Market Development & Human Resource Development

Project Overview

The ACA Cinema Project is an initiative to screen Japanese films in countries with a highly developed cinema culture in North America. By providing human resource exchanges such as organizing international and diverse workshops, etc., the project creates and promotes opportunities for new creative activities as well as increasing film talent and improving the appeal and diversity of Japanese films.

Project Content

■Japanese Film Series at Japan Society
The Japanese Film Series at Japan Society will be showing current and classic Japanese films　including some New York premieres. The series aim to create opportunities to view Japanese films from new perspectives and broaden the range of audiences in New York. Simultaneously, symposiums with related themes will be held, creating opportunities for filmmakers from each country to mingle, and encouraging more Japanese film studies in the United States.

■Theatrical Screenings in New York
Japanese films will be shown to the public in New York’s art-house theaters to motivate and boost the overseas development of Japanese films.

■Script Development Workshop
A short-term script development workshop will be held in New York, targeting young Japanese filmmakers and visual creators in a hybrid format in order to include both online and face-to-face participants. The workshop aims to educate and support the activities of ambitious Japanese filmmakers who’d like to build their career overseas.

■Screenings in Los Angeles for the Film Industry
In Los Angeles, we will hold Japanese film screenings for people in the film industry, mainly the press, to improve recognition, gain interest in Japanese films, and provide many future viewing opportunities.

The purpose is to promote the international development of Japan’s contents industry and facilitate the promotion of the content industry in Asia as a whole through the operation of international conferences (see below) and other events aimed at promoting content from Asian countries and regions, further expanding Japan’s content industry.

13th Trilateral Cultural Content Industry Forum
The purpose of this international conference is to continuously exchange information on content industry policies and trends in Japan, China, and Korea, as well as create business opportunities among the industries of these three countries.
Participants: governments, government agencies, academic institutions and industry stakeholders from the three countries.

Asia Content Business Summit （ACBS）
The summit aims to bring together public and private sectors in Asia’s content industry to discuss international issues such as the promotion of content distribution in the Asian market, anti-piracy, human resource exchange, and international co-production projects. The summit also aims to encourage international collaboration.
Member countries/regions: Japan, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.