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Shinsedai 2010

The very first event planned for the 2nd annual Shinsedai Cinema Festival was the screening that will be held on Friday evening – Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1933 silent classic The Water Magician. Both Shinsedai programmers Jasper Sharp and Chris MaGee knew they wanted to hold a special screening for the second year of the festival as a thank you to the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre community who were so generous in making the Shinsedai Cinema Festival possible. It was internationally renowned film curator, historian and author Jasper Sharp who made the leap and proposed a screening of a silent classic with a modern musical twist. Read More…

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One of the biggest discoveries of the inaugural year of the Shinsedai Cinema Festival were the surreal and humourous short films by Yoshihiro Ito titled Vortex and Others. Now, due to a last minute scheduling change for our 2nd year we are proud to announce the return of Yoshihiro Ito to the Shinsedai Cinema Festival.

Due to contractual issues both DOME Animation and Yu Katsumata’s Oh! Otsuka Drugstore will only be screened in the Jishu Eiga Room once. Both Kazuhiro Goshima’s Different Cities and the Yuki Kawamura Trilogy will continue to be screened multiple times and now joining them will be Yoshihiro Ito’s 1999 55-minute blackly comic romance Have ‘Em Fresh: The Laughing Stomach. Read More…

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Last minute special guest announcement – Gunman Champion star Shaq to attend Shinsedai 2010!

July 14, 2010

If the special guest filmmakers coming to the 2nd annual Shinsedai Cinema Festival weren’t enough now we have a sixth guest making their way to join us for the festivities. Comedian, actor and singer Shaq, star of sugarmountain’s Gunman Champion (screening with Katsuya Tomita’s Off Highway 20 on Saturday, July 24th at 3:45PM), will be [...]

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Shinsedai 2010 partners with the Canadian Film Centre for panel discussion

July 14, 2010

The Shinsedai Cinema Festival is very proud to partner with the Canadian Film Centre for a panel discussion on Saturday, July 24th titled Jishu Eiga: How Independent Japanese Filmmakers Challenge Cultural Imperitives of the Established Japanese Film Industry. Led by Shinsedai Cinema Festival Programmer and Co-director Chris MaGee and including some of the brightest lights [...]

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