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Short Length Competition / Short2(Total:75min.)
Schedule <Year/Duration> ※…Audio Visual Hall …Convention Hall
Home / Dreaming Novelist / Fragrance of Smoke
Jul.15(Sun) 17:30 Jul.19(Thu) 10:30
Home
<2012/15min.>
Four months after the passing of his beloved wife, Keisuke tries to move on while his daughter Mai struggles to hold on to her memories. They both share the same pain, but can’t console each other. What does it take to rebuild their relationship?
©AMUSS Film Partners, 2012
Director/Kosuke Sasaki, Megumi Iwasa
Sasaki and Iwasa formed AMUSS and began filmmaking at Aoyama Gakuin University under the guidance of Takashi Uchiyama. Tears for You, the first production of AMUSS, was screened at Tokyo Student Film Festival and Tango Local Film Festival. Their second Home won Grand Prix at Isezaki Film Festival and screened at Toho Cinemas Student Film Festival and Aoyama Filmate 2012.
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Dreaming Novelist
<2011/30min.>
Tatsuo is an aspiring mystery writer with no talent. His new manuscript ends up in a garbage bin. On the same night, a high school girl appears before him claiming she is the protagonist of his novel and that she has come to save it. A pop and lovely heart-warming Sci-Fi comedy.
©PANPPOKOPINA
Director/Shinichirou Ueda
Born 1984, Ueda has been making films since he was in junior high. He made three feature films while he was in high school and decided to become a professional director. He formed a filmmakers collaborative PANPOKOPINA when he was twenty five and produced four films.
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Fragrance of Smoke
<2012/30min.>
Rio is a high school girl who collects cigarette butts, which belong to her classmate Shoji, a boy she secretly adores. One day, her parents discover her secret treasure. A sensitive portrait of a delicate adolescent girl.
©ASTROSANDWICH
Director/Yusaku Okamoto
Born 1980 in Niigata, Okamoto has worked at a production company and now works as a freelance director and a web designer. He directs shorts, music videos, web-based TV episodes, and behind the scenes features. His films have screened at Short Shorts Film Festival and others.