Professional Speaker Series 2 – Yosuke Hosoi, Movie Director

Award-winning director, Yosuke Hosoi, talks about how his film “Man of the House” reached the Cannes Film Festival and his personal experience at the festival. He will cover the production process from fundraising, script writing, production, post production to film festivals submissions. “Man of the House” will be screened along with his previous film “Club Fizz.” There will be a Q&A sessions followed by a networking event.

Overview of the lecture

Script Writing

“Keep your story personal.”

*My childhood memory with my grandmother

*The story of my American friend’s family who was affected by Tsunami in Japan

Fundraising

* Individual pitch

* Cloud Funding

* Parties

Production & Post Production

*Choice of the camera

*３Bs (Baby, Beauty, Beast)

*Cutting 20 to 10 minutes

Film festivals Submissions

*Submitting to Cannes Film Festival

*Other festivals ( 3/4 of submission rules, Early bird, Premier status)

*Premier at Queens World Film Festival, Asian American International Film Festival, Aoyama Filmate, Japan.

*Online application submission services (Withoutabox, Short Film Depot)

Experience at Cannes Film Festival

*Meeting with film festival programers

*Meeting with producers

*Meeting with established directors

*Thoughts about the Japanese film industry