Festival Archives


2005

Feature Length Competition Jury

Jury President
Charles S. Swartz

CEO, Entertainment Technology Center at USC

Jury Members
Pitof

Film Director

Jianqi Huo

Film Director

Shoji Masui

Producer

Short Length Competiton Jury

Jury President
Masanobu Takashima

Actor

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

  • Yoko Kunihiro (Film Critic/The Japan Film Pen Club)
  • Kawamura Yusei (Secretary of the Citizens' Circle to Support SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL)
  • Yukiko Tateishi (Secretary of the Citizens' Circle to Support SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL)
  • Yasunobu Takahashi (Director of Sai-No-Kuni Saitama Eizo Renmei)
  • Yuji Mori (Vice Chairperson of Kawaguchi Junior Chamber)
  • Kohei Takasugi (NPO Saitama Audio-Visual Volunteers)
  • Fumio Ehara (NPO Saitama Audio-Visual Volunteers)

Feature Length Competition *Best New Director nominees

Title

Director

Last Minute *

Marina Caba Rall

2003/Germany/82min/Digital BETACAM

Angel *

Mayumi Miyasaka

2005/Japan/117min/HDCAM

Red Cockroaches *

Miguel Coyula

2004/USA/82min/DV

Me and You and Everyone We Know *

Miranda July

2005/USA/90min/HDCAM

Brothers

Susanne Bier

2004/Denmark/110min/HDCAM

The World

Zhan-ke Jia

2004/China, Japan, France/139min/HDCAM

Moonlanding *

Till Endemann

2003/Germany/90min/DV

Music from the Inside Out *

Daniel Anker

2004/USA/90min/Digital BETACAM

Able Edwards *

Graham Robertson

2004/USA/85min/DV

Silver Ornaments

Jian Zhong Huang

2004/China/115min/Chinese/HDCAM

Short Length Competition (Domestic)

Title

Director

Thinking about You

Yuya Kasai

2004/19min/DV

Life in Additional Time

Masaya Kakehi

2003/10min/DV

Secchan

Masatoshi Takeuchi

2003/34min/DVCAM

Coffee & Milk

Izuru Kumasaka

2004/30min/DV

Scarlet Road

Tomoyasu Murata

2002/14min/DV

Turn Left on the Next Traffic Light

Takeshi Shimojo

2004/59min/DV

Your Secret & My Heart

Takashi Kubota

2004/18min/HDCAM

Why the Red Road

Takashi Komatsu

2004/27min/DV

Fly Bubble Fly

Katsunori Sato

2004/40min/DV

Natchan in Summer

Kotaro Sengoku

2005/45min/DV

Opening Screening

Title

Director

Summer Time Machine Blues

Katsuyuki Motohiro

2005/Japan/107min/HDCAM

Spot Light on Nordic Shorts

Title

Director

Universal Kjell

Erik Richter Strand

2003/Norway/29min/Norwegian/Digital BETACAM

Soldier 7

Matthew Allen

2005/Sweden/20min/No dialogue/HDCAM

Broadband

Ulf Hansson

2004/Sweden/29min/Swedish/Digital BETACAM

Max by Chance

Max Kestner

2004/Denmark/29min/Danish/Digital BETACAM

Stressless

Jessica Nilsson

2003/Denmark/15min/Danish/Digital BETACAM

The Bewitched Child

Marikki Hakola

2004/Finland/47min/French/Digital BETACAM

Money

Savar Sigurdsson

2004/Iceland/6min/Icelandic/DV

The Last Words of Hreggvidur

Grimur Hakonarson

2004/Iceland/22min/Icelandic/DV

Forum
VFX and Digital Cinema

Guests

  • Shinji Higuchi (Director)
  • Pitof (Director)

Moderator

  • Reiko Tsushima (Film Critic)

Symposium
Digital Cinema Updates - From Hollywood, UK and India

Panelists

  • Bob Girard (SVP, Twentieth Fox International, Japan)
  • Mark Kimball (Director, Digital Production, Walt Disney Company, U.S.A)
  • Steve Perrin (Deputy Head of Distribution and Exhibition, UK Film Council, UK)

Moderator

  • Charles S.Swartz (Executive Director & CEO, Entertainment Technology Center at USC, U.S.A.)

D-Contents Market

Presenters

  • Katsunori Sato
  • Takashi Komatsu
  • Digital Skip Station Co., Ltd.
  • Takashi Kubota
  • Izuru Kumasaka
  • Kotaro Sengoku
  • Japan-China Pictures Communications Co., Ltd.
  • Junya Okabe
  • Ryotaro Muramatsu
  • Takeshi Shimojo
  • Fugakuoka
  • Yugo Eto
  • Yuya Kasai

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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