Part of Japan Now North

Discussing Documentary Making: student workshop with Jasper Sharp, Megumi Sasaki and Kyoko Miyake

Showroom Cinema
Tuesday 27th February, 1.30pm – 3pm.

As part of the events of Japan Now North, University of Sheffield students will have the opportunity to attend a documentary roundtable with two of the leading Japanese female documentary makers working today, Kyoko Miyake and Megumi Sasaki. They will be joined by Jasper Sharp one of the leading critics and writers on Japanese cinema and documentary maker. His debut film, the award-winning The Creeping Garden explores extraordinary worlds of plasmodial slime mould.

Japan Now North

Japan Now North is a week of activities celebrating art, culture, literature and film in Sheffield, home of one of Europe’s leading academic centres for research and teaching on Japan. Events take place across the city, including talks with renowned filmmaker and photographer Mika Ninagawa, writer Tomoyuki Hoshino and an exhibition and workshop with Japan-based photographer and visual artist Suzanne Mooney. We will also welcome documentary filmmakers Megumi Sasaki and the Peabody award-winning Kyoko Miyake, and host the UK premiere of Sasaki’s documentary A Whale of a Tale.

Programmed by University of Sheffield in partnership with the Japan Foundation and Modern Culture.
Sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Post Graduate Forum.
Supported by University of Sheffield, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the Japan Society