2011 Asian Network of Documentary (AND) Fund
LIST 311Category | Busan Bank Fund |
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Project | 311 |
Director | MORI Tatsuya |
Country | Japan |
Director's Profile | Mori Tatsuya was born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1956. As a student at Rikkyo University, he joined the movie club Rikkyo SPP and collaborated, as an actor, with now-renowned filmmakers such as Kurosawa Kiyoshi. After a short acting career, he joined a TV production company in 1989 and made more than 40 TV programs. In 1996 he went freelance when his project about the Aum Shinrikyo cult was cancelled ? the film was subsequently absorbed into the theatrical documentary film [A] (1998). In 2001, the sequel [A2] won Special Prize and Citizens Prize in competition at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. He is a prolific writer with more than 20 books published, about media, war, the death penalty, and non-fiction reportages about forgotten historical incidents in post-war Japan. |