Midnight Eye is a non-profit review website launched in 2001 by Tom Mes, Jasper Sharp, and Martin Mes. The website features reviews and analyses of Japanese films , as well as book reviews and interviews with filmmakers. In June 2015, it was announced that no further content would be added to the website.
11-585: Editor Tom Mes, alongside his brother, designer and programmer Martin Mes, and fellow editor Jasper Sharp, launched the website in spring 2001. Tom Mes conceived the idea for the website after watching a retrospective of then-recent Japanese films at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2000. In 2004, Tom Mes and Sharp published The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film , a book about Japanese cinema which includes over 100 reviews of Japanese films, and which features
22-454: A foreword by Hideo Nakata . Throughout its history, the website has published articles by numerous contributors, along with interviews with filmmakers such as Takashi Miike , Hayao Miyazaki , Satoshi Kon , and Yuki Tanada , among others. On 29 June 2015, Sharp and the Mes brothers announced that the website was retiring, and that no further content would be added to it. In their announcement, they wrote "The site will remain as and where it
33-405: A focus on presenting cutting edge media art and arthouse film, with most of the participants in the short film program identified as artists or experimental filmmakers. IFFR also hosts CineMart and BoostNL, for film producers to seek funding. As of 2024 , Vanja Kaludjercic is director of the festival. The IFFR logo is a stylized image of a tiger that is loosely based on Leo , the lion in
44-471: A promoter of alternative, innovative, and non-commercial films, with an emphasis on the Far East and developing countries. Around 1983, the festival founded CineMart to serve as a "regular film market", and later modified the business model to serve instead as a "co-production market", which helps a selected number of film producers connect with possible co-producers and funders for their film projects. After
55-554: Is a Dutch public broadcaster and part of the Dutch public broadcasting system . It was founded in 1926 as a liberal Protestant radio station. In the 1950s and 1960s, it gradually became social liberal rather than Protestant, and the original meaning of the acronym was eventually dropped. In 1967, VPRO was the first station in the Netherlands to show a nude woman, Phil Bloom , on national television, which caused scandal and controversy at
66-540: Is for the time being, but after fifteen years of creating the main source of info on Japanese cinema in the English language we are calling it a day." Midnight Eye has been referenced by such publications and companies as Bustle , the Criterion Collection , DVD Talk , Forbes , and Vice . Rotterdam Film Festival International Film Festival Rotterdam ( IFFR ) is an annual film festival held at
77-744: The MGM logo. The IFFR screens films at multiple locations, including the Pathé cinema at Schouwburgplein , De Doelen , Cinerama , WORM , Oude Luxor Theater, Rotterdamse Schouwburg , KINO, and LantarenVenster. The Tiger Award has had various sponsors over the years. In the years leading up to and including 2010 it was sponsored by the VPRO . In 2011 the award was presented by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and since 2012 by Hivos . The short films have their own competition at IFFR. What differentiates it from
88-961: The Tiger Competition for feature-length films is the fact that it's not just for young and upcoming talents; all filmmakers have a chance at winning. Since 2005, The Tiger Short Competition has had various sponsors over the years including Ammodo, an institution in the Netherlands that supports the development of arts, architecture and science. In 2023, 24 shorts competed for three equal Tiger Short Awards, each worth €5,000. [REDACTED] Germany [REDACTED] Ecuador [REDACTED] Russia [REDACTED] France [REDACTED] Canada [REDACTED] Italy Source: Source: VPRO The VPRO (stylized vpro ; originally an acronym for Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep , lit. ' Liberal Protestant Radio Broadcaster ' )
99-553: The London Institute of Contemporary Arts , became director of the festival. In 2004 Sandra den Hamer took over as director of the festival, and from 2007 to 2015 the director was Rutger Wolfson. Film producer Bero Beyer was the next director. In 2020, Vanja Kaludjercic was appointed as the new director. Since its foundation in 1972, it has maintained a focus on independent and experimental filmmaking by showcasing emerging talents and established auteurs. The festival also places
110-520: The end of January in various locations in Rotterdam , the Netherlands, focused on independent and experimental films. The inaugural festival took place in June 1972, led by founder Huub Bals . IFFR also hosts CineMart and BoostNL, for film producers to seek funding. The first festival, then called Film International, was organized in June 1972 under the leadership of Huub Bals . The festival profiled itself as
121-466: The festival founder's sudden death in 1988, a fund was initiated and named after him ( Hubert Bals Fund ), used for supporting filmmakers from developing countries. The non-competitive character of the festival changed in 1995, when the VPRO Tiger Awards were introduced—three yearly prizes for young filmmakers making their first or second film. In 1996 Simon Field, formerly cinema director at
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