OSAKA ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2016

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The Osaka Asian Film Festival aims to facilitate human resources development and exchange, to invigorate the Osaka economy, and to increase the city’s appeal, through providing opportunities to watch excellent Asian films, supporting filmmaking in Osaka and attracting filmmakers from Asian countries and regions to Osaka. Promoting Osaka worldwide as a gateway city for Asian films, and engaging with many people from the fields of culture, art, education, tourism and business, from Osaka and all of Asia, OAFF works as an open platform to contribute to the development of Osaka and cinema.

Marking its 11th edition this year, OAFF, under programming director TERUOKA Sozo, will again select high-quality Asian films. The Competition section, which receives increased recognition every year, will again select films previously unreleased in Japan. The regular sections, Special Screenings and Indie Forum, and other special programs will also feature a wide variety of excellent Asian films.

OAFF attracts a large number of viewers from all over Japan and overseas, as well as from the local Kansai area. From Osaka to all of Japan and all of Asia, OAFF introduces many films and strives to make Osaka a hub of moving image culture.

Hosted by
Osaka Executive Committee for the Promotion of Moving Image Culture
Dates

March 4 (Fri) - 13 (Sun), 2016

(Pre-events will be held before the festival.)

Programs

Competition

This section will present the latest Asian films, which will have their Japan premieres at OAFF. From the films, the international jurors will choose the winners of the Grand Prix and Most Promising Talent Award.

Special Screenings

The Special Screenings will select much-talked-about Asian films.

Special Programs

The Special Programs will feature a specific filmmaker or country/region.

Indie Forum

Indie Forum section features innovative and challenging films by rising directors every year. The CO2 (Cineastes Organization Osaka) grant-recipient films will have their world-premiere in this section.

CO2 website  http://co2ex.org/

Osaka Asia Star ★ Award & Talk

This new program started in 2015 and selects one significant figure from the Japanese or Asian film industries, and bestows an award on him/her. Along with the award ceremony, an in-depth talk event with the awardee will be held to applaud his/her achievement.

Events

Welcome Party

OAFF will hold a Welcome Party for our guests, sponsors/supporters and the public.

Date: March 11 (Fri), 2016

Venue: Osaka City Central Public Hall

Symposiums/Talk Events

A number of symposiums and talk events, featuring participating filmmakers, will be held during the festival.

OAFF Poster Exhibition

We will exhibit posters of selected films from OAFF 2016 and past festivals at Gallery Metro Shinsaibashi.

Dates: February 15 (Mon) - March 12 (Sat), 2016

Venue: Gallery Metro Shinsaibashi, Osaka subway Shinsaibashi station yard

Asian Book Fair

In collaboration with the mega bookstore MARUZEN & JUNKUDO Umeda, OAFF 2016 will hold an Asian Book Fair.

Dates: February 13 (Sat) – March 31 (Thu), 2016

Venue: MARUZEN&JUNKUDO Umeda, 5F Art Book section

Cooperation: MARUZEN&JUNKUDO Umeda

Pre-events

Film Seminars

We will hold special seminars, including Asian film seminars by the OAFF programming director TERUOKA Sozo, and a seminar on film subtitling. We will also cooperate with several universities to broaden the supporter base for moving image culture.

<Asian film seminars>

Dates: September 13, 2015 – Feburuary 7, 2016

Venue: Osaka International House Foundation

<Film subtitling seminar>

Date: November 4, 2015

Venue: Osaka University, Minoh Campus

Venues

Umeda Burg 7, ABC Hall, Cine Libre Umeda, The Seventh Art Theater, and others.

Organized by

Osaka Executive Committee for the Promotion of Moving Image Culture

Osaka City

Osaka Asian Film Festival

Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Osaka Convention & Tourism Bureau

Asahi Broadcasting Corporation

Osaka Association of Theater Owners

Presented under the auspices of

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Agency for Cultural Affairs

Osaka Prefectural Government

Korean Cultural Center

Federation of Japanese Films Industry, Inc.

Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, Inc.

Foreign Film Importer – Distributors Association of Japan

Japan Association of Theatre Owners

FM OSAKA

Supported by

Japan Arts Council

The Japan Foundation Asia Center

The Japan World Exposition 1970 Commemorative Fund

Special supported by

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Special Sponsor

Panasonic Corporation

Sponsors

Athenee Francais Cultural Center

Izumisano Cross-cultural Association

The Film School of Tokyo

EVA Airways

FM COCOLO

University of Arts Media Course Visual Concept Planning Department

Graduate School of Language and Culture / School of Foreign Studies Osaka University, Osaka University Library

Goethe-Institut Osaka

Katashimo Wine Foods Co.,Ltd.

Cathay Pacific Airways

Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University

The National Musem Art, Osaka

Research in Film and Society in Southeast Asia (Refssea)

Suntory Publicity Service Limited

Japan Society

The Seventh Art Theater

Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan, Taiwan Culture Center

T-JOY

Tokyo Theatres Company, Incorporated

Toyosu Co.Ltd.

Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy

Keonguk Kindergarten・Elementary・Junior High・High School Educational Foundation Baekdu Hagwon

Hong Kong Special Administration Region Economic and Trade Office Tokyo

MARUZEN & JUNKUDO Umeda

MINAMI Machisodate Network

Yakushi Pearl Japan

Wise Infinity Inc.

Contact

Osaka Asian Film Festival Office

4-B-801, Tsuruno-cho, Kita-ku, Osaka 5300014

phone. +81-(0)6-6373-1211 fax. +81-(0)6-6373-1213

E-mail…info[at]oaff.jp