[KineJapan] KineJapan Digest, Vol 75, Issue 2

Sun Aug 25 16:26:30 EDT 2024

Dear Alistair,
Thank you very much!
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,
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> The person I have dealt with at Shochiku was Hosoda-san.
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> This is their email:
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> hitomi_hosoda at shochiku.co.jp
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> Good luck!
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> Warm wishes,
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> Alastair
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> Professor Alastair Phillips (he/him/his)
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> Film and Television Studies
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> School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures
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> Faculty of Arts Building
> University of Warwick
> Coventry
> CV4 7EQ
> UK
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> https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/film/staff/phillips/
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>    1. Asking Shochiku for cover photo image (Earl Jackson)
>    2. Fake film festivals (Aaron Gerow)
>    3. Re: Fake film festivals (Jasper Sharp)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 05:38:02 +0800
> From: Earl Jackson <earljac at gmail.com>
> To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> Subject: [KineJapan] Asking Shochiku for cover photo image
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> 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
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> From: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
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> 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
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> 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
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> From: Jasper Sharp <jasper_sharp at hotmail.com>
> To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals
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> 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
> <https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/27/swansea-bay-film-festival-disaster>
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> 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.
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> The Creeping Garden<
> http://www.creepinggarden.com/
> <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
> <https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435>
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> The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime
> Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing<
> http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/
> <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
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> "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter<
> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416
> <https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>
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> "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian<
> https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film
> <https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>
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> From: KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of Aaron
> Gerow via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> Sent: 25 August 2024 01:38
> To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> Cc: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> Subject: [KineJapan] Fake film festivals
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> 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.
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> https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/f4a52bc3b356021fd18bcb7e97d881a0b811323c
> <https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/f4a52bc3b356021fd18bcb7e97d881a0b811323c>
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> 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/
> <http://www.aarongerow.com/>
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