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What’s Creative Café？

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Yamagata City of Film organizes a monthly event named Creative Café, where people in Yamagata can exchange opinions and get to know each other without concerning the differences in age, sex, and nationality.

There are two types of Creative Café:

1. an event inviting a guest speaker from culture or film section to talk, discuss or do workshop
2. a tea time providing a space and a cup of tea for people to sit and talk about different themes

The most interesting part of this project is that the council staffs take each turn to organize the event  so that every events are unique and different!

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🌸 The 17th Creative Café “Yamagata Renaissance Project ‘Yamagata Maiko’ Screening & Director Talk!”

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Event Outline

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Date & Time

Wednesday, 6 March 2019  18：30 〜 20：30

 

Venue

Senshin-an

1-4-28 Midori-cho, Yamagata City, Yamagata

• Please use the prefectural parking at the east side of Bunshokan and bring the parking ticket to the venue. We will provide free parking ticket for 2 hours.

 

Admission

• FREE
• No application required

 

Content

Yamagata Renaissance Project is an initiative to produce a series of films that will introduce the appeal of Yamagata’s traditional crafts through new and contemporary eyes and offer young local film talent a chance to hone their skills. In 2018, we have produced a short film spotlighting Yamagata’s traditional culture “Yamagata Maiko (apprentice geisha)”. For this time, we will hold the screening event inviting the director, Mr. Koichi Sato, to talk about the behind the scenes.  

 

Guest

Mr. Koichi Sato

Mr. Koichi Sato was born in 1977 in Tendo city, Yamagata, Japan. He is a filmmaker who has set his heart on presenting Yamagata to the world through cinema. He won a scholarship at the 2005 edition of the Yamagata International Movie Festival and shot “Hidden Youth of Teppei-kun” entirely in the prefecture. For the Yamagata Renaissance Project 2016, he was cameraman for “Yamagata Iron Casting” and helmed “Yamagata Forged Blades” as director. In 2017, he directed the documentary film titled “The World’s ‘Top’ Theater”.

 

Contact

Organized by Yamagata Creative City Promotion Council (Culture Promotion Division, Yamagata City)

Please contact us for further details.