Press Release2018/10/4
Talents Tokyo Organizing Committee (TOKYO FILMeX)
Announcement: TALENTS TOKYO 2018 participants (Talents) and Experts,
9 selected projects for the “NEXT MASTERS SUPPORT PROGRAM,”a initiative to support the alumni.
During the 6 days of the 19th TOKYO FILMeX held from November 19-24, 2018, the talentdevelopment and networking platform “Talents Tokyo 2018” (TT2018) will be conducted under
the supervision of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Arts Council Tokyo, the JapanFoundation Asia Center and the Talents Tokyo Organizing Committee (TOKYO FILMeX), andin cooperation with Berlinale Talents.
TT2018 brings together 15 upcoming promising filmmakers and producers. Each participant
will have opportunity to present his/her own project.
The Talents Tokyo aims to inspire promising filmmakers to develop their voices and become the“Next Masters”.
From 2011 to 2013, the filmmaker development project “Talent Campus Tokyo”, which waspreviously called “Next Masters Tokyo” in 2010, has been run, and in 2014 the program wasreformed as “Talents Tokyo”.
The same year, TT organizers decided to start a new initiative to support alumni from these
events by providing grants from (a) Project Development Fund and (b) International Promotion
Fund.
Today we announce this year’s selected projects. Talents Tokyo will award a Project
Development Fund grants of up to 1 million JPY or an International Promotion Fund grant of up
to 500,000 JPY to the selected projects.
Outline:Title:

Talents Tokyo 2018 (TT 2018)

Dates:

From Monday, November 19 to Saturday, November 24, 2018
(6 days during the TOKYO FILMeX 2018)

Venue:

Yurakucho Asahi Hall etc

Organizers:

Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
The Japan Foundation Asia Center
Talents Tokyo Organizing Committee (TOKYO FILMeX)In Cooperation with:In Collaboration with:
Official home page:

Berlinale Talents
Goethe Institut Tokyo
http://talents-tokyo.jp

Contact E-mailtalents@talents-tokyo.jp

The List of Main 'Experts' for the Talents Tokyo 2018:

Vimukthi JAYASUNDARA(Director)
Born in 1977 in Sri Lanka, Vimukthi Jayasundara studied at Le Fresnoy, Studionational des arts contemporains, in France. His directorial debut, The Forsaken Land
won the Caméra d’Or Prize at the Cannes Festival in 2005. Between Two Worlds, his
second film, was selected for the International Competition at the Venice InternationalFilm Festival in 2009, while Mushrooms was screened in the Quinzaine desRéalisateurs in Cannes in 2011. His latest directorial venture Dark in the White Lightsaw its world premiere in the International competition section at the Locarno
International Film festival in 2015. He was directing mentor at Busan Asian Filmacademy in 2016 and Dean of Colombo Film and Television Academy in Sri Lanka.
Raymond PHATHANAVIRANGOON(producer)
Raymond is the Executive Director of the Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab (SEAFIC), a9-month intensive script lab for Southeast Asian filmmakers. In addition, he producesinternational co-productions such as Boo Junfeng’s Apprentice (Cannes Un CertainRegard 2016) and Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Samui Song (Opening Film, Venice Days
2017) and Headshot (Berlin Panorama 2011), among many others. He also previously
served as international programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival and theToronto Reel Asian Film Festival as well as Programme Consultant for the Hong Kong
International Film Festival and Cannes Critics' Week. Prior to that, he was the Directorof Marketing & Special Projects (Acquisitions) for international sales agent Fortissimo
Films. He acted as a Reading Committee Member for the Hong Kong-Asia Film

Financing Forum (HAF) and was an advisory member of the Asian Film Awards (AFA).
He was a jury member at festivals such as Berlinale, Sarajevo, Vladivostok, Seattle,Antalya, and others.
Juliette SCHRAMECK(World Sales)
Born and raised in Paris, Juliette studied Law and Business (Masters in Law at Paris IIand Sciences-Po Paris) while working in one of the Latin Quarter’s finest movietheaters. She then specialized in film distribution at the French film school La Fémis,and began working in the theatrical distribution team at Les Films du Losange, thecompany founded by Eric Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder, before joining theinternational sales department. She joined French mini major mk2 in 2007, where she
was first in charge of sales to Europe before overseeing distribution, sales, acquisitions
and coproductions as Managing Director of mk2 films.The library she manages includes
directors such as Charles Chaplin, David Lynch, François Truffaut, RobertBresson, Claude Chabrol, Gus Van Sant and Xavier Dolan, to name a few.The latest
films she acquired or coproduced were Cold War by Pawel Pawlikowski (Best DirectorPrize – Cannes 2018) , Ash Is Purest White by Jia Zhang Ke (Competition – Cannes2018), the Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda collections, and many more titles by renown
international directors as well as young talents.
Florian WEGHORN ( Program manager of Berlinare Talents)
Born in 1976 in Oldenburg, Florian holds an M.A. in Theatre, Film and Television
studies from the University of Cologne with a thesis on ‘The Visual Language ofMelancholy in Youth Film.’ Florian Joined the Berlinale team in 2002, initially workingfor Generation section. From 2008 to 2014, he was the section’s Co-director and acurator of its short and feature films. He is a member of the selection committee for theBerlinale Competition.
In addition, Florian has worked for various other international film festivals, film
founds and cultural institutions and is a member of the European Film Academy. He isthe author and editor of several publications covering film and youth culture.

The List of Selected 'Talents' for the Talents Tokyo 2018:
Directors:

Zi GAO(CHINA)
Hao ZHOU(CHINA)
Jenny SUEN(HONG KONG)
JIMBO Yoshimasa(JAPAN)
Abdul ZAINIDI(BRUNEI)
Donggyun HAN(REPUBRIC OF KOREA)
Xaisongkham INDUANGCHANTHY (LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATICREPUBLIC)
Amand EU(MALAYSIA)Carlo Francisco MANATADO(The PHILPPINES)
I-Hsuan SU(TAIWAN)
Chia-Hsin LIU(TAIWAN)
Sompot CHIDGASORNPONGSE(THAILAND)
Patiparn BOONTARIG(THAILAND)

Producers:

IMAI Taro(JAPAN)
Dan KOH(SINGAPORE)
The Selection Committee is formed by IKEDA Takaaki (Film buyer/ NHK Enterprises, Inc.), ICHIYAMA
Shozo (Talents Tokyo, Chairperson/ TOKYO FILMeX, Director).

FUKATSU Junko(writer/TOKYO FILMeX Organizing Committee), KAMIYA Naoki (Talents Tokyo/TOKYO FILMeX) and KANAYA Shigeo (Talents Tokyo/ TOKYO FILMeX) participated in thepreliminary selection process.

As of October 4, 2018, this information may be subject to change.

Next Masters Support Program:
Selected Projects:a）Development FundZoljargal PUREVDASH (2017, MONGOLIA) <I wish I could HIBERNATE>
Supatcha THIPSENA (2017, THAILAND) <DOI BOY>
Pham Ngoc LAN (2017, VIETNAM) <Cu Li Never Cries>
Siew Hua YEO (2015, SINGAPORE) <Stranger Eyes>
HAYAKAWA Chie (2014, JAPAN) <PLAN75>
NAKAMURA Mayu (2016, JAPAN) <Wondering Taxi>
Armi Rae CACANINDIN (2014, The PHILIPPINES) <The Empire >Gita FARA (2016, INDONESIA) <The Sea speaks His Name>b) International Promotion Found
Kavich NEANG(2016,Cambodia) <Last Night I Saw You Smiling >The Selection Committee is formed by IKEDA Takaaki (Film buyer/ NHK Enterprises, Inc.), ICHIYAMAShozo (Talents Tokyo Chairperson/ TOKYO FILMeX, Director).

KAMIYA Naoki (Talents Tokyo/ TOKYO FILMeX), KANAYA Shigeo (Talents Tokyo/ TOKYOFILMeX) participated in the preliminary selection process.

As of October4, 2018, this information may be subject to change

Contact: KANAYA Shigeo
Talents Tokyo/TOKYO FILMeXTel: +81-3-6459-2684
E-mail: talents@talents-tokyo.jp