JAPAN CUTS 2020 Festival of New Japanese Film

JAPAN CUTS 2020
Festival of New Japanese Film

North America’s largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema returns for its unprecedented 14th edition as an entirely online experience! Featuring a diverse slate of 30 features and 12 shorts—including studio blockbusters, independent productions, documentaries, restored classics, animation and avant-garde works—JAPAN CUTS 2020 offers 14 days of unique access to the best new films from Japan with filmmaker video introductions, live virtual Q&As and panel discussions for audiences across the entire United States.

Organized by K. F. Watanabe, Amber Noé and Joel Neville Anderson.

Founded in 2007, JAPAN CUTS is an annual film festival dedicated to screening the best of contemporary Japanese cinema. Organized by Japan Society in New York City, the festival presents an exclusive slate of premiere film screenings, free talk events, and access to guest filmmakers and stars through post-screening Q&As and parties. Since its inception, the festival has attracted over 60,000 filmgoers, screened over 350 films and invited over 100 guests from Japan and beyond.

July 17-30, 2020

URL: https://japancuts.japansociety.org/

“LONGOCAMPO DOX” – Film and Visual Anthropology Summer School

Image borrowed from http://academiasociovizuala.com/. 

Caption reads: "If you want to shoot something, shoot a film! 
© Longocampo hunt, 1900, Kalinderu studio"

Announcement through contact on the VAOJ Facebook page:

We would like to bring to your attention a fresh and beneficial South-East European initiative, for the moment with its main headquarter in Romania, connecting SEE region with the world through socio-anthropology, film and visuality.

Socio - Visual Academy is a catalyst for education and production of socio-visual research, transmedia and film. The main objective of SVA is researching and educating in the ways the social sciences, new media, visual art and cinema can collaborate and bring positive contributions to a better understanding of human interaction and solving of society's issues.

In August 2014 , Socio-Visual Academy challenges creative adrenalines within “LONGOCAMPO DOX” – Film and Visual Anthropology Summer School:

Creative Documentary, Visual Anthropology, Experimental Cinema 2 – 17 August 2014, Campulung Muscel, Golescu Mansion

Exploring transdiciplinary practice, collaborative production, social impact. Dead-line for the submission of applications: 20 June 2014

Applications open and further info at: http://academiasociovizuala.com/

The New Kinema Club Website

Announcement from H-Japan:

Kinema Club, the website devoted to the study of Japanese moving image media, is moving! The preliminary version of the new site is already up with a new address. With the new site, we envision a renewed and active Kinema Club functioning as a site for information and new work on Japanese cinema and other media. In particular, Kinema Club will begin to function as a peer-reviewed electronic publication allowing scholars to present new ideas. Here are some of the new and old functions:

Research: Kinema Club will now publish peer-reviewed conference reports and research and film notes. We envision presenting kinds of work that are not well-accommodated by existing journals, or that are designed to encourage discussion, not present final conclusions.

Resources: As before, Kinema Club will offer bibliographies, guides to online articles, tables of contents and other information valuable to the study of Japanese cinema.

Education: Kinema Club will continue to present sample syllabi and other information beneficial to education in Japanese moving image media

Conferences: As an organization Kinema Club continues to hold annual conferences and workshops. The website will offer the most up-to-date information on those events.

KineJapan: The mailing list run by Kinema Club remains a vibrant space for discussing Japanese film. The new website offers a quick guide on how to participate on KineJapan.

As the new site gets going, we encourage your suggestions and submissions.

URL: http://kinemaclub.org/

"Hong Kong and Asian Cinema: Creativity and Culture in an Era of Globalization"

Announcement from H-Japan:

CALL FOR PAPERS
ASIAN CINEMA STUDIES SOCIETY CONFERENCE
With the Support of
THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURE and
THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE at
THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
MARCH 18-20, 2012
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

Hong Kong and Asian Cinema: Creativity and Culture in an Era of Globalization

This meeting of the Asian Cinema Studies Society welcomes paper, poster, workshop and panel proposals covering all aspects of Asian film and media. Although proposals related to the conference theme of Hong Kong and Asian cinema in the era of globalization may be given priority, proposals on all aspects of Asian film and media are welcome.

Please send proposals of 200-300 words as RTF or WORD attachments to Dr. Natalie Wong at siulamwong@gmail.com. For all proposals, be certain to include the title, author(s) name(s), institutional affiliation, mailing address, and email contacts, as well as a brief biography of each contributor. For panel, workshop, and group submissions, be certain to provide a brief description (100 words) of the contribution of each participant. Sessions will be 1 1/2 hours in duration, and time limits will be strictly enforced.

Deadline for proposals: December 31, 2011

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by the end of January 2012.

We regret that we cannot offer any funds for travel or accommodation. However, there will be NO registration fee for those presenting papers, serving as panel chairs, or participating in workshops, poster sessions, or in any other official capacity. Registered guests are welcome to attend as well; however, some conference events/meals may only be available for those presenting papers or serving in other official capacities.

About the Asian Cinema Studies Society (ACSS):

Inaugurated in 1984, ACSS has been dedicated to fostering research in Asian film and related media. It publishes *Asian Cinema *twice yearly, and features all types of Asian film, including full-length movies, documentaries, animation, and experimental. Nine ACSS conferences have been held since 1988, including five in the United States and one each in Australia, Canada, South Korea and China. Many of the papers presented at ACSS conferences have been published in Asian Cinema and other journals and books.

For more information on ACSS and for membership details, visit its website at http://astro.temple.edu/~jlent/asiancinema/acss.html

Conferences and Calls for Papers: The Body, Religion and Film

Visual anthro related announcements from H-Asia:

1. Call for papers: The Body in the Cinemas of South Asia, University of Vilnius, Lithuania, June 30-July 2, 2011

For more information: http://www.oc.vu.lt/en/conferences.html

2. Call for papers: Buddhism and Film: Aspects and Perspectives of Media-Communicated Religion, Workshop at Freie Universitaet Berlin, June 2nd and 3rd, 2011

For more information: http://buddhismusberlin.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/call-for-papers-5/ 

Resource: AsiaPacificFilms.com

Announcement from H-Asia:

AsiaPacific Films.com - An Asia Pacific Online Film Library

Self description (from their web site): 

What are we?

AsiaPacificFilms.com streams culturally and historically significant films from Asia and the Pacific that entertain, educate and inspire viewers to think beyond boundaries. With the latest streaming technology, subscribers have unlimited access to our films in DVD quality.

Who are we?

We are an experienced team of Asia and Pacific film programmers working in concert with notable scholars, critics, and curators who carefully select our films. Our curators and AsiaPacificFilms.com’s president Jeannette Hereniko are members of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC), a well-respected international organization. Every year NETPAC awards prizes at major international film festivals.

What’s our storyline?

By acquiring digital rights and streaming our film collection on our website, we give our subscribers access to half of the world’s films: films made by Asians and Pacific Islanders.
Fact: 95 percent of these films are never seen outside of their own countries because mainstream distributors don’t bring them to the global market, or filmmakers from these areas lack access to distribution channels.
Our curators -- experts in Asian and Pacific cinema studies – hand-pick our films for their cultural nuances and historical significance, and for their themes, filmic techniques and styles.
Our film selections present artistic works that offer viewers a broad historical and cultural context about Asia and Pacific. We are creating an online library and archive because we believe the virtual environment is the best way to keep our cinematic heritage in perpetual circulation.
AsiaPacificFilms.com features high-quality reviews, excusive interviews, theme-based searches, online commenting, podcasts, and much more.
Our filmmakers -- among them, renowned directors from China, Korea, India, Iran, and Southeast Asia -- receive royalties. A portion of our profits go to support the important work of NETPAC. In the future, a special research and development fund will support future film projects of filmmakers who have contributed films to this website.

Link: http://www.asiapacificfilms.com/

Conference Announcement: Film and Cinema in Singapore

Conference date: 6 Oct 2011 - 7 Oct 2011 

Venue: Singapore; venue to be confirmed

Organisers: Jointly organised by Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore and Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University

Call for papers - deadline 2 April 2011

This conference will serve as a platform for both scholars and practitioners to review existing paradigms in addition to charting new approaches and directions into the study of film and cinema in Singapore. Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:
- Historical Evolution
- Geographies of Cinema
- Audience Reception
- Archiving Film
- Cultural and Media Policies and Politics
- Cultural Economy and Film Industry
- Semiotics
- Film Genres (Mainstream/Independent Films)
- Film & Visual/Installation Arts
- Cinematography
- Filmmakers & Artistes
- Film Research 

For more information: 

http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=1122

This is not necessarily Japan-related, but it is always good to see what's going on at film and cinema conferences.