LAUNCH
Dec.3
True Colors Film Festival Launch on December 3
The True Colors Film Festival opens on International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Thursday, December 3, 2020. The festival launch program is as follows:
LAUNCH
3 December 2020
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English and Japanese Subtitles
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Japanese dubbed in English
TCFF Launch Introduction
Featuring Hirotada Ototake, HIKARI, Mei Kayama
TCFF Launch Introduction archive
37 Seconds Online Screening
Japan | 2019 | 115 mins
18:00-20:00 JST / 17:00-19:00 SGT
Exclusive to Japan and Singapore only
Yuma is a 23-year-old comic book artist who has cerebral palsy. She lives with her mother but seeks to lead a more fulfilling life. She tinkers with the idea of becoming an adult manga artist and forges her own unusual path to sexual awakening and independence while at the same time discovering love and forgiveness. This endearing film won the Audience Award and Art Cinema Prize at Berlinale 2020, and Best New Director, Asian Film Awards 2020. Stars Mei Kayama and Shunsuke Daitoh.
37 Seconds Post-Screening Dialogue
Featuring director HIKARI and cast Mei Kayama and Shunsuke Daitoh
20:00-20:45 JST / 19:00-19:45 SGT
Director HIKARI and actors Mei Kayama (Yuma) and Shunsuke Daitoh (Toshiya; caregiver to Yuma) discuss the reception to 37 Seconds and the importance of representation of people with disabilities in film and other forms of entertainment.
Availability: Worldwide via Vimeo, links below (The links will be published at a later date) –
• Japanese, with Japanese Subtitles and Japanese Sign Language
• Japanese, with English Subtitles
• Japanese dubbed in English, with English Subtitles
37 Seconds Post-Screening Dialogue archive
Speakers
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Hirotada Ototake
Ototake Hirotada (born 1976) is a Japanese sports writer, a primary school teacher, and a member of Tokyo’s Metropolitan Board of Education from Osaka, Japan. Born with tetra-amelia syndrome, he has been using a wheelchair since childhood. Ototake wrote his best-selling memoir No One’s Perfect, which sold more than 6 million copies when he was a student at Waseda University. He is currently working on a project to walk with the prosthetic legs.
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HIKARI
Originally from Osaka, Japan, HIKARI is an award-winning writer, director and producer.
Her debut short film Tsuyako (Drama, 2011, USC Thesis) visited over 100 film festivals worldwide receiving 50 awards including DGA Student Award for the Best Female Filmmaker, and the film was qualified for Oscar in 2012 and 2013.
She’s currently in postproduction for her first feature film 37 Seconds (formerly Cantering) which she had participated in 2016 Sundance Institute/NHK Screenwriting workshop, Film Independent’s Screenwriting Lab and 2017 Directing Lab. HIKARI holds an MA in Film and TV production from USC School of Cinematic Arts.
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Mei Kayama
Mei Kayama was born in 1994 in Osaka, Japan. She was born as a premature baby which caused her congenital cerebral palsy and became physically disabled. Upon her graduation from Faculty of Social Welfare of Nihon Fukushi University, she began working for a social welfare company in Toyonaka city, Osaka where she’s a full time staff in the Community Welfare Division.
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Shunsuke Daitoh
Daito Shunsuke is a Japanese actor born in 1986, Osaka, Japan.
Since he made his acting debut in the 2005’s TV drama Nobuta wo Produce, he is active in a wide range of movies, TV shows, and stage productions.
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