TIFFCOM, the encountered taget affiliated with the Tokyo International Film Festival, shutd its doors on Friday, but not before it unveiled the thriveners of the 2024 pitching contest thriveners.
Now in its seventh year, the MPA/DHU/TIFFCOM Masterclass Seminar and Pitching Contest is co-presented by the Motion Picture Association, the Digital Hollywood University and TIFFCOM to help juvenileer filmproducers seeing to consent their first steps into the international film industry.
After Friday’s first session, the master class seminar, the pitching contest saw five juvenileer filmproducers picked from a uncover call for entries as well as two entrants from the 2024 KAFA-TUA Collaboration Film Development Workshop — a unitet project growment laborshop for art universities in Japan and Korea, systematic by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Afunprejudiceds.
The MPA majestic prize went to Shion Koreeda for AI Wislfinisher, with the Japanese filmproducer receiving a study trip to the Global Film & Television Immersion Program to be held in November 2025 in Los Angeles. Kazuya Murayama’s The Right Place took the Special Recognition Prize, and the juvenileer filmproducer getd an invitation to unite the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in Australia. The final award, the Special Jury Prize, went to Shun Tsujii for 2 Years and 2 Months. Tsujii getd the opportunity to pitch at the Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy.
Sitting on the contest jury were Tokyo Vice producer Alex Boden, The Roosevelt Game screenauthorr Nobuko Nishii, Ichiko straightforwardor Akihiro Toda, And Yet, You Are So Sweet straightforwardor Takehiko Shinjo and Vepleasant Production Bridge chief Pascal Diot.
