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Shinsedai Cinema Festival: The New Generation Japanese Film Festival
Shinsedai – Japanese term meaning “new generation”
Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi, Oshima, Kitano – around the world these names immediately bring to mind the best that Japanese cinema has to offer, but now that we’re at the beginning of a new century many film fans are wondering who the next generation of great filmmakers from Japan will be. Toronto’s first Shinsedai Cinema Festival tries to answer that question by bringing some of the best work by independent Japanese filmmakers to Toronto, many for the very first time.
Curated by Jasper Sharp, author, film historian, and co-founder of Midnight Eye (http://www.midnighteye.com/), the premiere resource for new Japanese cinema online and Chris MaGee, the founder and editor of Toronto’s own J-Film Pow-Wow (http://www.jfilmpowwow.blogspot.com/), the Shinsedai Cinema Festival will celebrate the wide range of talent coming out of Japan today. For three days between August 21st and 23rd the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre will be host to everything from insightful dramas, quirky comedies, hard-hitting documentaries, experimental shorts, and beyond. The Shinsedai Cinema Festival will have something for everyone this summer.
There is a good write-up of this year's festival on Blogto.com
http://www.blogto.com/film/2009/08/five_films_to_watch_at_the_shinsedai_...
