Tokyo International Film Festival

Ichiyama Shozo (Japan 1963), the Programming Director of the Tokyo International Film Festival since last year, was also in charge of selecting their films from 1992 to 1999. Then in 2000 he launched the Film Festival Tokyo FILMeX and served as its director.

Founded in 1985, the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is the only Japanese event accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF), and one of the leading movie festivals in Asia. The first four editions were biannual.

How to make the Tokyo International Film Festival more attractive to Japanese audiences -  that was the task Kohei Ando took on four years ago when he became the festival’s programming advisor. “I was teaching cinema at the university and my then student asked how I would make the festival more appealing.