Closing : 31 Oct 2009
Festival: 21 Nov onwards 2009 - they use several venues over a couple of weeks.

Taking their lead from the Croatian Minute Movie Festival this Japanese group has been running a festival for many years. Its broad objective is to honour the spirit of Hokusai, the painter, who is associated with the town of Obuse. The top prize is 100,000 yen (around £414), second prize and audience prize get 10,000 yen (£41). No entry fee. Maximum and minimum length is 60 seconds. Film submissions must be in either VHS or DV format (NTSC only) ... and they want two copies.

Contact:
Yuichiro HANAI, Sixty Second Cinema Competition,
Northern Shinano Obuse Film Festival Secretariat,
30-26 Nakamatsu,
Obuse-machi,
Kamitakai-gun,
Nagano-ken 381-0209

email: hokusai@obuse60.com
Click the button for the English section on : www.obuse60.com

Note - there is an online registration form which is straightforward - or you can download a pdf of it. You may have to download the Japanese character set from Adobe - even though there are no Japanese characters in it (!). Your Adobe Acrobat Reader should automatically prompt you to do so.