Life, Death and Unfulfilled Desires: Teng Congcong on Send Me to the Clouds
Teng Congcong’s bittersweet debut feature Send Me to the Clouds is the latest in a welcome wave of films by female Chinese directors which includes...
Interview with Sisterhood Director Takashi Nishihara and Star Manami Usamaru [OAFF 2019]
With inequality on the rise worldwide and identity politics a hot topic issue, filmmakers everywhere have their work cut out trying to keep up with...
Interview with Genta Matsugami [OAFF 2019]
Born in Hiroshima in 1981, Genta Matsugami is a film director who operates the creative production-house16 bit.inc. He graduated from Osaka University of Arts in...
Interview with Akiyoshi Koba [OAFF 2019]
Akiyoshi Koba is a graduate of Taisho University’s Japanese Language and Literature course. He now works as a part-time lecturer at Nagaoka Zokei University and...
Interview with Yoshinori Sato [OAFF 2019]
Yoshinori Sato was born in Aichi, Japan on February 1975. After graduating from high school, he travelled to the US to study filmmaking at the...
Moments of imperfect harmony: an interview with Catherine Lee
Though the title of Catherine Lee’s documentary short 9 at 38 (2017) is cleverly and enticingly succinct, a possible subtitle could be ‘Orchestral and political...
Interview with the Cast and Crew of Filled with Steam [OAFF 2018]
At the Osaka Asian Film Festival, Filled with Steam (2017) was one of the films screened at the Housen section, a place reserved for films...
Interview with Kohei Takayama [OAFF 2018]
Kohei Takayama was born in Chiba prefecture in 1987. After graduating from Waseda University, he began making indie films such as Ni naru (2015) and...
Interview with the Director and Stars of Bad Poetry Tokyo [OAFF 2018]
Bad Poetry Tokyo is the debut feature from Anshul Chauhan, an animator turned indie film director. Born in India in 1986, Anshul’s main job is...
Interview with Daisuke Miyazaki [OAFF 2018]
Daisuke Miyazaki was born in 1980 in Yokohama, Kanagawa. A passion for analysing films turned into a career when he started making them while studying...