17th Japanese Film Festival



Promotion leaflet doubled as origami paper

Umm.. ya - I'm the failed blogger (again!) as the festival has ended as of Dec 8th, Melbourne being the last stop. It had made a tour around the country, started since September. I found out about this annual event back in 2011, and the movie I watched was Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror and Tokyo Marble Chocolate. I went as a audience by myself.

 

Thereafter I found out about volunteering for the film festival and roped in my partner-in-crime to volunteer in the 2012 festival. We did both pre-festival and festival sessions. Pre-festival sessions are basically promotion sessions, we went in to cafes and shops, and asked if we could leave some leaflet (booklets in the past years) in their shops as promotion. Festival sessions are sessions during the festival itself, we gave out survey forms for completion and collect them back thereafter. This year, we also need to man the film festival booth. It was fun and easy volunteering session. ^^

We watched Thermae Romae and Bunny Drop. Initially we wanted to catch Rurouni Kenshin but it was sold out.

 

Up the flight of staircase to cinemas

Fast forward to this year - we volunteered again as we had fun last year.This year we were assigned to ACMI again. Historically, there are two venues in Melbourne - ACMI and Hoyts Melbourne Central. Somehow both times, we were assigned to ACMI.

 

A table was set up across from the staircase, for promotion of movies :)



We were seated here on parts of our duty session

This year's movie list

 Our pick this year... Midsummer Equation, movie version of Galileo ^^

 

Oh look! Masaharu Fukuyama

 

 

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