French actress Isabelle Huppert reunites with Brillante Mendoza at 34th Tokyo Film Fest1
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French actress Isabelle Huppert reunites with Brillante Mendoza at 34th Tokyo Film Fest

Oct 3, 2021, 4:20 AM
Boy Villasanta

Boy Villasanta

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Presented by The Japan Foundation and co-presented by The Japan Foundation Asia Center, “Conversation Series at Asia Lounge,” the forum is an annual component of the fest which navigates the current situation of filmmaking in various parts of the world.

AFTER nine long years of not officially working with each other, respected French and Hollywood actress Isabelle Huppert and internationally acclaimed Filipino director Brillante Ma. Mendoza, are set to appear together in a unique collaboration in Japan at the end of this month.

Isabelle who starred in the action adventure “Captive” in 2021 which Brillante directed not only will be the President of the Jury of the international derby of the 34th Tokyo International Film Festival on October 30, 2021 when Mendoza screens two of his newest works—“Payback” about youth violence in the main competition and “Gensan Punch” about a Japanese paraplegic boxer who trained in General Santos City in the Philippines in the Gala Premiere—but she will also sit as one of the panelists in a virtual conference on the state of world cinema scheduled at the festival.

Presented by The Japan Foundation and co-presented by The Japan Foundation Asia Center, “Conversation Series at Asia Lounge,” the forum is an annual component of the fest which navigates the current situation of filmmaking in various parts of the world.

According to the TIFF 2021 press briefs, this year’s “Conversation Series” which carries the theme “Crossing Borders,” will be advised by a committee led by filmmaker Kore-Eda Hirokazu.

“Directors and actors from various countries and regions in Asia and beyond will gather at the Asia Lounge to engage in discussion with their Japanese counterparts. We hope the event will be as vibrant as last year’s, which had over 12,000 viewers and received many questions during the live sessions,” the press statement said.
“Guests will share their thoughts and sentiments about film and filmmaking and discuss what it takes to transcend borders. The organizers will invite as many international guests as possible to Japan so that they can engage in face-to-face conversations at the Asia Lounge,” added the media release.

The sessions will be broadcast live from the festival venue in Tokyo Midtown Hibiya every day for eight days.

The committee members in alphabetical order are: Araki Keiko (Festival Director, Pia Film Festival); Fukuma Miyuki (Producer, Bunbuki, Inc.); Ichiyama Shozo (Programming Director, Tokyo International Film Festival); Ishisaka Kenji (Senior Programmer, Tokyo International Film Festival / Professor, Japan Institute of the Moving Image); Kore-Eda Hirokazu (Filmmaker); and Tsuchida Tamaki (Program Coordinator, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival / Assistant Professor, Waseda University).

The guests include, aside from Mendoza and Huppert, Nagase Masatoshi, Kamila Andini, Sode Yukiko, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Nishijima Hidetoshi, Bahman Ghobadi, Hashimoto Ai and Hamaguchi Ryusuke.

Further details, according to the press advisory, including the full lineup and instructions on how to sign up for the sessions, will be announced in mid-October.

Tags: #showbiz, #movies, #virtualevents, #TokyoFilmFestival, #ConversationSeriesAtAsiaLounge


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