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Three jurors have been selected for the International Short Film Competition at the Hiroshima International Film Festival 2024!
At the closing ceremony and awards presentation on Sunday, November 24, we will announce the
Hiroshima Grand Prix Award and the Jury Award, which were decided by the three juries.
An “Audience Award” will also be presented based on the audience's votes.
Jury president
Director:Ryosuke HASHIGUCHI
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Born July 13, 1962, in Nagasaki Prefecture. In 1992, his first theatrically released film, "Twenty Years Old Fever," was a huge hit that broke theater records. His second film, "Sindbad on the Beach" (1995), won numerous awards, including the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Grand Prix at the Dunkirk International Film Festival, and the Turin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and also won the Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay in Japan. His third film, "Hash!" (2002), was entered in the Director's Fortnight at the 54th Cannes Film Festival and was released in over 69 countries around the world. It won numerous awards, including the Agency for Cultural Affairs' Best Film Award. His fourth film, "All Around Us" (2008), his first new work in six years since "Hash!", depicts a ten-year relationship between a married couple who never leave each other no matter what, and has been praised by many in various circles as "a new frontier for Director Hashiguchi," and has won numerous awards, including the Hochi Film Award for Best Director and the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actress. In 2013, he released the 62-minute feature film "Zentai." His first feature film in seven years since "All Around Us," "Lovers" (2015) won numerous awards as a representative masterpiece of Japanese cinema in 2015, including the 89th Kinema Junpo Best Ten Japanese Films, the 70th Mainichi Film Awards Japanese Film Grand Prize, and the 58th Blue Ribbon Award for Best Director. "Mother is Here" is his first feature film in nine years since "Lovers."
juries
Producer:MEGUMI
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Director:Yukihiro MORIGAKI
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He was born on June 30, 1983, in Hiroshima, Japan. He began making documentaries while studying in college. After graduation, he joined a commercial production company and worked as a commercial director until 2017.
In that year, he became independent and established the creator group ""Kujira."" Since then, he has directed several commercials for Softbank, JRA, Shiseido, and others. In 2017, his first feature film ""Goodbye, Grandpa!"" won the Yoshimitsu Morita Memorial Rookie of the Year Award at the Yokohama Film Festival.
He has since directed TV dramas, documentaries, and other visual works. He won the 56th Galaxy Honors for programs recommended in the TV category for ""Edogawa Rampo x Hikari Mitsushima: Soroban ga Koi wo Kataru Hanashi"" (NHK, 2018), and the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association Award for Outstanding Performance in TV Drama for ""The House on the Slope"" (WOWOW, 2019).
Some of his notable works include the TV drama ""Time Limit Investigator 2019"" (TV Asahi, 2019), ""The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window"" (2021), which is his first attempt at live-action manga, and "" How We Work, How We Live"" (2021), a documentary on the people and their work in Japan during the pandemic.
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