Tours, Events and Other Curatorial Projects

• EVA – East via Asia! film festival, Tallinn, Estonia, 25-28 August 2011. Programme curator.
• ‘Behind the Pink Curtain’ 20-film retrospective at the 11th New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland, 21-31 July 2011. Curator.
• Third Shinsedai New Generation Japanese Cinema Festival, Toronto, 21-24 July 2011 Co-Programmer / Co-Director (with Chris MaGee).
• Back to the Future: Japanese Cinema Since the Mid-90s annual touring season for the Japan Foundation UK, screening at London, Belfast, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Nottingham and Bristol. February-March, 2011. Programme Advisor. Programme details here.
• Zipangu Fest, London, 23-28 November 2010. Festival Director / Head Programmer. Parts of the programme toured to the Arnolfini, Bristol (16-19 December 2010) and the Star and Shadow, Newcastle (7-17 April 2011).
• Japanese Halloween Schlockfest Double Bill of RoboGeisha and Big Tits Zomie 3D, at the Barbican, London, 29 October 2010, as part of Zipangu Fest.
• Second Shinsedai New Generation Japanese Film Festival, Toronto, 22-25 July 2010. Co-Programmer / Co-Director (with Chris MaGee).
• The Origins of Anime, a programme of prewar and wartime Japanese animation screened at at the Animate the World festival held at the Barbican, London, 26 May 2010. Curator.
• Girls on Film: Females in Contemporary Japanese Cinema annual touring season for the Japan Foundation UK, screening at London, Belfast, Edinburgh, Sheffield and Bristol. February-March 2010. Programme Advisor. Programme details here.
• Pinku Eiga: Beyond Pink, 11-film retrospective at the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece, 13-22 November 2009. Curated as part of the Independence Days section with Lefteris Adamidis.
• Pigs, Eels & Insects: Reassessing the Legacy of Shohei Imamura, Arnolfini, Bristol, 15 October-8 November 2009. Co-curated with Patrick Crogan and Alastair Cameron. The season traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and Glasgow Film Theatre.
• 17th Raindance Film Festival, London, 30 September-11 October, 2009. Programmer on the ‘Way Out East’, ‘Documentary’ and ‘Global Celluloid’ sections, this year with a special 6-film focus on ‘Japanese Women Filmmakers’
• Shinsedai New Generation Japanese Film Festival, Toronto, 21-23 August 2009. Co-Programmer / Co-Director (with Chris MaGee).
• L’Empire du Désire retrospective at the Cinémathèque Québécoise de Montréal, in conjunction with Montreal Fantasia Film Festival, 14-27 July 2009. Curator and guest speaker.
• Anna May Wong Must Die! event, in conjunction with the writer/broadcaster Anna Chen, the Roxy Cinema, London, 28 May 2009. Organizer and speaker.
• Sexploitation and Experimentation: The Many Shades of Pink Film retrospective at the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, in conjunction with Nippon Connection festival, 16-18 April 2009. Curator and guest speaker.
• Bollywood for Beginners season at the Arnolfini, Bristol, March 2009. Curator.
• Dark Dreams in Plasticine programme of British stop-motion animation, screened at at the Animate the World festival held at the Barbican, London, 5 April 2009. Curator.
• Reality Fiction: Japanese Films Inspired by Actual Events annual touring season for the Japan Foundation UK, screening at London, Belfast, Edinburgh, Sheffield and Bristol. February-March 2009. Programme Advisor. Programme details here.
• Wild Japan: Sex in Japanese Cinema of the 60s and 70s season at the BFI Southbank, London and other selected UK venues, December 2008. Co-curator (with Matt Palmer).
• Behind the Pink Curtain retrospective at Fantastic Fest, Austin, Texas, September 2008. Curator.
• 16th Raindance Film Festival, London, 1-12 October, 2008. Programmer on the ‘Way Out East’, ‘Documentary’ and ‘Global Celluloid’ sections.
• Kawamoto The Puppet Master event at the Watershed, Bristol on 15-16 March 2008, with the program touring to London Barbican, National Media Museum in Bradford, Manchester Cornerhouse, Edinburgh Filmhouse, Tyneside Cinema and Sheffield Showroom until May 2008. Curator/organiser of an event that brought together the works of the stop-motion animator Kihachiro Kawamoto with UK animators including David Borthwick, Peter Lord, Suzie Templeton and Barry Purves.
• A Life More Ordinary: A Portrait of Contemporary Japanese People on Film annual touring season for the Japan Foundation UK, screening at London, Belfast, Edinburgh, Sheffield and Bristol. February-March 2008. Program Advisor.
• Tomu Uchida: A Master Craftsman season at the BFI Southbank, London and other selected UK venues, December 2007. Co-curator (with Alexander Jacoby).
• 15th Raindance Film Festival, London, 25 September-7 October 2007. Programmer on the ‘Way Out East’, ‘Documentary’ and ‘Global Celluloid’ sections.
• Move Over Ozu: The 21st Century Japanese Family on Film annual touring season for the Japan Foundation UK, screening at London, Belfast, Edinburgh, Sheffield and Bristol. February-March 2007. Program Advisor.
• 14th Raindance Film Festival, London, 27 September-8 October 2006. Curator. Programmer on the ‘Way Out East’, ‘Documentary’ and ‘Global Celluloid’ sections.
• Comic Proportions: Japanese Films Adapted from Manga annual touring season for the Japan Foundation UK, screening at London, Belfast, Edinburgh, Sheffield and Bristol. February-March 2006. Program Advisor.
• 13th Raindance Film Festival, London, 28 September-9 October 2005. Curator. Programmer on the ‘Way Out East’ and ‘Documentary’ sections.

Festival Juries

• 10th Nippon Connection, Frankfurt, April 2010.
• 9th Barcelona Asian Film Festival, May 2007.
  

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