Translated by The Asahi Shimbun from the website of Anime Anime.
The 26th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is getting a minor face-lift to introduce previously unreleased films from outside Japan and promote Japanese and Asian films to the world, but animation will not return to the event for at least another year.
Festival officials will consider possibilities to establish an animation section in or after 2014, Yasushi Shiina, new director general of TIFF, said July 30 in Tokyo.
While the Competition and the Special Screenings categories will remain unchanged, the three other main categories will be altered.
The former Winds of Asia-Middle East section will be expanded into the Asian Future for up-and-coming Asian directors. The previous Japanese Eye will become Japanese Cinema Splash, with the World Cinema section renewed as the World Focus.
Shiina emphasized that the Japanese Cinema Splash and Asian Future sections are especially intended to help promote young filmmakers on a global scale.
Up until 2009, TIFF had included the "animecs TIFF" category dedicated to animation. But after it was abolished, the festival has hardly included works of animation produced in or outside Japan in its lineups in recent years.
It was also announced that "Captain Phillips," starring Tom Hanks, which is about the 2009 Somali pirate hostage drama, will open TIFF on Oct. 17. The Academy Award-winning actor is also expected to make an appearance at the festival.
"The Kiyosu Conference," written and directed by Koki Mitani, will bring the curtain down on the festival on Oct. 25. It will be the first time in seven years that a Japanese film will close the TIFF.
Meanwhile, actress Chiaki Kuriyama, best known internationally as Gogo Yubari in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill," will serve as the "festival muse" to drum up support for the festival.
The nine-day festival will kick off on Oct. 17 at the Roppongi Hills complex and elsewhere in Tokyo.
For more information, visit the official website at (http://tiff.yahoo.co.jp/2013/en/).
Translated by The Asahi Shimbun from the website of Anime Anime.
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The 26th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is getting a minor face-lift to introduce previously unreleased films from outside Japan and promote Japanese and Asian films to the world, but animation will not return to the event for at least another year.
Festival officials will consider possibilities to establish an animation section in or after 2014, Yasushi Shiina, new director general of TIFF, said July 30 in Tokyo.
While the Competition and the Special Screenings categories will remain unchanged, the three other main categories will be altered.
The former Winds of Asia-Middle East section will be expanded into the Asian Future for up-and-coming Asian directors. The previous Japanese Eye will become Japanese Cinema Splash, with the World Cinema section renewed as the World Focus.
Shiina emphasized that the Japanese Cinema Splash and Asian Future sections are especially intended to help promote young filmmakers on a global scale.
Up until 2009, TIFF had included the "animecs TIFF" category dedicated to animation. But after it was abolished, the festival has hardly included works of animation produced in or outside Japan in its lineups in recent years.
It was also announced that "Captain Phillips," starring Tom Hanks, which is about the 2009 Somali pirate hostage drama, will open TIFF on Oct. 17. The Academy Award-winning actor is also expected to make an appearance at the festival.
"The Kiyosu Conference," written and directed by Koki Mitani, will bring the curtain down on the festival on Oct. 25. It will be the first time in seven years that a Japanese film will close the TIFF.
Meanwhile, actress Chiaki Kuriyama, best known internationally as Gogo Yubari in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill," will serve as the "festival muse" to drum up support for the festival.
The nine-day festival will kick off on Oct. 17 at the Roppongi Hills complex and elsewhere in Tokyo.
For more information, visit the official website at (http://tiff.yahoo.co.jp/2013/en/).
Translated by The Asahi Shimbun from the website of Anime Anime.
The Asahi Shimbun
http://ajw.asahi.com/
■関連記事
Tokyo International Film Festival scheduled for Oct. 17-25
Legendary filmmaker Corman to head jury at Tokyo film fest
'Hal's Flute' to premiere at Tokyo film festival
Full-CG 'Captain Harlock' anime to set sail at Venice film festival
French CG film 'Autumn Leaves' scores big at Short Shorts film fest