EXPO PLL Talks
EXPO PLL Talks
Director KAWASE Naomi takes the stage! EXPO PLL Talks
"Art & Impact: Thinking about the Post-Expo World with Innovators" vol.9
The 9th EXPO PLL Talks "Art & Impact: Thinking about the Post-Expo World with Innovators" will feature film director KAWASE Naomi as a guest. Director Kawase has been appointed as the Theme Project Producer and Senior Advisor for the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo.
"What have our predecessors left us, the conversation we need to have now, and how do we envision the future that follows?" We asked Director Kawase what message she wants to convey through her film and the Expo.
We will also be talking about the Nara International Film Festival 2024, which will begin on Friday, September 20th. This is a rare opportunity to hear Director Kawase speak up close. Please come along!
Event Overview
Date and time: Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 18:30-19:45 (reception opens at 18:00)
Venue: Sakura Room, 1st floor, Hotel Obana (1110 Takabatake-cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture)
Guest: Director KAWASE Naomi (Film director, Osaka-Kansai Expo Theme Project Producer)
Moderator: SUZUKI Daisuke (CEO of ARTLOGUE Inc., General Producer of Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival)
Participation fee: 1,000 yen (tax included)
Capacity: First 40 people
Organized by: Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, Osaka Kansai International Arts Festival Executive Committee (within ARTLOGUE Inc.)
For inquiries, please contact: info@artlogue.org (Ishigaki / ARTLOGUE Inc.)
*Please contact ARTLOGUE Inc. for all inquiries.
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KAWASE Naomi
A filmmaker based in Nara who continues to create films. Her consistent pursuit of "reality" transcends the realms of documentary and fiction, and has won numerous awards at film festivals around the world. At the Cannes Film Festival, his film "Suzaku (97)" won the Camera d'Or at the youngest age ever, and "The Mourning Forest (07)" won the Grand Prix. Other notable works include "The Second Window," "An," "Light," and "Morning Comes."
In 2010, she launched the Nara International Film Festival, was appointed as the official documentary director of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and will serve as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and a producer and senior advisor for the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo Theme Project from 2021. In her private life, she grows vegetables and rice. She is currently working on a new film scheduled for release in 2025.
"2025 Osaka Kansai Expo Signature Pavilion produced by KAWASE Naomi"
The Nara International Film Festival 2024 is about to begin! (September 20th - 23rd, 2024)
SUZUKI Daisuke
CEO of ARTLOGUE Inc., General Producer of Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival.
Born on Culture Day, November 3, 1977. Founded his own company after participating in a research project at the Global COE of the Urban Research Plaza of Osaka City University. Winner of the Good Design Award in 2014, finalist in the Kyoto University GTEP Program (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) in 2015, and winner of the OIH Award for Global Innovation at Miraino Pitch (Business Contest: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Kinki Bureau of Telecommunications) in 2016. Aiming to create the world's largest "Osaka Kansai International Art Festival" on the occasion of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, "Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival" will be held from 2022.
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