SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL 2011

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                                                                        October 27, 2011

Announcement of Result of Audiences’ Choices
Feature Length Competition: “Tucker & Dale vs Evil”
Short Length Competition: “A Drop of Memories”

SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL (sponsored by: Saitama Prefecture, Kawaguchi City, SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL Committee, and others) has launched to discover and support talented filmmakers in 2004 and completed the 8th edition, which was held from October 8 (Sat) to 16 (Sun), 2011. Audiences judged each film with a score from 1 to 5. These two movies received the highest average score from audiences.

Feature Length: “Tucker & Dale vs Evil” (2010/Canada/88min) 
Director: Eli Craig

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Tucker and Dale are two well-meaning hillbillies vacationing in a cabin in the middle of the woods. When a group of young college kids go camping in the woods, they mistake Tucker and Dale as serial killers. One misunderstanding leads to another and the situation becomes out of control.

Voices:
▶ It is an entertaining masterpiece, which has thoughtful theme and sweetness and is much more than mere parody of other splatter movies!!!
▶ Great screenplay with all aspects of horror, comedy and love story.
▶ No one killed by someone else even though this is a splatter film. Although this is sure scary, we could smile in the end.

Short Length:“A Drop of Memories”(2011/Japan/23min)
Director: Daisuke Hatanaka
*Received also Best Picture for Short Length Competition by juries

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Rieko’s mother suffers from dementia and thinks Rieko is her caretaker. Her sister suggests Rieko to take her mother to a movie, her favorite pastime. Not knowing what else to do, she takes her to a movie theater with her father.  

Voices:
▶ Although this film deals with a heavy theme “dementia”, it is a beautiful film which audiences could feel warm in the end.
▶ This film was very good because the film depicts sorrow not as sadness but as   something with hopes. I thought “moment with a family” is truly important.
▶ Direction of timing and afterglow is superb, even though this is a short film. I could deeply feel what the director intended to express through this film, because all actors were really great.