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Spanish short film wins Youtube’s Your Film Festival 2012
The short “The Guilt” by young Spanish director David Victori was the big winner of the 2012 Your Film Festival. The competition presented by Youtube and Emirates Airlines invites young filmmakers to send short films to compete for a prize of $500,000 to produce a feature film with the company of Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) and Michael Fassbender (Magneto in X-Men: First Class ).
The contest received more than 15,000 applications from which the top 50 were chosen by Scott Free Productions for the YouTube community to vote for the top 10. The 10 finalists were exhibited in Venice, and an expert jury chose the winner, this year the award went to the 10-minute short film by young catalan director David Victori.
The Guilt (subtitled in English)
Halloween 2011 in Jumanji 55 in Roppongi, Tokyo
In spite of all the international and local bad news ranging from revolutions, occupy wall street and radiation spots in the city, people in Tokyo did not refrain themselves to celebrate a long Halloween weekend from Thursday 28th to Monday the 31st.
This time the location was Jumanji55 a club venue located in the heart of Roppongi. The name resembling the famous 80′s jungle story taken to the big screen starring Robin Williams. Jumanji the movie is based on the story by the same name written by Chris Van Alburg which narrates the adventures 2 kids who go through after playing with a mysterious game board that transports them to a magical jungle. Jumanji55 named after this story resembles the same jungle atmosphere with dinosaurs, snakes and wild nature ,added to this the distinctive life size statue of the alien man eater Predator at the entrance of the club, which has become the club’s trademark.
From its inauguration Jumanji55 has been one of the most successful venues in Roppongi hosting international DJs and cover magazine super models visiting Japan. The club since then has been recognized for being the foreign fashion model hangout and one of the best nampa pick up places of beautiful Japanese girls.
This Halloween Jumanji55 celebrated Halloween with its unique style that started with a red carpet entrance decorated with a real size coffin for guests to get in and experience the sinister and deadly side of Halloween.
Here is the short music video Tokyography shot for the venue’s Halloween event.
