大勢のゲスト!オフィシャルコンペ盛り上がっています。6月12日@横浜ブリリアショートショートシアター
2016年06月13日
International Competition 4
Moires Crowley, director of “Change in the Weather”, got an idea of the story when his extended family member did a coming out. Also Ireland held marriage equality referendum last year that received a lot of attentions from the world.
Crowley first started as an actor, and this was his first short to direct. When the audience asked him about the title, he said, “There are things in life that we cannot change, just like we have no power to change the weather. You just have to accept it”.
Asia International & Japan Competition 2
From left, director Elnura Osmonalieva of “SEIDE”, director Divij Roopchand of “Mast Qalandar”, director Takeshi Tanaka of “Five Percent Man”, and producer Takaki Nakadai and Makoto Komiya of “Umisyu”.
Writing a story about a girl in Kyrgyzstan being forced to marry, Elnura mentioned that it is based on the truth in Kyrgyzstan, and there are things that are unfortunately even worse. “Some girls are abducted to marry, and I wanted to tell people it’s very wrong”.
Roopchand, filming about a 13 years-old boy having difficulties with his mother, was questioned why the boy’s hair was long. He explained it is because of his religion, Sikh. In the religion, both women and men are not allowed to cut their hair, and he also said they used to be warriors in the history.
Tanaka’s short was about hard times and conflicts filmmakers have. This topic could be more familiar with Japanese filmmakers, since Japan have less support both from companies and government to create films. Tanaka said, he hopes the situation to be better, although he wants to keep on making films even with low budgets.
Two producers appeared on the stage this year said, they were one of the audience of the festival last year. And that was the moment when they decided to make and screen their own short next year. And they made it! Yes, dreams come true.
International Competition 1
I love “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”! And this short is “Breakfast with Tiffany”. The title just got my full attention right away! Director Andres Molano Moncada’s short starts with a scene, man cooking a breakfast for his beloved girlfriend or wife. But the theme of the short is “impossible love”. How come? It’s heartbreaking, yet a bit heartwarming. Why so? Please come and watch and see how you feel!
“Blue Mist” by director Pauline Findlay is a short about a deaf girl hiking with her boyfriend, and gets lost in the mountain. It has a mysterious ending, and that is because she wanted to leave space for the audience to think about it. She is now planning to make a feature about people with hearing loss. She said she has been doing lots of research and sound testings as well. I’m really looking forward to see her feature in coming years!
“Where We Begin” directed by Mitsuyo Miyazaki, is just beautiful and I could not stop my tears. She said, it’s based on her own spiritual experience when she lost her grandmother 16 years ago. Saying good-bye to beloved ones is universal and unchangeable experience we all have to go through. She is expressing all her feelings and beauty of nature and human in this short.
Asia International & Japan Competition 5
We had many guests including director Yuji Mitsuhashi and scripwriter Yoko Yonaiyama from “Lies”. When Mitsuhashi read the script, he loved it and promised himself to “beat the script”, meaning he wanted to make it even better. Yonaiyama, who was standing right next to him said, “yes, he did”.
“Keep Going” by director Geom Kim, is a story about a girl who is connected to her android. Many filmmakers have done films about androids, but them connected with human, was a whole new story. He said, “I wanted to do a Sci-Fi short, but something that nobody have done before, with low budgets. That’s why I chose girl to be connected with an android.” His work does not seem like a low budge short, it is very neatly done!
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