Junken International Film Festival
I had a chance to catch up with native New Yorker, now an active member of Hiroshima's creative community,
Lisa Quattlebaum. She is the creative visionary, director and producer of the
upcoming, first annual Junken film festival.
 Lisa describes the birth of Junken on the
festival website
One hot summer night, a few mates cooled off with beers and air conditioning and decided to start
a film festival. Our idea was to create a festival to showcase the grooviest independent films
from around the world - a festival that generates excitement and support for emerging filmmakers
much like ourselves.
Junken aims to be an eclectic, smart, bohemian, international collection of films made by emerging
filmmakers. Naturally, the festival highlights original stories, but Lisa says, "as expats, we are particularly
interested in work created about community, society and merged cultures." Junken is cultural without being pretentious, playful
not childish, clever without ever taking
ourselves too seriously.
Lisa explained that she felt inspired to do something to promote her friends efforts at creating
entertaining independent films set here in Hiroshima.
Namely- Sparky and another film
Flick the Bunny.
I think it is great to see people doing events like this that get the whole community involved as well
as draw on inspiration and talent from around the world. It is so impressive to see people making
that extra creative effort to share something like independent film
with the Hiroshima community. I hope there is a great turn out this year and whether you like the films
or not, I hope something about them might inspire you in some way too.
The Junken Film Festival runs from December 14-16
Click here for more details
jj walsh
November 2007 |
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