bikkle wrote:how much has TIFF really changed?"I think there is actually, for the first time, a recognition among the festival organizers that TIFF is in crisis."
There is a grave underrepresentation of Japanese works as a whole--of the festival's 120 films, only about 40 are Japanese, many of which have already been screened at home or overseas.
Given the fact that more than half of the films in competition already have landed distributors leaves you wondering wherein lies the festival's real changes, as well as its spirit. It's difficult to see the selection as anything other than a series of ceremonious public preview screenings. The same could be said of the Special Screening program, which is loaded with big-budget films boasting Hollywood's biggest names.
Tokyo film festival to feature comics, games
Crisscross.com -- Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 06:00 EDT
TOKYO---Japan is considering expanding the Tokyo International Film Festival to boost the country's "cultural content industry," ...
....the film festival, which has been held 18 times, should be expanded into an event tentatively called "International Content Carnival" to feature "multi contents" such as animation and comics.
