Tokyo Jury President Rolf de Heer on FIAPF’s New A-List: ‘It Matters a Great Deal to Some People, and Not at All to Others’ — SkimNews
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- FIAPF made A-list status official and named 17 festivals, including Tokyo, for the new designation.
- Rolf de Heer, the Australian filmmaker who directed “Bad Boy Bubby” and “Ten Canoes,” leads Tokyo’s competition jury.
- Tokyo is unlikely to change much as a result of gaining official A-list status, according to de Heer.
- Rolf de Heer said A-list status matters “a great deal to some people, and not at all to others.”
- Rolf de Heer was asked about the new designation during the festival’s 39th edition.
Why it matters: FIAPF’s official A-list gives Tokyo and 16 other festivals a formal designation, but competition-jury president Rolf de Heer says it is unlikely to change much about the event. His observation that the label matters greatly to some people but not at all to others makes its immediate significance reputational, with no specific programming or operational change stated.
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