[Event on April 20 (Mon)] Directors & Producers Take the Stage! How the Venice Film Festival Triple Winner 'LOST LAND' Was Released - Dialogue for BRANC #13
IID, Inc., operator of the visual industry media 'Branc', will host the 13th 'Dialogue for BRANC' event on April 20. Creators of the Venice-winning film 'LOST LAND' will discuss international co-production.
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IID, Inc. (Headquarters: Nakano-ku, Tokyo; President: Hiroshi Miyagawa), which operates the visual industry-focused media "Branc", will hold the 13th offline event "Dialogue for BRANC" on Monday, April 20, under the theme "How the Rohingya-language film 'LOST LAND' came to be released - The trajectory of the Venice triple-winner and the practice of international co-production and Impact Production."
"Dialogue for BRANC" is an event that invites visual industry professionals as guests to deepen the dialogue about the future of industry business. The guests for this session are Akio Fujimoto, director of "LOST LAND", producer Kazutaka Watanabe, and consulting producer Eric Nyari.
Director Akio Fujimoto's latest work, "LOST LAND", which has garnered global attention by winning three awards including the Special Jury Prize in the Orizzonti Competition section of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, will be released nationwide on April 24. This film features a cast of Rohingya people, considered one of the most persecuted ethnic groups in the world, and is a feature-length dramatic film where the primary language is Rohingya. It is also noteworthy for having been produced with an eye toward international expansion from the planning stage, utilizing the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's overseas expansion support project managed by VIPO (Visual Industry Promotion Organization).
In this event, we have invited the producer and director of this film to talk about the production background, the behind-the-scenes of international co-production, and the practice of social transformation (Impact Production) through film.
■ Speaker Profiles (Titles omitted)
● Akio Fujimoto
Filmmaker
Born in Osaka in 1988. Studied film production at Visual Arts College Osaka. His feature debut "Passage of Life" (2017), depicting a Myanmar family living in Japan, won the Best Asian Future Film Award and the Spirit of Asia Award by the Japan Foundation Asia Center at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival. He released his second feature film "Along the Sea (Japan-Vietnam International Co-Production 2020)", depicting Vietnamese technical interns. The film won the 3rd PFF "Nagisa Oshima Award" and the Gold Prize at the 2021 "Kaneto Shindo Awards". His latest work dealing with Rohingya refugees, "LOST LAND", won the Special Jury Prize in the Orizzonti section of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.
● Kazutaka Watanabe
Film Producer
"Dialogue for BRANC" is an event that invites visual industry professionals as guests to deepen the dialogue about the future of industry business. The guests for this session are Akio Fujimoto, director of "LOST LAND", producer Kazutaka Watanabe, and consulting producer Eric Nyari.
Director Akio Fujimoto's latest work, "LOST LAND", which has garnered global attention by winning three awards including the Special Jury Prize in the Orizzonti Competition section of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, will be released nationwide on April 24. This film features a cast of Rohingya people, considered one of the most persecuted ethnic groups in the world, and is a feature-length dramatic film where the primary language is Rohingya. It is also noteworthy for having been produced with an eye toward international expansion from the planning stage, utilizing the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's overseas expansion support project managed by VIPO (Visual Industry Promotion Organization).
In this event, we have invited the producer and director of this film to talk about the production background, the behind-the-scenes of international co-production, and the practice of social transformation (Impact Production) through film.
■ Speaker Profiles (Titles omitted)
● Akio Fujimoto
Filmmaker
Born in Osaka in 1988. Studied film production at Visual Arts College Osaka. His feature debut "Passage of Life" (2017), depicting a Myanmar family living in Japan, won the Best Asian Future Film Award and the Spirit of Asia Award by the Japan Foundation Asia Center at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival. He released his second feature film "Along the Sea (Japan-Vietnam International Co-Production 2020)", depicting Vietnamese technical interns. The film won the 3rd PFF "Nagisa Oshima Award" and the Gold Prize at the 2021 "Kaneto Shindo Awards". His latest work dealing with Rohingya refugees, "LOST LAND", won the Special Jury Prize in the Orizzonti section of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.
● Kazutaka Watanabe
Film Producer