#ISUPPORTBIFF_KUROSAWA Kiyoshi 구로사와 기요시
I’m a Japanese director Kurosawa Kiyoshi.
I’ve been in Busan for several times to attend at the Busan IFF.
First of all, as for the freedom of expression, it is common sense to protect if it is not an abuse of human rights.
I think these are the good or bad those are beyond controversy. Only, filmmakers may expect to get audiences responded positively, or filmmakers need to be positively respectful of the production company which invested the production of this film, ect..
These reasons make a filmmaker to get a pressure.
Especially, the film cost a lot of money, somehow filmmakers need to have limited control of making their films because it is commercialism.
In the commercial point of view for film making, self-restraint and limitation are necessarily accepted
But among those limitations, the film festival is the place for finding and evaluates the way of something we should not bury, express single freedom and the natural parts of the filmmakers.
Therefore, the film festival should be respected for the freedom of expression, and the place where receive credit for filmmakers’ freedom from their own films.
If the films festival was disappeared in the world, only commercial films would be available or the films would not be in the world. The world of film, film industry would be changed. This is the reason why I think the film festival is the most important position in the modern film industry.
Especially, all filmmakers in the world always expect the Busan IFF which runs in every year. Also, they expect and desire that their films will be selected and screened in Busan when they direct their films. I’m also one of them. Therefore, I can say Busan IFF is from all over the world.
All films can be announced through BIFF. BIFF is one of the largest film festivals in the world and the largest film festival and the most powerful film festival in Asia. I deeply appreciate to BIFF staffs who have developed the festival into the place where all films can be shown freely. We will never forget that and we should protect continually a freedom more and more. It relates with the all films in the world, so please protect and keep the film festival. Cheer up.
