Event: East Winds: A Third Window Film Festival

Where: Warwick Arts Centre, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, West Midlands, CV4 7AL

When: Fri 11–Sun 13 Feb 2011

Tickets: Per screening: £6.60; students £4.30; Warwick Students and CUEAFS members £3.00. Also available: Festival ticket at £20 for 4 films (inc booking fees). Contact the Box Office on 024 7652 4524, or visit the Warwick Arts Centre website.

From February 11th to 13th 2011, Third Window Films in conjunction with the Coventry University East Asian Film Society present East Winds: A Third Window Film Festival.

“Our goal is to raise awareness of Asian cinema to a university crowd who might normally not have much chance to catch Asian cinema on the big screen. With a 220-seater cinema, cheap ticket prices and a variety of films from all over Asia being shown, Third Window Films and CUEAFS hope you can all enjoy a new type of cinema and let us help you explore a window to the East!”

The East Winds facebook page is here. I’m going to be present to conduct a few onstage interviews, as detailed in this blog post.

The festival coincides with a two-day international symposium Asian Exposure: East Asian Cinema in a Global Context held at Coventry University on February 11-12.

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Posted at 12:37 on 11 February 2011 Filed under events.

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Event: Back to the Future: Japanese Cinema Since the Mid-90s
Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
+ others When: 4-13 Feb 2011 in London, then until 28 March 2011.

Now in its 8th year, the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme focuses on the marked resurgence of Japanese cinema from the mid 1990s onwards. With a series of works from seven key directors who have carved a new path for the future and contributed to the recent success of Japanese cinema around the world, the 2011 line-up provides UK audiences with an insight into a pivotal period which changed the landscape of Japanese cinema and provided a once great industry with a new lease of life.

The titles in this year’s line-up are among the finest examples from key Japanese directors of this period, popular both at home and abroad, such as Takashi Miike and Kiyoshi Kurosawa, alongside directors like Isao Yukisada and Isshin Inudo who have been highly successful within the domestic market in Japan but are less recognised overseas. Also included are representatives from a younger generation of directors including Yuya Ishii who is part of a new stream of talent to watch out for in the future.

As well as inspiring the beginnings of a new era of Japanese cinema, these directors all continue to work, and remain a part of the future of Japanese cinema. Though the selected works may be less well-known in the UK, they are all key works in the development of their respective director’s career, they also serve to illustrate the development of contemporary Japanese cinema and help to exhibit a great breadth of creativity.

The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme is organised by the Japan Foundation with advice from Jasper Sharp.

Also at BELFAST, BRISTOL, EDINBURGH, NOTTINGHAM and SHEFFIELD
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Posted at 13:04 on 04 February 2011 Filed under events.

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