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Tokyo Film Festival Launches Women’s Empowerment Section
The Tokyo International Film Festival is furthering its DEI quest with the launch of a Women's Empowerment section.
Film festivals in Asia have been slower than their North American and European counterparts to bake diversity, equality and inclusion principles into their structures and selections. Andrijana Cvetkovikj, the first Macedonian ambassador to Japan and former jury member of Amazon Prime Video Take One Award at the 34th TIFF in 2021, will serve as the Women’s Empowerment senior programmer. With the release of his masterpiece ‘A Girl Named Ann,’ which marks a significant milestone in his career, we have curated this feature not only to celebrate his accomplishments to date, but also to help pave the way for his well-deserved recognition abroad,” said Tokyo IFF programmer Ichiyama Shozo.
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