Mr. Kobayashi Masahiro is nominated for the competition at this year's
festival.
The Grand-Prix Award is one hundred thousand euros.
That's about seventeen million yen.
Amazing...
But I think that's just tribute to authors.
Making films needs a lot of money and if we cannot receive reward, it's
difficult to make films... Also it's not good enough just to make salable
commercial movies.
In such a subtle balance, this kind of support encourages us.
Unfortunately his film missed the award, but one member of the jury ran to him saying his work was great. That's a wonderful thing.
The respectful staff and jury made this film festival excellent.