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Akiko Ooku The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), in collaboration with Children Meet Cinema, which runs filmmaking workshops for children, will present  TIFF 2018: Teens Meet Cinema , a production workshop for junior high school students, as a special project of the festival’s Youth Section, following the success of last year’s workshop. This project strengthens TIFF’s vision, Enlightening, which aims to foster a future for film and to cultivate young talent. With award-winning director Akiko OOKU, who received the Audience Award for  Tremble All You Want  at the 30th TIFF, as the lead mentor, students will develop a script, shoot and edit it with professional filmmakers and crew mainly in Roppongi, Tokyo, where TIFF is held from late July to late August 2018. The completed film will have its world premiere at the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival, to be held from October 25 to November 3, 2018 at Roppongi Hills and other venues in Tokyo. Director Akiko OOKU  

The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is pleased to announce that we will be highlighting the work of  legendary actor Koji YAKUSHO and emergent animation director Masaaki YUASA  at the 31st TIFF, running  October 25 - November 3, 2018 . This year’s TIFF  Japan Now  section will shine a spotlight on the internationally acclaimed actor  Koji   YAKUSHO , hosting a retrospective of his works as leading actor, from classic films to his latest masterpiece, demonstrating his indelible contributions to the Japanese film industry, as well as to foreign co-productions.  Over a stellar 40-year career, Yakusho has won best actor awards at a variety of international film festivals, such as with  Cure  (1997) at TIFF,  Warm Water Under the Red Bridge  (2001) at the Chicago International Film Festival,  Walking My Life  (2007) at Film Madrid,  The Woodsman and the Rain  (2011) at the Dubai International Film Festival and  The World of Kanako  (2014) at the Sitges Film Festiva

Radio Festival, the official webradio of the Festival de Cannes, launched to mark the event’s 70 th  anniversary, is returning in 2018! From May 8 th  to May 19 th , experience the event in different way: live on Radio Festival via the Festival de Cannes official website and mobile app! A professional, freewheeling and wide-ranging radio station is back… Radio Festival 2018©FDC A space for analysis, a laboratory for ideas,bringing together the widest audience… Radio Festival has a daily schedule of programs offering debates, encounters and interviews, news and backstage insights from the Official Selection and reportages from the Croisette… Radio Festival will also have a musical playlist linked to the cinema, with an emphasis on film scores from previous selections, but also soundtracks from lesser known, rare and independent films. Radio Festival will broadcast 24 hours a day, in French (with simultaneous translation of interviews in English). And new for 2018

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote © Alan Amato Things are looking up for Terry Gilliam's film,  The Man Who Killed Don Quixote . On Wednesday 9 May 2018, the French court dismissed the request by Paulo Branco and his production company Alfama Films Production to ban the film from being screened during the Closing night of the Festival de Cannes, on  Saturday 19 May. As such, Paulo Branco and his production company Alfama Films Production have, naturally, seen their claim for compensation from the Festival de Cannes thrown out, having openly denigrated the event in the press and on social media, asserting that its organisers had no right to select  The Man Who Killed Don Quixote  to be presented in Cannes. The campaign of attempted intimidation orchestrated by Paulo Branco and his lawyer son have therefore proved fruitless. The urgent applications judge has, through this decision, confirmed that contrary to what the Brancos have continued to claim (among other slanderous

Liza Diño, Millie Dizon, Brillante Mendoza, Wilson Tieng, Takeo Hisamatsu, Jeremy Segay, Ice Seguerra Award ceremony:   2018 Sinag Maynila Film Festival Gabi ng Parangal  (Awards Night) Edition:  4th Date:  March 11, 2018 Venue:  Conrad Hotel, Pasay City Metro Manila, Philippines Hosts:  Cerah Hernandez, Andre Co SHORT FILMS CATEGORY Entries 1.        “Cesar & Magda” by Pamela Barriors 2.        “The Duwende” by Odin B. Fernandez 3.        “Firestarter” by Jill Singson Urdaneta 4.        “Halusinasyon” by John Agcalis 5.        “Kalye FM” by Tom Nava 6.        “Pompoms” by AJ Amar Best Short Film:  “The Duwende” by Odin B. Fernandez DOCUMENTARIES CATEGORY Entries 1.        “Am-amma” (Heirloom) by Dexter Macaraeg 2.        “Halaga” by Kristine Anne Escamillas 3.        “Journeyman Finds Home: The Simone Rota Story” by Albert Almendralejo and Maricel Cariaga 4.        “Mahal, 2017” by Janine Patricia Santos 5.        “Tsuper

Awards: Golden Disc Awards 2018 Edition: 32nd Date: January 10-11, 2018 Venue:  Korea International Exhibition Center, Ilsan, Seoul, South Korea Hosts: Lee Seung-gi, Lee Sung-kyung, Kang So-ra, Sung Si-kyung SPECIAL AWARDS Genie Music Popularity Award: EXO CeCi Asia Icon Award: EXO, TWICE Global Popularity Award: EXO Rookie of the Year: Wanna One Global Popular Artist: EXO GENRE AND OTHER AWARDS Best Rock Band: Hyukoh Best New Artist: Wanna One Best R&B/Soul: Suran Best OST: “I Will Go to You like the First Snow” by Ailee for “Goblin” Best Girl Group: GFRIEND Best Boy Group: BTOB MAJOR AWARDS Disc Daesang (Album of the Year): “Love Yourself: Her” by BTS Bonsang: “Love Yourself: Her” by BTS “The War” by EXO “Holiday Night” by Girls' Generation “Flight Log: Arrival” by GOT7 “Be Ordinary” by Hwang Chi Yeul “The Code” by MONSTA X “W, Here” by NU'EST W “Teen, Age” by