The Skip City International D-Cinema Festival 2024 will celebrate its 21st edition from July 13th (Sat) to 21st (Sun), 2024 for 9 days at Skip City, which is an integrated institution for digital cinema production.
(See: https://www.skipcity-dcf.jp/en/)
Submission period: January 31st, 2024 (Wed) – March 1st, 2024 (Fri)
Skip City International D-Cinema Festival remains committed to discovering and nurturing new talent, with the aim of helping these filmmakers seize new business opportunities that have arisen in the changing landscape of the film industry. Now calling for works (60 min. or longer) that have been shot digitally and must be the director's 1st, 2nd, or 3rd feature film from all over the world for the International Competition section.
Call for entries for the International Competition!!
Entry Deadline: Must be received by March 1st, 2024 (Fri)
Submit via FilmFreeway
https://filmfreeway.com/Skipcityinternationald-CinemaFESTIVAL (Online registration / Free)
All nominated films in competition categories are eligible for the Festival Organizers awards.
(See: https://www.skipcity-dcf.jp/en/)
Submission period: January 31st, 2024 (Wed) – March 1st, 2024 (Fri)
Skip City International D-Cinema Festival remains committed to discovering and nurturing new talent, with the aim of helping these filmmakers seize new business opportunities that have arisen in the changing landscape of the film industry. Now calling for works (60 min. or longer) that have been shot digitally and must be the director's 1st, 2nd, or 3rd feature film from all over the world for the International Competition section.
Call for entries for the International Competition!!
Entry Deadline: Must be received by March 1st, 2024 (Fri)
Submit via FilmFreeway
https://filmfreeway.com/Skipcityinternationald-CinemaFESTIVAL (Online registration / Free)
All nominated films in competition categories are eligible for the Festival Organizers awards.
- 2/2/2024
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Stan Refreshes Lionsgate Output Deal
Australian streamer Stan has refreshed its output deal with Lionsgate. The new agreement means Stan lands the local first-run of shows including the upcoming CIA thriller series Gray, starring Patricia Clarkson, Lydia West and Rupert Everett. Also on the menu are Son of a Critch, Welcome to Flatch and Steven K. Knight’s Spartacus sequel series. Theatrical features include White Bird, Alice and Darling. Stan will remain the Aussie home of the Power franchise, The Serpent Queen, Minx, Bmf, Gaslit and Hightown and also picks up Lionsgate catalog titles such as Mad Men, Weeds, The Spanish Princess, Black Sails, La La Land and Twilight.
Indigenous Canadian Stand-Up Show Readied
Exclusive: Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and the Canada Media Fund are among the backers of a comedy TV series billed as the first all-Canadian and Indigenous stand-up show. They have signed on to develop...
Australian streamer Stan has refreshed its output deal with Lionsgate. The new agreement means Stan lands the local first-run of shows including the upcoming CIA thriller series Gray, starring Patricia Clarkson, Lydia West and Rupert Everett. Also on the menu are Son of a Critch, Welcome to Flatch and Steven K. Knight’s Spartacus sequel series. Theatrical features include White Bird, Alice and Darling. Stan will remain the Aussie home of the Power franchise, The Serpent Queen, Minx, Bmf, Gaslit and Hightown and also picks up Lionsgate catalog titles such as Mad Men, Weeds, The Spanish Princess, Black Sails, La La Land and Twilight.
Indigenous Canadian Stand-Up Show Readied
Exclusive: Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and the Canada Media Fund are among the backers of a comedy TV series billed as the first all-Canadian and Indigenous stand-up show. They have signed on to develop...
- 6/19/2023
- by Jesse Whittock, Max Goldbart and Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
French filmmaker Antonin Peretjatko is set to sink his teeth into his fourth feature film and he lassoed some alumni for Vade retro (formerly known as Le vampire du soleil levant). Laure Calamy will topline with players William Lebghil and Vimala Pons in the mix. Lebghil was in Peretjatko’s sophomore feature and Pons was in his first pair of films including his debut The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu (a Directors’ Fortnight selection back in 2013). Vade retro landed some early Cnc support three years back. Comme des cinémas’ Masa Sawada (Kôji Fukada Love Life) is producing the project which will move into production in September.…...
- 6/14/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Japanese director Kôji Fukada’s drama Love Life.
The film world premiered in Competition in Venice last year (you can check out the Deadline reveal of a first clip here) and went on to play at multiple festivals including Toronto and London.
The acquisition announcement followed hot on the heels of news that the film had been selected for the Museum of The Moving Images (MoMI) First Look Festival, running in New York from March 15 to 19.
Oscilloscope will release the film this year.
The film stars Fumino Kimura as Taeko, a woman living a peaceful life with her husband (Kento Nagayama) and young son.
A tragic accident brings Taeko’s ex-husband, who is the father of her son, back into her life. He is deaf, down on his luck and homeless. To deal with her own pain and guilt, she throws herself into helping him out,...
The film world premiered in Competition in Venice last year (you can check out the Deadline reveal of a first clip here) and went on to play at multiple festivals including Toronto and London.
The acquisition announcement followed hot on the heels of news that the film had been selected for the Museum of The Moving Images (MoMI) First Look Festival, running in New York from March 15 to 19.
Oscilloscope will release the film this year.
The film stars Fumino Kimura as Taeko, a woman living a peaceful life with her husband (Kento Nagayama) and young son.
A tragic accident brings Taeko’s ex-husband, who is the father of her son, back into her life. He is deaf, down on his luck and homeless. To deal with her own pain and guilt, she throws herself into helping him out,...
- 2/10/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
We are happy to announce that the Skip City International D-Cinema Festival 2023 will celebrate its 20th anniversary edition from July 15th (Sat) to 23th (Sun), 2023 for 9 days at Skip City, which is an integrated institution for digital cinema production
(See: https://www.skipcity-dcf.jp/en/)
Submission period: January 25th, 2023 (Wed) – March 1st, 2023 (Wed)
We remain committed to discovering and nurturing new talent, with the aim of helping these filmmakers seize new business opportunities that have arisen in the changing landscape of the film industry. Now we call for works (60 min. or longer) that have been shot digitally and must be the director’s 1st, 2nd, or 3rd feature film from all over the world for the International Competition section.
Call for entries for the International Competition!!
Entry Deadline: Must be received by March 1st, 2023 (Wed)
Submit via FilmFreeway
https://filmfreeway.com/Skipcityinternationald-CinemaFESTIVAL (Online registration / Free)
Our International Competition welcomes you!
(See: https://www.skipcity-dcf.jp/en/)
Submission period: January 25th, 2023 (Wed) – March 1st, 2023 (Wed)
We remain committed to discovering and nurturing new talent, with the aim of helping these filmmakers seize new business opportunities that have arisen in the changing landscape of the film industry. Now we call for works (60 min. or longer) that have been shot digitally and must be the director’s 1st, 2nd, or 3rd feature film from all over the world for the International Competition section.
Call for entries for the International Competition!!
Entry Deadline: Must be received by March 1st, 2023 (Wed)
Submit via FilmFreeway
https://filmfreeway.com/Skipcityinternationald-CinemaFESTIVAL (Online registration / Free)
Our International Competition welcomes you!
- 1/25/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The boxing dreams drama is fifth fiction feature by Japanese director Shô Miyake who was last in Berlin in 2019.
Paris-based sales company Charades has boarded Japanese director Shô Miyake’s drama Small Slow But Steady ahead of its premiere in the Encounters section of the Berlinale.
Yukino Kishii stars as a hearing-impaired young woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer. The Covid-19 pandemic combined with the threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president (played by Tomokazu Miura), who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.
Miyake, whose career spans fiction,...
Paris-based sales company Charades has boarded Japanese director Shô Miyake’s drama Small Slow But Steady ahead of its premiere in the Encounters section of the Berlinale.
Yukino Kishii stars as a hearing-impaired young woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer. The Covid-19 pandemic combined with the threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president (played by Tomokazu Miura), who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.
Miyake, whose career spans fiction,...
- 1/19/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Anshul Chauhan’s Kontora won best picture in the feature film category of the Japanese Film Competition.
Maria Sodahl’s Hope received the Grand Prize in the International Competition of this year’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival in Japan, which took place virtually and wrapped on October 4.
The Norway-Sweden co-production, which is based on the director’s own experiences, tells the story of a woman with six children waiting to receive a cancer diagnosis. “I thought the director herself is asking the question of ‘living’ by snuggling up with the protagonist,” said Japanese filmmaker Masa Sawada, who served as jury president.
Maria Sodahl’s Hope received the Grand Prize in the International Competition of this year’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival in Japan, which took place virtually and wrapped on October 4.
The Norway-Sweden co-production, which is based on the director’s own experiences, tells the story of a woman with six children waiting to receive a cancer diagnosis. “I thought the director herself is asking the question of ‘living’ by snuggling up with the protagonist,” said Japanese filmmaker Masa Sawada, who served as jury president.
- 10/5/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Nikkatsu, Commes des Cinemas, Kaninga team on Koji Fukada project.
Japan’s Nikkatsu Corporation is teaming with France’s Commes des Cinemas and Indonesia’s Kaninga Pictures to co-produce Koji Fukada’s new project The Man From The Sea.
Nikkatsu is also handling international sales on the film, which will be filmed entirely in Indonesia with production scheduled to start this summer. Indonesian production outfit Palari Films, headed by Meiske Taurisia (Postcards From The Zoo) and Muhammad Zaidy, is on board as the local production partner.
Fukada, who won the jury prize in Un Certain Regard last year for Harmonium [pictured], was inspired to write The Man From The Sea when he visited Indonesia in 2012.
The story follows a man who is found washed up on a beach in Banda Aceh, Indonesia suffering from amnesia and speaking in broken Indonesian and Japanese.
“Fukada’s original screenplay digs deep into universal themes and will again touch people all over...
Japan’s Nikkatsu Corporation is teaming with France’s Commes des Cinemas and Indonesia’s Kaninga Pictures to co-produce Koji Fukada’s new project The Man From The Sea.
Nikkatsu is also handling international sales on the film, which will be filmed entirely in Indonesia with production scheduled to start this summer. Indonesian production outfit Palari Films, headed by Meiske Taurisia (Postcards From The Zoo) and Muhammad Zaidy, is on board as the local production partner.
Fukada, who won the jury prize in Un Certain Regard last year for Harmonium [pictured], was inspired to write The Man From The Sea when he visited Indonesia in 2012.
The story follows a man who is found washed up on a beach in Banda Aceh, Indonesia suffering from amnesia and speaking in broken Indonesian and Japanese.
“Fukada’s original screenplay digs deep into universal themes and will again touch people all over...
- 5/18/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Japan’s new promotional initiative, Japan Day Project, is launching a seminar series, ‘New Gateways to the Japanese Industry’ (May 16-18), at this year’s Cannes film festival.
Speakers including producers Masa Sawada (An, Journey To The Shore) and Samuel Hadida (Silent Hill) and Filosophia founder Tetsu Fujimura will share strategies for doing business with Japan.
The speaker line-up also includes casting director Yoko Narahashi and Cork, Inc co-founder Yuma Terada, who manages Japanese writers and manga artists.
Seminar topics include sourcing Japanese talent for international productions, co-producing with Japan and tapping Japan’s vast manga and gaming industries.
The programme concludes on May 18 with the All-Japan Summit: Power Players Panel Discussion, featuring top executives from Japanese studios.
Each seminar will be followed by cocktail networking sessions.
Speakers including producers Masa Sawada (An, Journey To The Shore) and Samuel Hadida (Silent Hill) and Filosophia founder Tetsu Fujimura will share strategies for doing business with Japan.
The speaker line-up also includes casting director Yoko Narahashi and Cork, Inc co-founder Yuma Terada, who manages Japanese writers and manga artists.
Seminar topics include sourcing Japanese talent for international productions, co-producing with Japan and tapping Japan’s vast manga and gaming industries.
The programme concludes on May 18 with the All-Japan Summit: Power Players Panel Discussion, featuring top executives from Japanese studios.
Each seminar will be followed by cocktail networking sessions.
- 5/12/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Japan is launching a new promotional initiative designed to boost the global market for Japanese films, TV, manga and other contents – Japan Day Project (Jdp) – at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Backed by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industr (Meti), Jdp is hosting a Japan Pavilion at Cannes that will showcase Japanese content, as well as organising a comprehensive programme of seminars, show reel screenings and networking events.
“Our goals are two-fold,” said Japan Day Project brand manager Mika Morishita. “First, we will create platforms for Japanese industry professionals to build valuable business partnerships with international counterparts.
“Second, we will bring the best of Japanese culture and entertainment to influential audiences, establishing lasting personal connections between Japan and global consumers.”
The seminars programme – New Gateways to the Japanese Industry – features speakers such as casting director Yoko Narahashi, who introduced Ken Watanabe and Rinko Kikuchi to Hollywood, and Paris-based producer Masa Sawada, whose credits...
Backed by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industr (Meti), Jdp is hosting a Japan Pavilion at Cannes that will showcase Japanese content, as well as organising a comprehensive programme of seminars, show reel screenings and networking events.
“Our goals are two-fold,” said Japan Day Project brand manager Mika Morishita. “First, we will create platforms for Japanese industry professionals to build valuable business partnerships with international counterparts.
“Second, we will bring the best of Japanese culture and entertainment to influential audiences, establishing lasting personal connections between Japan and global consumers.”
The seminars programme – New Gateways to the Japanese Industry – features speakers such as casting director Yoko Narahashi, who introduced Ken Watanabe and Rinko Kikuchi to Hollywood, and Paris-based producer Masa Sawada, whose credits...
- 5/11/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Cannes film review, Un Certain Regard
"Tokyo!" interprets facets of life in the Japanese metropolis with footloose imagination and a nonchalant attitude toward artistic discipline or meaning. An omnibus by France's Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Korea's Bong Joon-Ho ("The Host"), the directors lay down strong stamps of personality in their choice of subjects and mise-en-scenes, while employing touches of fantasy that range from teasingly surreal to unsubtly grotesque. The film would uniformly improve with at least 10 minutes trimmed from each segment to sharpen the narrative focus.
Though these vignettes appear frivolous and inconsequential when set beside the directors' features, they will tickle the funny bones of a general audience. A safe choice for fantastic fests, worldwide cinemas will open to the kind of audiences who bought tickets to see "Paris J'taime" or "To Each His Own Cinema".
Exploring the city as outsiders, all three filmmakers portray misfits who either slip out of the social fabric through mutation or withdrawal, or take on the human race with savage terrorist tactics.
Gondry's "Interior Design" retains most of his impish creativity. He describes a pair of Tokyo newcomers' humiliating struggle to fit into the city (mentally and spatially) with droll humor, and utilizes ingenious CG effects to create hypnotic dreamlike images.
Carax opens his segment "Merde" with a breathtaking continuous shot that tracks a Caucasian sewer-dweller (Denis Lavant) walking down Ginza, paralyzing pedestrians with his uncouth behavior. The nihilistic plot displays rudiments of an allegory on the historic legacy of militarism, xenophobia and the judiciary system, but these are left undeveloped, as Carax gets carried away with offensive burlesque.
Bong Joon-Ho's "Tokyo Shaking" takes on the Japanese phenomenon of "hikkikomori" -- extreme recluses who stay in their bedrooms for years -- and enters the psyche of one such person (Teruyuki Kagawa). Beautifully shot and edited, the story is disarming except for the overuse of reaction shots and blank stares of Kagawa, who never lets go of an opportunity to overact.
Writer-directors: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-Ho. Screenwriter: Gabrielle Bell. Cast: Ryo Kase, Ayako Fujitani, Denis Levant, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yu Aoi. Producers: Masa Sawada, Michiko Yoshitake.
Sales: The Wild Bunch
No MPAA rating, 152 minutes.
"Tokyo!" interprets facets of life in the Japanese metropolis with footloose imagination and a nonchalant attitude toward artistic discipline or meaning. An omnibus by France's Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Korea's Bong Joon-Ho ("The Host"), the directors lay down strong stamps of personality in their choice of subjects and mise-en-scenes, while employing touches of fantasy that range from teasingly surreal to unsubtly grotesque. The film would uniformly improve with at least 10 minutes trimmed from each segment to sharpen the narrative focus.
Though these vignettes appear frivolous and inconsequential when set beside the directors' features, they will tickle the funny bones of a general audience. A safe choice for fantastic fests, worldwide cinemas will open to the kind of audiences who bought tickets to see "Paris J'taime" or "To Each His Own Cinema".
Exploring the city as outsiders, all three filmmakers portray misfits who either slip out of the social fabric through mutation or withdrawal, or take on the human race with savage terrorist tactics.
Gondry's "Interior Design" retains most of his impish creativity. He describes a pair of Tokyo newcomers' humiliating struggle to fit into the city (mentally and spatially) with droll humor, and utilizes ingenious CG effects to create hypnotic dreamlike images.
Carax opens his segment "Merde" with a breathtaking continuous shot that tracks a Caucasian sewer-dweller (Denis Lavant) walking down Ginza, paralyzing pedestrians with his uncouth behavior. The nihilistic plot displays rudiments of an allegory on the historic legacy of militarism, xenophobia and the judiciary system, but these are left undeveloped, as Carax gets carried away with offensive burlesque.
Bong Joon-Ho's "Tokyo Shaking" takes on the Japanese phenomenon of "hikkikomori" -- extreme recluses who stay in their bedrooms for years -- and enters the psyche of one such person (Teruyuki Kagawa). Beautifully shot and edited, the story is disarming except for the overuse of reaction shots and blank stares of Kagawa, who never lets go of an opportunity to overact.
Writer-directors: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-Ho. Screenwriter: Gabrielle Bell. Cast: Ryo Kase, Ayako Fujitani, Denis Levant, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yu Aoi. Producers: Masa Sawada, Michiko Yoshitake.
Sales: The Wild Bunch
No MPAA rating, 152 minutes.
- 5/16/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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