The movies we have seen are the interesting Documentary Ainu – Indigenous People Of Japan by Naomi MIZOGUCHI and the very funny Mockumentary Extro by Naoki MURAHASHI, reminding us of others in the sub-genre like Ski Jumping Pairs: Road to Torino 2006 or Big Man Japan.
You can find below our video comment on those three events, as well as some pictures.
The main points are summarized in our video below, but here are some more details.
Isao Yukisada managed to direct two movies remotely during his confinement, with the actors doing their own make-up and filming: one about people have a drinking party at home, and the other about a couple in trouble which gets separated by the confinement.
His latest movie before that, Theater, was supposed to be released soon after all Cinemas closed. Releasing it online would mean loosing a lot of money, but the advertisement budget was already spent and there is no more to re-advertise the movie for a later Cinema release. This is a dilemma.
He really wants his movies to be released on Cinema screens, they are designed for that. But if the theaters have to operate at half capacity (one seat free every other), this is also a loss.
For his next projects, he is worried that there are some things they won't be allowed to shoot (public places are not yet allowed). The key is to have as few people in the production as possible, for example 10 people on set: the actors do their make-up themselves, props, set, ... He is also thinking about filming with his phone.
All of Shozo Ichiyama's next projects are stopped. He is finding ways to slowly restart the Japanese ones, but the others with foreigner cast or crew cannot restart yet. And operating with contact restrictions will lengthen the shooting and production duration, thus the cost. On the other hand, during confinement he could improve the screenplay of many movies.
He still plans for Tokyo FilmX going ahead in November, even if 50% capacity. In the worst case it will be an online festival. He still thinks it is useful even if not ideal.
Festivals are also places where filmmakers meet, he has many anecdotes about projects that started at a Festival (Isao agrees). If foreigners cannot visit in November, he still wants to give possibility to exchange via online key sessions.
Miyuki Takamatsu is working on releasing movies online instead of promoting new films. She explores new distribution avenues. She agrees that movies should be sold in cinemas. It is a pity to distribute online products that were though for Cinemas. Selling movie fr a given place at a given price is getting blurred by online sales.
Also journalists expect Q&A with the crew after a movie release. She finds nice that an online movie Festivals like Nippon Connection manages that.
Miyuki used to travel a lot. What she sees now is that filmmakers are less visible.
She presents 6 films at Nippon Connection this year but is worried that it will be difficult to find films to show next year.
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| Extro |
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