'Tokyo Film Festival: Finalists of Amazon Prime Video Take
Finalists of Amazon Prime Video Take
For
the second year in a row TIFF is hosting the Amazon Prime Video Take One Awards
This year
veteran director Yukisada Isao presided over a jury that sifted through 83 entries to come up
Of this
number five are female, including fourteen-year-old Asumi Momoha
” Also, he
found entries by women filmmakers more “surprising
” “They’re tackling
their themes in a fresh way,” he explained
Acknowledging that
working with new directors, scriptwriters and actors is “important,” Kodama added that it “also carries
” By sponsoring
the Take One Awards, he explained, Amazon is able to evaluate a large number of
“So, we’re
more likely to have a success than by randomly working with new directors,” he
Last year’s
winner, Kim Yunsoo, said that he is working on a screenplay in cooperation with
” “But I’m
very grateful I was selected as a finalist,” he continued
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