5th Okinawa International Film Festival welcomes Joel Schumacher as jury
I worked with Joel on Flatliners with Julia Roberts, his film was a hit of course in France, where I distributed it. I consider him a very creative visual director and have since followed his career, he will bring talent to the festival.
Bruno Chatelin
Yoshimoto Kogyo today announced the programs of the 5th Okinawa International Movie Festival (OIMF) through a press conference held at its Tokyo office. With Takashi Fujii and Ayako Kisa hosting the conference, total of 19 comedians, actor/actress and model, along with Yoshimoto Kogyo CEO Hiroshi Osaki and OIMF category leaders, joined to represent the festival held from Saturday March 23 to Saturday 30 at Okinawa Convention Center as the main venue.
Joel Schumacher, director of “Batman Forever (1995)” and “The Phantom of the Opera (2004),” will perform as the president of jury for the movie festival. Other juries for the Laugh/Peace Category are actress Kaori Momoi, artist Demon Kakka and Canadian director Claude Gagnon.
Osaki started off the hour long conference, “Our employees are taking this as a miracle that we have come to announce the 5th event. New categories have become productive. All in all, we are delighted that people in Okinawa care this event. We hope to send out variety of information from Okinawa to all over Asia”.
Under the concept of “Laugh & Peace”, Osaki have pointed on deepening the ties with many people in Okinawa as one of the themes in celebrating the 5th event. The main competition category, along with the annual Laugh/Peace Category, has newly created “Creator’s Factory” to find new creator and talent and “Nibichi Movie Festival” to honor the best wedding videos from Okinawa. The other keyword would be Asia as Okinawa Contents Bazaar aims to be the “Asian Entertainment Gateway” through business meetings that entertainment-related companies such as CAA (USA) and SMG (Shanghai) will be joining.
【List of Films announced】
●Special Invitation
Jury／Korea／2012
The Complex／Japan／2013
JACK THE GIANT SLAYER／USA／2013
●Laugh Category
Geinin！THE MOVIE／Japan／2013
GENGE Japan／2013
Saranair Osekai／Thailand／2012
Bitch／Japan／2013
FLICKER／Sweden／2012
Cha Cha for Twins／Taiwan／2013
Mental／Australia ／2012
●Peace Category
ARCHITECTURE101 / Korea／2012
Jellyfish / Japan／2013
Jyokyo Monogatari / Japan／2012
THE DEATH MATCH : FIGHTING FIST OF SAMURAI JOE／Japan／2013
The Happy Life Of Debbie／Taiwan／2012
Naitara Akande TSUTENKAKU／Japan／2013
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD／USA／2012
Barfi!／India／2012
I AM THE KING!／Korea／2013
7 days Report ／Japan／2013
For more information, please check the official website of the 5th OIMF.
Sincerely,
The Okinawa International Movie Festival Executive Committee
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