SAPPORO SHORT FEST 2022

AWARDS / JURY

Shinya Kawai
Film Producer | JAPAN

In charge of the production for [The Antarctika] in1983.
[Take me for Skiing] in1987 as the chief producer for.
Since 1987 he was engaged to set up the new operation film theater [Cine Switch Ginza ], which screens japanese film and overseas film regularly by turns.
For this theater he produced 7Japanese films from [Yen Family](Directed by YojirouTakita) in1988 to [LoveLetter](Directed by Syunji Iwai) in 1995.
In1990 [Going to Hospital] according to his personal experience.
In1996 [Swallowtail Butterfly]. ’98[Ring] . In2000 [A One And A Two:YiYi](Directed by Edward Yang/Canne Film Festival Best Director::National Society of Film Critics Award,USA: BestFilm).
Other then, ’02[JamFilms] (Short Films Collection), ’04[Rikidozan](Japan-Korea co-production), ’08[Love Exposure]...


Jennifer Coronado
Senior Producer, Art Services & Development | USA

Jennifer Coronado joined the team at Industrial Light & Magic back in September of 2000 as a coordinator before shifting into supporting the President of ILM. Since that time Jennifer has held several key positions within ILM including the roles of Talent Manager and Marketing and Development Manager. In the current incarnation of her career Jennifer is the Senior Producer of Art and Development, for ILM’s Global Studios.
In addition to her management role, Jennifer is also the key Moderator for Lucasfilm’s Speaker Series, and has been responsible for interviewing such talents as Paul Thomas Anderson, Dee Rees, Alfonso Cuarón, Martin Scorsese and George Clooney.
In her life before ILM, Jennifer was an Honors Graduate and Regent Scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara where she received her B.F.A. from the school’s Conservatory Acting Program. She spent many of her post school years traveling around the country in search of acting roles in cities such as Seattle and New York before settling down in the Bay Area.


Kei Ishikawa
Film Director | Japan

Born in 1977, from Aichi Prefecture. He studied directing at the Polish National Film Academy. Released in 2017, "Gukoroku" was selected for the Orizzonti Competition at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, as well as winning the Kaneto Shindo Silver Award, the Yokohama Film Festival, and the New Director Award at the Japanese Film Professional Awards. In the music youth drama "Honeybee and Far Thunder" (19), which is a live-action film adaptation of Riku Onda's best-selling masterpiece, he won the Mainichi Film Concours Japan Film Grand Prize and the Japan Academy Award for Best Film. In 2021, Ken Ryu's sci-fi movie "Arc " was released, and in the fall of this year, the new work "A Man" will be released. Ant it is selected Orizzonti Competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival.