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22
Jul

Shinsedai Cinema Festival: The New Generation Japanese Film Festival, Toronto, July 22nd-25th

Event: Shinsedai Cinema Festival: The New Generation Japanese Film Festival
Venue: The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond Court, North York, ON M3C 1Z5, Canada
When: July 22nd-25th

Curated by Jasper Sharp, author, film historian, and co-founder of Midnight Eye, the premiere resource for new Japanese cinema online and Chris MaGee, the founder and editor of Toronto’s own J-Film Pow-Wow, the Shinsedai Cinema Festival will celebrate the wide range of talent coming out of Japan today. For four days between July 22nd and July 25th 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.

Read about the lineup here and here.

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Posted at 15:51 on 22 July 2010

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26
May

The Origins of Anime, Barbican, London

Event: The Origins of Anime

Where: Cinema 1, Barbican Centre, London

When: 26 May 2010, 6.30pm.

As part of the Barbican’s Animate the World festival (22-27 May), Japanese film specialist Jasper Sharp explores the origins of anime, with an exclusive selection of influential pre-war animations. Anime fans should also note that the Barbican is also running Helen McCarthy’s Japanimation season, with a double bill of Summer Wars and Dante’s Inferno on 25 May, also included as part of the festival.

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Posted at 17:38 on 26 May 2010