The Tokyo International FIlm Festival will unveil a new award for its Competition section, the WOWOW Viewer’s Choice Award.
Pay TV broadcaster WOWOW will be a presenting sponsor of an award for the first time at TIFF.
The cash prize will be worth $10,000.
Six viewers of WOWOW’s channels will be chosen to serve on the selection committee.
On November 22, WOWOW will plan a special broadcast and live events tied to TIFF.
TIFF runs Oct 23-31.
This year’s festival will screen 70 films from 32 countries.
The Danish filmmaker had to drop out for “family reasons”.
A Tunisian teenager encounters violent extremism in this drama based on the 2015 killing of Mabrouk Soltani
Participants come Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Peru and Saint Lucia.
Screen profiles the Piazza Grande and International Competition titles selected for Locarno’s 75th edition, which runs August 3-13.
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