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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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Chief Curator, National Film Center, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Born in 1956 in Aichi, Japan, Hisashi Okajima became a curatorial staff member of the National Film Center (NFC), film division of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo in 1979, and has been Chief Curator/Head of the NFC since 2005.
His career as a film critic started in 1979, and throughout the 1980s his articles on film constantly appeared in various journals including Kinema Jumpo, Image Forum and BT. He has widely published not only on Japanese cinema and international cinema, but also on film archives and film archive movements.
He participates in the various activities of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and serves as a member of the Executive Committee (2003, three terms) and as the vicepresident (2004). He is also a member of the board of directors of the Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences (2000, 2006, 2008) and is presently an advisory committee member of film archives in Fukuoka and Hiroshima, of Tokyo Filmex, and of the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute.
In addition to his writing and academic activities on film, in the late 1980s, he started to give quite a few number of lectures at universities in Tokyo such as Kyoritsu Women's University, University of Tokyo, Waseda University, Rikkyo University, Ritsumeikan University and Nihon University, and attended at lecture events as panelist/speaker held not only in Tokyo but also in cities such as Beijing, Cartagena, Fukuoka, Hong Kong, Inuyama, Kanazawa, Kyoto, Los Angeles, Ljubljana, Sapporo, Sendai, Seoul, Stockholm, and Yamagata on film history and film archiving.
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