Got some info sent down to me yesterday from the good folks down at the Japan Film Festival Los Angeles (which is now in its second year), and while a little short notice, you still have time to make it down to the symposium they're having today where you can meet film legend Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Here are the details:
Theme: Creating Films for an International AudienceJFFLA Dates And Times
Date: March 10 (Tue)
Time: Open 4:30pm Start 5:00pm
Place: UCLA Korn Convocation Hall
Admission: Free
Special Guest: Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japan Film Festival Committee and Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy are proud to present prolific Japanese director; Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Mr. Kurosawa will speak about his experiences as a director and explain how to correlate Japanese culture through film. There will be a Q&A session at the end of this presentation.
Do not miss this exciting event!!
Due to the limited seating, please RSVP to contact@jffla.org with your name and number of attendees.
Here's also some quick information on the film festival which is coming to you this April 10 - 26 (look for another post about the JFFLA in the near future).
L.A. area
April 10 to 16
Laemmle’s Monica 4-Plex (Santa Monica)
1332 2nd Street
Santa Monica, 90401
310-394-9741
L.A. area
April 17 to 19
Downtown Independent (Downtown Los Angeles)
251 S. Main Street
Los Angeles, California 90012
Irvine area
Date: April 25 (Sat) and April 26 (Sun)
Starplex Cinema
4626 Barranca Parkway, Irvine, CA 92604
Check out the JFFLA site here.