Mr. Mark Schilling – Member of jury Board For Feature Length Films
American journalist, author, film critic, and screenwriter consultant – member
Mark Schilling has been reviewing Japanese films for “The Japan Times” since 1989 and reporting on the Japanese film industry since 1990, presently for Variety.
Since 2000 Schilling has also been a program advisor for the Udine Far East Film Festival, curating retrospectives on Nikkatsu Action films (2005), the Shintoho studio (2010) and Japanese SF/fantasy films (2016). Book publications include “The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture” (1997), “The Yakuza Movie Book – A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films” (2003), “No Borders, No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema” (2007) and “Art, Cult and Commerce: Japanese Cinema Since 2000.” He also wrote the original story for and produced “Convenience Story,” a film directed by Miki Satoshi that opened in Japan in August, 2022.