At the movies: Nishikawa judges short films at the Hong Kong International Film Festival
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis in 2010. Nishikawa was invited to join the jury for the short film competition in early March. The festival took place both online and in person this year from April 1 through 12. For the short film competition, three jury members — Nishikawa, film director and programmer Maike Mia Höhne and cinematographer Ming-Kai Leung — watched 19 nominees, all under 20 minutes. They then discussed the entries one by one over Zoom. “Each of us shared what elements we thought were compelling and remarkable with the others,” Nishikawa said. “The whole process was...
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