Festival Archives


2004

International Competition Jury

Jury President
James Hindman

Co-Director and Chief Operationg Officer, AFI

Jury Members
Thomas Hoegh

Managing Partner, Arts Alliance Advisors

Wang Hong Hai

Dean, Art Direction Department. Beijing Film Academy

Hide Nakaya

NHK Committee (Digital-Related Arts and Culture)

Yukiko Shii

Producer

Feature Length Competition

Title

Director

Walking With The Dog

Makoto Shinozaki

2003/Japan/105min./HD

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

Lone Scherfig

2002/Denmark/105min./HD

EDI

Piotr Trzaskalski

2002/Poland/97min./HD, DV

Pictorial Letters

Nobuteru Uchida

2002/Japan/95min./HD

Girlie

Benjamin Tucek

2002/Czech/83min./HD

SALT

Bradley Rust Gray

2003/Iceland=U.S.A./83min./DV

The Coldest Day

Xie Dong

2003/China/101min./HD

Short Length Competition (International)

Title

Director

The Tale of The Floating World

Alain Escalle

2001/France, Japan/24min./Digital Betacam

Eternal Gaze

Sam Chen

2003/USA/16min./DV

EMBRYO

Mike Goedecke

2003/USA/27min./HD

How I'm Surviving in Kawaguchi City

Kenji Murakami

2003/Japan/30min./DV

Cowardly Vicious

Kwon Lee

2002/Korea/23min./DV

Classmates

Bjorn Carlstorn / Stefan Thunberg

2003/Sweden/26min./HD

A Small Life

Michael Heath

2000/New Zealand/52min./DV

2+1

Philippe Safir

2004/France, USA/26min./HD, film

The Bug Man

Mike Miley

2003/USA/22min./HD

Birth Day

Laura Smith

2003/UK/11min./DV

Watching is Living

Teppei Kuroyanagi

2003/Japan/8min./DV

Kawaguchi Special Screenings (Domestic)

Title

Director

Theater of Hope

Kiyoharu Murakami

2002/Japan/49min./DV

Usagi

Chiemi Doi

2002/Japan/10min./DV

Hinomaru Restaurant

Kookai Morita

2003/Japan/30min./HD

A Usual Walkway

Yuko Imanishi

2002/Japan/15min./DV

Vaudevillian Dolls Dont & Not

Aki Funabiki

2003/Japan/31min./DV

Pachinko Love

Hoka Kinoshita

2001/Japan/15min./DV

Have We Ever Met Before?

Takeshi Fukazawa

2003/Japan/3min./DV

Mars

Yo Kohatsu

2003/Japan/5min./DV

Giants in Mirage

Kentaro Tada

2003/Japan/3min./DV

Magic

Kei Horie

2003/Japan/26min./HD

What Ever Happened to Ms.Machiko?

Koji Shirakawa

2004/Japan/30min./DV

Canned Beauties

Masaya Kakehi

2003/Japan/61min./DV

Gifts for the Future

Yoshihiko Tada

2003/Japan/102min./DV

Opening Screening

Title

Director

The Sniper

Shunji Muguruma

2004/Japan/112min./HD

Special Screenings

Title

Director

The Spanish Apartment

Cedric Klapisch

2001/France/122min./HD

Wallah Be

Pia Bovin

2002/Denmark/85min./HD

Symposium 1
Prospects for Digital Cinema in the 21st Century:Exploring the Prospects for a Strategy to Expand Digital Exhibition in Each Country

  • Thomas Hoegh (Managing Partner ,Arts Alliance Advisors)
  • Patrick von Sychowski (Digital Cinema Analyst, Screen Digest)
  • Wang Lian (Deputy Director, General, Science and Technology Dept. at State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television)

Symposium 2
Creators in Digital Age: Digital Cinema and Diversity of Expression

Fumihiko Sori (Director)

  • Girlie Short Jam
    Directors: Reiko Saito, Keisuke Onodera, Daisuke, Miki, Yu Kamefuchi

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Presenters

  • Milky Cartoon Co., Ltd.
  • Intelvision Japan Co., Ltd.
  • Juninome - Indies Movie Project-
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  • Naked Inc.
  • Digital Image Next Inc.
  • Pippin
  • Amuse Inc.
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  • Japan-China Pictures Communications Co., Ltd.
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  • Cinemacine.Japan
  • Koji Shirakawa

Official Sponsor SONY FUJINON SHIMIZU CORPORATION Takenaka Corporation NTT Communications SHIMIZ BLC Co., Ltd. ASAHI FACILITIES INC.

Logistic Partner FedEx

Official Airline JAL

Official Hotel Urawa Royal Pines Hotel

Official Partner SONY PCL Saitama Resona Bank, Limited Saitama Railway Corporation

Supporter The Citizens' Circle to Support SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL

Media Partner CINEMA TOPICS ONLINE Tokyo Art Beat Denryu Saitama Realtokyo / ART iT

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