doctored. The fact that some of the fonts used?as well as the Japanese utilized?were unusual gave some the impression this may be a non-Japanese group of scam artists trying to trick investors or filmmakers into paying to submit their works. The websites have been taken down, but one, the Hiroshima Short Film Festival, is still up, insisting that the complaints against it ar e mistaken. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/f4a52bc3b356021fd18bcb7e97d881a0b811323c Aaron Gerow Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University 320 York Street, Room 108 PO Box 208201 New Haven, CT 06520-8201 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: http://www.aarongerow.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 16:07:42 +0000 From: Jasper Sharp To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Sadly an all too common phenomenon, especially since the advent some time ago now of online submission websites like Film Freeway where filmmakers pay a submission fee to various events of dubious legitimacy and find not only do their films not reach an audience, they don't reach critics or juries either. All you get in return for your money is a jpeg of some festival Laurels to add to your poster and promotional blurb. This has been going on for years, especially in North America, but also numerous small towns in the UK. I remember reading one such report in the Guardian about the Swansea Bay Film Festival as far back as 2011: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/27/swansea-bay-film-festival-disaster The object lesson here is if you can't get a film into an established film festival that has a reputation and a sizeable online presence, you probably shouldn't bother submitting. The Creeping Garden> - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films>. The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing>. "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times>. "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter>. "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian>. ________________________________ From: KineJapan on behalf of Aaron Gerow via KineJapan Sent: 25 August 2024 01:38 To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Cc: Aaron Gerow Subject: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals There was much commotion this week as several film festivals "appeared" in Japan that were probably all fake. The Nagoya International Film Festival and the Osaka International Film Festival all seemed like legitimate and sizeable film festivals, but the photos used on their webpages were taken from other festivals or events and the addresses were for film theaters in the locales that knew nothing of the festivals. Some of the filmmakers and actors who appeared in the photos-?which include some FB friends?warned people on SMS that they knew nothing of these festivals and protested their use, even noting some were doctored. The fact that some of the fonts used?as well as the Japanese utilized?were unusual gave some the impression this may be a non-Japanese group of scam artists trying to trick investors or filmmakers into paying to submit their works. The websites have been taken down, but one, the Hiroshima Short Film Festival, is still up, insisting that the complaints against it ar e mistaken. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/f4a52bc3b356021fd18bcb7e97d881a0b811323c Aaron Gerow Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University 320 York Street, Room 108 PO Box 208201 New Haven, CT 06520-8201 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: http://www.aarongerow.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, ej Earl Jackson Professor, Emeritus National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Associate Professor, Emeritus University of California, Santa Cruz On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 1:07?AM Phillips, Alastair via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Dear Earl, > > The person I have dealt with at Shochiku was Hosoda-san. > > This is their email: > > hitomi_hosoda at shochiku.co.jp > > Good luck! > > Warm wishes, > > Alastair > > Professor Alastair Phillips (he/him/his) > > Film and Television Studies > > School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures > > Faculty of Arts Building > University of Warwick > Coventry > CV4 7EQ > UK > > https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/film/staff/phillips/ > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* KineJapan on behalf of > kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu > *Sent:* 25 August 2024 17:10 > *To:* kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* KineJapan Digest, Vol 75, Issue 2 > > Send KineJapan mailing list submissions to > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > kinejapan-owner at mailman.yale.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of KineJapan digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Asking Shochiku for cover photo image (Earl Jackson) > 2. Fake film festivals (Aaron Gerow) > 3. Re: Fake film festivals (Jasper Sharp) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 05:38:02 +0800 > From: Earl Jackson > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > Subject: [KineJapan] Asking Shochiku for cover photo image > Message-ID: > < > CABhbz8Ow3wO3sJK5Cv8Tf2vb-ioxYawkHjPmFzCUc-0s9-c_Vg at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear Everyone, > Does anyone know who and how to contact Shochiku for permission to use a > still for a cover photo? > Thank you in advance. > Best, > ej > Earl Jackson > Professor, Emeritus > National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan > Associate Professor, Emeritus > University of California, Santa Cruz > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20240823/b3e660a3/attachment-0001.html > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:38:19 -0400 > From: Aaron Gerow > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > Subject: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals > Message-ID: <585C116B-DDA8-4C80-B712-FB1153AD6CEF at yale.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > There was much commotion this week as several film festivals "appeared" in > Japan that were probably all fake. The Nagoya International Film Festival > and the Osaka International Film Festival all seemed like legitimate and > sizeable film festivals, but the photos used on their webpages were taken > from other festivals or events and the addresses were for film theaters in > the locales that knew nothing of the festivals. Some of the filmmakers and > actors who appeared in the photos-?which include some FB friends?warned > people on SMS that they knew nothing of these festivals and protested their > use, even noting some were doctored. The fact that some of the fonts > used?as well as the Japanese utilized?were unusual gave some the impression > this may be a non-Japanese group of scam artists trying to trick investors > or filmmakers into paying to submit their works. The websites have been > taken down, but one, the Hiroshima Short Film Festival, is still up, > insisting that the complaints against it ar > e mistaken. > > > https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/f4a52bc3b356021fd18bcb7e97d881a0b811323c > > > > > > Aaron Gerow > Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and > Film and Media Studies > Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures > Yale University > 320 York Street, Room 108 > PO Box 208201 > New Haven, CT 06520-8201 > USA > Phone: 1-203-432-7082 > Fax: 1-203-432-6729 > e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu > website: > http://www.aarongerow.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20240824/4e19c72d/attachment-0001.html > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 16:07:42 +0000 > From: Jasper Sharp > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals > Message-ID: > < > LO2P265MB435097A1A8A9040BC0F9BC12F78A2 at LO2P265MB4350.GBRP265.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Sadly an all too common phenomenon, especially since the advent some time > ago now of online submission websites like Film Freeway where filmmakers > pay a submission fee to various events of dubious legitimacy and find not > only do their films not reach an audience, they don't reach critics or > juries either. All you get in return for your money is a jpeg of some > festival Laurels to add to your poster and promotional blurb. > This has been going on for years, especially in North America, but also > numerous small towns in the UK. I remember reading one such report in the > Guardian about the Swansea Bay Film Festival as far back as 2011: > https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/27/swansea-bay-film-festival-disaster > > > The object lesson here is if you can't get a film into an established film > festival that has a reputation and a sizeable online presence, you probably > shouldn't bother submitting. > > > The Creeping Garden< > http://www.creepinggarden.com/ > > - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story > about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim > Grabham and Jasper Sharp. > Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films< > https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435 > > >. > The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime > Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing< > http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/ > >. > "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", > Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times< > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html > > >. > "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter< > https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416 > > >. > "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian< > https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film > > >. > > ________________________________ > From: KineJapan on behalf of Aaron > Gerow via KineJapan > Sent: 25 August 2024 01:38 > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > Cc: Aaron Gerow > Subject: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals > > There was much commotion this week as several film festivals "appeared" in > Japan that were probably all fake. The Nagoya International Film Festival > and the Osaka International Film Festival all seemed like legitimate and > sizeable film festivals, but the photos used on their webpages were taken > from other festivals or events and the addresses were for film theaters in > the locales that knew nothing of the festivals. Some of the filmmakers and > actors who appeared in the photos-?which include some FB friends?warned > people on SMS that they knew nothing of these festivals and protested their > use, even noting some were doctored. The fact that some of the fonts > used?as well as the Japanese utilized?were unusual gave some the impression > this may be a non-Japanese group of scam artists trying to trick investors > or filmmakers into paying to submit their works. The websites have been > taken down, but one, the Hiroshima Short Film Festival, is still up, > insisting that the complaints against it ar > e mistaken. > > > https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/f4a52bc3b356021fd18bcb7e97d881a0b811323c > > > > > > Aaron Gerow > Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and > Film and Media Studies > Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures > Yale University > 320 York Street, Room 108 > PO Box 208201 > New Haven, CT 06520-8201 > USA > Phone: 1-203-432-7082 > Fax: 1-203-432-6729 > e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu > website: > http://www.aarongerow.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20240825/8a522b63/attachment.html > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > > ------------------------------ > > End of KineJapan Digest, Vol 75, Issue 2 > **************************************** > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Sun Aug 25 17:29:13 2024 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Aaron Gerow) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 17:29:13 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals In-Reply-To: References: <585C116B-DDA8-4C80-B712-FB1153AD6CEF@yale.edu> Message-ID: Thanks, Jasper. Searching online, it seems people are making a distinction between fake film festivals and pseudo film festivals. The latter is like the ones you mention, which do things like give everyone an award but make you pay for it, barely do any screenings, etc. But they do exist and they do something, though nothing like a full fledged film festival. The former, however, only take entry fees and then disappear. A total scam. These seem to be increasing in number since COVID. There are now a number of guides online on how to spot fake and pseudo film festivals. Aaron Gerow > 8/25/24 ??12:07?Jasper Sharp ????: > > Sadly an all too common phenomenon, especially since the advent some time ago now of online submission websites like Film Freeway where filmmakers pay a submission fee to various events of dubious legitimacy and find not only do their films not reach an audience, they don't reach critics or juries either. All you get in return for your money is a jpeg of some festival Laurels to add to your poster and promotional blurb. > This has been going on for years, especially in North America, but also numerous small towns in the UK. I remember reading one such report in the Guardian about the Swansea Bay Film Festival as far back as 2011:https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/27/swansea-bay-film-festival-disaster > > The object lesson here is if you can't get a film into an established film festival that has a reputation and a sizeable online presence, you probably shouldn't bother submitting. > > > The Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. > Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films . > The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing . > "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times . > "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter . > "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nornes at umich.edu Sun Aug 25 19:22:42 2024 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:22:42 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals In-Reply-To: References: <585C116B-DDA8-4C80-B712-FB1153AD6CEF@yale.edu> Message-ID: While this is all fascinating, I think there is a more fundamental issue at hand. The festival circuit is huge now. Every little community has a film festival. They are all on the Freeway and they all charge people for entries. Even the little tiny ones. However, if you?re a famous filmmaker or a friend of the programmers, you can tapped directly and they often wave the fees. It is ridiculously expensive for independent filmmakers to break into festivals. Filmmakers need to craft their careers to ease into it. And filmmakers who know English go much further than anyone else because of it. Some years ago the Ann Arbor Film Festival fired its programmer, partly because he was letting all this friends into the festival free but charging everyone else for submission (and not everyone was being properly viewed?typical, I suspect). To their credit, the Ann Arbor Film Festival has a code of ethics and operates in a righteously transparent way. Check this out . ) I think these fake festivals are insignificant compared to the real festivals that don?t actually give their (paid) submissions a fair shake. A personal example: our film The Big House showed around the world at many festivals and got distribution across Japan. If I submitted the film to the same festivals, I doubt they?d pick it up. But Soda?s name was attached and he could directly contact the festivals he?s already participated in?.. Markus > On Aug 25, 2024, at 5:29?PM, Aaron Gerow via KineJapan wrote: > > Thanks, Jasper. Searching online, it seems people are making a distinction between fake film festivals and pseudo film festivals. The latter is like the ones you mention, which do things like give everyone an award but make you pay for it, barely do any screenings, etc. But they do exist and they do something, though nothing like a full fledged film festival. The former, however, only take entry fees and then disappear. A total scam. These seem to be increasing in number since COVID. There are now a number of guides online on how to spot fake and pseudo film festivals. > > Aaron Gerow > >> 8/25/24 ??12:07?Jasper Sharp ????: >> >> Sadly an all too common phenomenon, especially since the advent some time ago now of online submission websites like Film Freeway where filmmakers pay a submission fee to various events of dubious legitimacy and find not only do their films not reach an audience, they don't reach critics or juries either. All you get in return for your money is a jpeg of some festival Laurels to add to your poster and promotional blurb. >> This has been going on for years, especially in North America, but also numerous small towns in the UK. I remember reading one such report in the Guardian about the Swansea Bay Film Festival as far back as 2011:https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/27/swansea-bay-film-festival-disaster >> >> The object lesson here is if you can't get a film into an established film festival that has a reputation and a sizeable online presence, you probably shouldn't bother submitting. >> >> >> The Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. >> Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films . >> The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing . >> "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times . >> "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter . >> "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian . > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eija at helsinkicineaasia.fi Mon Aug 26 01:38:41 2024 From: eija at helsinkicineaasia.fi (Eija Niskanen) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:38:41 +0300 Subject: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals In-Reply-To: References: <585C116B-DDA8-4C80-B712-FB1153AD6CEF@yale.edu> Message-ID: We at Helsinki Cine Aasia film festival get often emails from Freeway and other similar, who promise to provide us with films. We have absolutely no need for that, as we select our program ourselves by going to Busan film festival, Tokyo Film Festival, Filmex and Berlinale or such. We also have good contacts to for ex.- Japanese distributors and they can be contacted and asked for screener links. I have no idea why any proper festival would need this in-betweener. Eija ma 26. elok. 2024 klo 2.22 Markus Nornes via KineJapan ( kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu) kirjoitti: > While this is all fascinating, I think there is a more fundamental issue > at hand. The festival circuit is huge now. Every little community has a > film festival. They are all on the Freeway and they all charge people for > entries. Even the little tiny ones. However, if you?re a famous filmmaker > or a friend of the programmers, you can tapped directly and they often wave > the fees. It is ridiculously expensive for independent filmmakers to break > into festivals. Filmmakers need to craft their careers to ease into it. And > filmmakers who know English go much further than anyone else because of it. > Some years ago the Ann Arbor Film Festival fired its programmer, partly > because he was letting all this friends into the festival free but charging > everyone else for submission (and not everyone was being properly > viewed?typical, I suspect). To their credit, the Ann Arbor Film Festival > has a code of ethics and operates in a righteously transparent way. Check > this out . ) I think > these fake festivals are insignificant compared to the real festivals that > don?t actually give their (paid) submissions a fair shake. > > A personal example: our film *The Big House *showed around the world at > many festivals and got distribution across Japan. If I submitted the film > to the same festivals, I doubt they?d pick it up. But Soda?s name was > attached and he could directly contact the festivals he?s already > participated in?.. > > Markus > > > > On Aug 25, 2024, at 5:29?PM, Aaron Gerow via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > > Thanks, Jasper. Searching online, it seems people are making a distinction > between fake film festivals and pseudo film festivals. The latter is like > the ones you mention, which do things like give everyone an award but make > you pay for it, barely do any screenings, etc. But they do exist and they > do something, though nothing like a full fledged film festival. The former, > however, only take entry fees and then disappear. A total scam. These seem > to be increasing in number since COVID. There are now a number of guides > online on how to spot fake and pseudo film festivals. > > Aaron Gerow > > 8/25/24 ??12:07?Jasper Sharp ????: > > Sadly an all too common phenomenon, especially since the advent some time > ago now of online submission websites like Film Freeway where filmmakers > pay a submission fee to various events of dubious legitimacy and find not > only do their films not reach an audience, they don't reach critics or > juries either. All you get in return for your money is a jpeg of some > festival Laurels to add to your poster and promotional blurb. > This has been going on for years, especially in North America, but also > numerous small towns in the UK. I remember reading one such report in the > Guardian about the Swansea Bay Film Festival as far back as 2011: > https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/27/swansea-bay-film-festival-disaster > > The object lesson here is if you can't get a film into an established film > festival that has a reputation and a sizeable online presence, you probably > shouldn't bother submitting. > > > *The Creeping Garden * - A Real-Life > Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, > directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. > Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films > > . > The book, *The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial > Slime Moulds *is out now from Alchimia Publishing > . > "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", > Nicolas Rapold, *The New York Times > * > . > "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, *Hollywood Reporter > * > . > "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, *The Guardian > * > . > > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -- Eija Niskanen Programming director Helsinki Cine Aasia, March 14.-17.2024 www.helsinkicineaasia.fi +358-50-355 3189 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From t112x at yahoo.com Mon Aug 26 01:49:05 2024 From: t112x at yahoo.com (Thomas Ball) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:49:05 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals In-Reply-To: References: <585C116B-DDA8-4C80-B712-FB1153AD6CEF@yale.edu> Message-ID: <207693288.12082287.1724651345762@mail.yahoo.com> It's worth noting the proliferation of, not just fake film festivals, but also fake conferences, fake CFPs, fake universities, fake anything that can be faked and monetized to unethically procure IP, identity, you name it. Thomas B On Monday, August 26, 2024 at 12:41:40 PM GMT+7, Eija Niskanen via KineJapan wrote: We at Helsinki Cine Aasia film festival get often emails from Freeway and other similar, who promise to provide us with films. We have absolutely no need for that, as we select our program ourselves by going to Busan film festival, Tokyo Film Festival, Filmex and Berlinale or such. We also have good contacts?to for ex.- Japanese distributors and they can be contacted and asked for screener links.? I have no idea why any proper festival would need this in-betweener.Eija ma 26. elok. 2024 klo 2.22 Markus Nornes via KineJapan (kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu) kirjoitti: While this is all fascinating, I think there is a more fundamental issue at hand. The festival circuit is huge now. Every little community has a film festival. They are all on the Freeway and they all charge people for entries. Even the little tiny ones. However, if you?re a famous filmmaker or a friend of the programmers, you can tapped directly and they often wave the fees. It is ridiculously expensive for independent filmmakers to break into festivals. Filmmakers need to craft their careers to ease into it. And filmmakers who know English go much further than anyone else because of it. Some years ago the Ann Arbor Film Festival fired its programmer, partly because he was letting all this friends into the festival free but charging everyone else for submission (and not everyone was being properly viewed?typical, I suspect). To their credit, the Ann Arbor Film Festival has a code of ethics and operates in a righteously transparent way.?Check this out. ) I think these fake festivals are insignificant compared to the real festivals that don?t actually give their (paid) submissions a fair shake. ? A personal example: our film The Big House showed around the world at many festivals and got distribution across Japan. If I submitted the film to the same festivals, I doubt they?d pick it up. But Soda?s name was attached and he could directly contact the festivals he?s already participated in?.. Markus On Aug 25, 2024, at 5:29?PM, Aaron Gerow via KineJapan wrote: Thanks, Jasper. Searching online, it seems people are making a distinction between fake film festivals and pseudo film festivals. The latter is like the ones you mention, which do things like give everyone an award but make you pay for it, barely do any screenings, etc. But they do exist and they do something, though nothing like a full fledged film festival. The former, however, only take entry fees and then disappear. A total scam. These seem to be increasing in number since COVID. There are now a number of guides online on how to spot fake and pseudo film festivals.? Aaron Gerow 8/25/24 ??12:07?Jasper Sharp ????: Sadly an all too common phenomenon, especially since the advent some time ago now of online submission websites like Film Freeway where filmmakers pay a submission fee to various events of dubious legitimacy and find not only do their films not reach an audience, they don't reach critics or juries either. All you get in return for your money is a jpeg of some festival Laurels to add to your poster and promotional blurb.This has been going on for years, especially in North America, but also numerous small towns in the UK. I remember reading one such report in the Guardian about the Swansea Bay Film Festival as far back as 2011:https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/27/swansea-bay-film-festival-disaster The object lesson here is if you can't get a film into an established film festival that has a reputation and a sizeable online presence, you probably shouldn't bother submitting. The Creeping Garden?-?A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.?Available now on Dual-Format?Blu-ray/DVD?from?Arrow Films.The book,?The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds?is?out?now from?Alchimia Publishing."A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold,?The New York Times."An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore,?Hollywood Reporter."Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw,?The Guardian. _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -- Eija NiskanenProgramming directorHelsinki Cine Aasia, March 14.-17.2024www.helsinkicineaasia.fi +358-50-355 3189 _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From novielli at unive.it Mon Aug 26 01:58:12 2024 From: novielli at unive.it (Maria Roberta Novielli) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 07:58:12 +0200 Subject: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals In-Reply-To: <207693288.12082287.1724651345762@mail.yahoo.com> References: <585C116B-DDA8-4C80-B712-FB1153AD6CEF@yale.edu> <207693288.12082287.1724651345762@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: For our Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival I have been using Filmfreeway for years. We do not charge a fee and I receive around 3000 short films annually, guaranteeing a very high quality selection for our competitions. However, I know of other festivals that have decided to charge symbolic fees precisely to receive fewer submissions. Roberta Il giorno lun 26 ago 2024 alle ore 07:49 Thomas Ball via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> ha scritto: > It's worth noting the proliferation of, not just fake film festivals, but > also fake conferences, fake CFPs, fake universities, fake anything that can > be faked and monetized to unethically procure IP, identity, you name it. > Thomas B > > On Monday, August 26, 2024 at 12:41:40 PM GMT+7, Eija Niskanen via > KineJapan wrote: > > > We at Helsinki Cine Aasia film festival get often emails from Freeway and > other similar, who promise to provide us with films. We have absolutely no > need for that, as we select our program ourselves by going to Busan film > festival, Tokyo Film Festival, Filmex and Berlinale or such. We also have > good contacts to for ex.- Japanese distributors and they can be contacted > and asked for screener links. > I have no idea why any proper festival would need this in-betweener. > Eija > > ma 26. elok. 2024 klo 2.22 Markus Nornes via KineJapan ( > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu) kirjoitti: > > While this is all fascinating, I think there is a more fundamental issue > at hand. The festival circuit is huge now. Every little community has a > film festival. They are all on the Freeway and they all charge people for > entries. Even the little tiny ones. However, if you?re a famous filmmaker > or a friend of the programmers, you can tapped directly and they often wave > the fees. It is ridiculously expensive for independent filmmakers to break > into festivals. Filmmakers need to craft their careers to ease into it. And > filmmakers who know English go much further than anyone else because of it. > Some years ago the Ann Arbor Film Festival fired its programmer, partly > because he was letting all this friends into the festival free but charging > everyone else for submission (and not everyone was being properly > viewed?typical, I suspect). To their credit, the Ann Arbor Film Festival > has a code of ethics and operates in a righteously transparent way. Check > this out . ) I think > these fake festivals are insignificant compared to the real festivals that > don?t actually give their (paid) submissions a fair shake. > > A personal example: our film *The Big House *showed around the world at > many festivals and got distribution across Japan. If I submitted the film > to the same festivals, I doubt they?d pick it up. But Soda?s name was > attached and he could directly contact the festivals he?s already > participated in?.. > > Markus > > > > On Aug 25, 2024, at 5:29?PM, Aaron Gerow via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > > Thanks, Jasper. Searching online, it seems people are making a distinction > between fake film festivals and pseudo film festivals. The latter is like > the ones you mention, which do things like give everyone an award but make > you pay for it, barely do any screenings, etc. But they do exist and they > do something, though nothing like a full fledged film festival. The former, > however, only take entry fees and then disappear. A total scam. These seem > to be increasing in number since COVID. There are now a number of guides > online on how to spot fake and pseudo film festivals. > > Aaron Gerow > > 8/25/24 ??12:07?Jasper Sharp ????: > > Sadly an all too common phenomenon, especially since the advent some time > ago now of online submission websites like Film Freeway where filmmakers > pay a submission fee to various events of dubious legitimacy and find not > only do their films not reach an audience, they don't reach critics or > juries either. All you get in return for your money is a jpeg of some > festival Laurels to add to your poster and promotional blurb. > This has been going on for years, especially in North America, but also > numerous small towns in the UK. I remember reading one such report in the > Guardian about the Swansea Bay Film Festival as far back as 2011: > https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/27/swansea-bay-film-festival-disaster > > The object lesson here is if you can't get a film into an established film > festival that has a reputation and a sizeable online presence, you probably > shouldn't bother submitting. > > > *The Creeping Garden * - A Real-Life > Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, > directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. > Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films > > . > The book, *The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial > Slime Moulds *is out now from Alchimia Publishing > . > "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", > Nicolas Rapold, *The New York Times > * > . > "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, *Hollywood Reporter > * > . > "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, *The Guardian > * > . > > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > > -- > Eija Niskanen > Programming director > Helsinki Cine Aasia, March 14.-17.2024 > www.helsinkicineaasia.fi > +358-50-355 3189 > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -- Prof. Maria Roberta Novielli History of cinema and animation Artistic Direction - Overall Organization Ca? Foscari Short Film Festival http://cafoscarishort.unive.it Director Master in Fine Arts in Filmmaking *https://www.cafoscarichallengeschool.it/master/ * Ca' Foscari University - Venice Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage Palazzo Malcanton-Marcor? Dorsoduro 3484/d 30123 VENICE e mail: novielli at unive.it cafoscarishort at unive.it Phone. +39 041 2346244 Fax. +39 041 2346210 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eija at helsinkicineaasia.fi Mon Aug 26 05:52:34 2024 From: eija at helsinkicineaasia.fi (Eija Niskanen) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:52:34 +0300 Subject: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals In-Reply-To: <207693288.12082287.1724651345762@mail.yahoo.com> References: <585C116B-DDA8-4C80-B712-FB1153AD6CEF@yale.edu> <207693288.12082287.1724651345762@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I was just thinking of these fake conferences. Once I got a CFP for one in Tokyo, about culture, including Japanese cinema. I checked "keynote speakers" - could not recognize a single name, and I think I know by name the people who usually speak in these kind of events. Eija ma 26. elok. 2024 klo 8.49 Thomas Ball via KineJapan ( kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu) kirjoitti: > It's worth noting the proliferation of, not just fake film festivals, but > also fake conferences, fake CFPs, fake universities, fake anything that can > be faked and monetized to unethically procure IP, identity, you name it. > Thomas B > > On Monday, August 26, 2024 at 12:41:40 PM GMT+7, Eija Niskanen via > KineJapan wrote: > > > We at Helsinki Cine Aasia film festival get often emails from Freeway and > other similar, who promise to provide us with films. We have absolutely no > need for that, as we select our program ourselves by going to Busan film > festival, Tokyo Film Festival, Filmex and Berlinale or such. We also have > good contacts to for ex.- Japanese distributors and they can be contacted > and asked for screener links. > I have no idea why any proper festival would need this in-betweener. > Eija > > ma 26. elok. 2024 klo 2.22 Markus Nornes via KineJapan ( > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu) kirjoitti: > > While this is all fascinating, I think there is a more fundamental issue > at hand. The festival circuit is huge now. Every little community has a > film festival. They are all on the Freeway and they all charge people for > entries. Even the little tiny ones. However, if you?re a famous filmmaker > or a friend of the programmers, you can tapped directly and they often wave > the fees. It is ridiculously expensive for independent filmmakers to break > into festivals. Filmmakers need to craft their careers to ease into it. And > filmmakers who know English go much further than anyone else because of it. > Some years ago the Ann Arbor Film Festival fired its programmer, partly > because he was letting all this friends into the festival free but charging > everyone else for submission (and not everyone was being properly > viewed?typical, I suspect). To their credit, the Ann Arbor Film Festival > has a code of ethics and operates in a righteously transparent way. Check > this out . ) I think > these fake festivals are insignificant compared to the real festivals that > don?t actually give their (paid) submissions a fair shake. > > A personal example: our film *The Big House *showed around the world at > many festivals and got distribution across Japan. If I submitted the film > to the same festivals, I doubt they?d pick it up. But Soda?s name was > attached and he could directly contact the festivals he?s already > participated in?.. > > Markus > > > > On Aug 25, 2024, at 5:29?PM, Aaron Gerow via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > > Thanks, Jasper. Searching online, it seems people are making a distinction > between fake film festivals and pseudo film festivals. The latter is like > the ones you mention, which do things like give everyone an award but make > you pay for it, barely do any screenings, etc. But they do exist and they > do something, though nothing like a full fledged film festival. The former, > however, only take entry fees and then disappear. A total scam. These seem > to be increasing in number since COVID. There are now a number of guides > online on how to spot fake and pseudo film festivals. > > Aaron Gerow > > 8/25/24 ??12:07?Jasper Sharp ????: > > Sadly an all too common phenomenon, especially since the advent some time > ago now of online submission websites like Film Freeway where filmmakers > pay a submission fee to various events of dubious legitimacy and find not > only do their films not reach an audience, they don't reach critics or > juries either. All you get in return for your money is a jpeg of some > festival Laurels to add to your poster and promotional blurb. > This has been going on for years, especially in North America, but also > numerous small towns in the UK. I remember reading one such report in the > Guardian about the Swansea Bay Film Festival as far back as 2011: > https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/27/swansea-bay-film-festival-disaster > > The object lesson here is if you can't get a film into an established film > festival that has a reputation and a sizeable online presence, you probably > shouldn't bother submitting. > > > *The Creeping Garden * - A Real-Life > Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, > directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. > Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films > > . > The book, *The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial > Slime Moulds *is out now from Alchimia Publishing > . > "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", > Nicolas Rapold, *The New York Times > * > . > "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, *Hollywood Reporter > * > . > "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, *The Guardian > * > . > > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > > -- > Eija Niskanen > Programming director > Helsinki Cine Aasia, March 14.-17.2024 > www.helsinkicineaasia.fi > +358-50-355 3189 > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -- Eija Niskanen Programming director Helsinki Cine Aasia, March 14.-17.2024 www.helsinkicineaasia.fi +358-50-355 3189 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nornes at umich.edu Mon Aug 26 19:53:10 2024 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 19:53:10 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] YIDFF Interviews Message-ID: I've been meaning to write this message for a while. Every year since the beginning, Yamagata has conducted interviews with filmmakers. The first ones were for the Ogawa Pro film on the first fest, *Eiga no miyako. * Some years are more elaborate than others. This is a pretty serious year, with interviews edited by Ono Seiko. She's one of the original programmers of the festival. Here's the page with all the interviews, bilingual?just as you'd expect with Yamagata. https://www.yidff.jp/interviews/2023/23i-e.html Japanese filmmakers include: Maeda Shinjiro: his *"hibi" AUG* is a very nice structural/diary experimental diary. Read up, and you'll see what I mean by structural. It's in the tradition of hard core directors that set limits on their film and let predetermined structures guide their production. Interview by Murayama Kyoichiro. Oda Kaori: *GAMA* is part of a larger work Oda is shooting entirely underground, this piece in the caves where Okinawa's committed suicide. I liked it, especially for the fascinating approach to storytelling. There's a dance element that caused some discussion; some people hated it for that. Interview by Erikawa Ken. Kurobe Shunsuke: *Nihonbara Diary* is about cattlemen that live next to an army base. Hatano Shuhei: Radiance is a diary film shot during the pandemic. Another structural film of sorts, but one with soul. Lovely film. Okawa Keiko: *Oasis* is trying to be a video version of Cartier-Bresson street photography?on bikes. I didn't find it that surprising. Interview by Kato Itaru. Doi Toshikuni: *Tsushima: Fukushima Speaks 2 *is a 3 hour film about a district in Namie that had to evacuate. Long form interview film. Gives a sense for the state of 311 docs these days. There are fewer and fewer, as you'd imagine. But Yamagata continues to have a sidebar to keep it in people's memories. Interview by Oshita Yumi. Komori Haruka: Radio Shimo-Kajiro: The Songs that Led Us Here Today is about a radio station in Fukushima. As with Komori's other films, the subjects are charming. The context is tragic. There's a power to that. I wish she paid more attention to the photography. I'm too snobby to easily deal with the wrong white balance in films. Interview by Kawakami Atiqa. Inoue Minoru: His Men with Movie Cameras?Shooting the Great Kanto Earthquake is televisual in style, but does share the scientific, data-driven perspective of Ogawa's rice films and Tsuchimoto's science film. Here he collects all the footage of the Kanto earthquake he could find. And there's a lot of new footage people haven't seen because the Film Archive just had a big project for it's 100th anniversary. Inoue figures out the path that the photographers followed through the rubble. And he recreates it with the help of Planet Archive, which lent him the same camera Shirai Shigeru hauled everywhere. It's interesting. And the subject is a key moment in the history of Japanese documentary. I did this interview. Sora Neo: Opus . This is another interview I conducted. It was the most pleasurable interview I've ever done. Neo is an interesting guy. He's mainly interested in making features, but as Sakamoto's son he was positioned to make this special film. A kind of last testament by a musician who knows it might be his last. One of the "fundamental tendencies" of documentary that Renov identifies is "to record, to preserve." This is profoundly pushing this aspect of documentary, perhaps to the limit. As I discovered at the end of the interview, Sakamoto was into technology so he was using a special system developed by Yamaha that not only records the notes he uses on a piano, but also the timing *and the pressure. Opus* could be staged at any time by a swank player piano that literally reproduces Sakamoto's performance. Also, the film is stunningly beautiful and very touching. I heard some people dismiss the film; I feel sorry for them. I love that Yamagata does this kind of thing. It's one of the many things that makes them special. Markus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raphaelleyokota at gmail.com Thu Aug 29 01:56:17 2024 From: raphaelleyokota at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Rapha=C3=ABlle_Yokota?=) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 07:56:17 +0200 Subject: [KineJapan] Contacting BunBuku for permission to use stills Message-ID: Dear Everyone, Does anyone know how to contact Kore-eda Hirokazu's team for permission to use stills for a book (to be published in France)? I tried reaching out directly to Bunbuku several times, as well as his distributors in France, with no success. 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