Festival Archives


2006

Feature Length Competition Jury

Jury President
Richard Jobson

Writer/Director

Jury Members
Robert Allan Ackermann

Director

Yoko Narahashi

Stage Director, Songwriter, Casting Director, Director

Bong-ou Lee

Prodecer

Short Length Competiton Jury

Jury President
Masanobu Takashima

Actor

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

  • Shintaro Tashiro (Cartoonist)
  • Yoko Kunihiro (Film Critic/The Japan Film Pen Club)
  • Shunsaku Naito (Vice President of Kawaguchi Junior Chamber)
  • Akira Nakajima (NPO Saitama Audio-Visual Volunteers)
  • Fumio Ehara (NPO Saitama Audio-Visual Volunteers)

Feature Length Competition *Best New Director nominees

Title

Director

Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds *

Ahmet Ulucay

2004/Turkey/101min/DVCAM

Lovelife of a Fat Thief *

Henrik Sylven

2006/Sweden/82min/HDCAM

Kuss Kuss - Your Happiness Depends *

Soren Senn

2005/Germany-Swiss/95min/DVCPRO

Do U Cry 4 Me Argentina? *

Bae Youn-suk

2005/Argentina/93min/DV

Schnitzel Paradise

Martin Koolhoven

2005/The Netherlands/84min/HDCAM

The Sumer of Stickleback *

Mayu Nakamura

2006/Japan/98min/DVCPRO

Play *

Alicia Scherson

2005/Chile-France-Argentina/105min/HDCAM

The Contract

Lu Xuechang

2005/China/100min/HDCAM

The Score *

Kim Collier

2005/Canada/83min/HDCAM

Skritek

Tomas Vorel

2005/Czech Republic/87min/Digital BETACAM

Making Waves *

Nicolas Van Pallandt

2005/UK/86min/HDCAM SR

Good Bye My Love *

Shi Chen-feng

2005/China/95min/HDCAM SR, HDCAM, HD-D5

Short Length Competition (Domestic)

Title

Director

Sakura Sakura

Makoto Yamaguchi

2005/14min/DV

Tough Guy! 2005

Shintaro Kishimoto

2005/7min/DVD

Catchball With Nicole

Yukiyasu Asano

2005/59min/DV

Muruko, Kuroko & Pooh

Katsunori Sato

2005/13min/DV

For

Kunpei Yanagawa

2006/57min/DV

Modern Refording's Madman

Yuki Nakayama

2005/21min/DV/DV

Hello Horizon

Nobuyuki Yoshikawa

2005/44min/DV

Bluebottle

Mamiko Hiwatari

2005/45min/DV

Kiibo

Kenichiro Fujino

2002/8min/DV

Monsieur Greenpeas

Yasuo Kurita

2004/Japan/48min/DV

Hana-Mushiro

Shingo Yoshimura

2005/35min/DV

Opening Screening

Title

Director

Boy Meets Ghost Hanadashonenshi

Nobuo Mizuta

2006/Japan/123min/HDCAM SR

Symposium
The Updates of Digital Cinema in the distribution and screening over the world

Panelists

  • Yotam Ben-Ami (Vice President of Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations-North America, Warner Bros.)
  • Dr. Tetsuo Fujii Excecutive Manager, Media Networking Laboratory, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories)
  • Bud Mayo (Chairman, CEO,Access Integrated Technologies, Inc.)

Moderator

  • Patrick von Sychowski (Director of Business Development, Unique Digital Ltd.)

D-Contents Market

Presenters

  • Takashi Inoue
  • Takashi Nishimura (Uni Japan)
  • Kenichi Sawada/Akiko Tsugane
  • Kenichi Watanabe
  • Katsunori Sato
  • Takashi Kubota
  • Shunsuke Yamada (Cinema Investment)
  • Kazunori Egusa / Takashi Kuwahara
  • Ryotaro Muramatsu
  • Kensuke Zushi
  • Kojiro Sato
  • Tetsuya Fukuda (Saitama Location Service)
  • Atsushi Yoshinaga
  • Kunpei Yanagawa

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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