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| Global Cinema Sub-Committee Co-Chair Victoria Hochberg, Professor Akira Mizuta Lippit and Global Cinema Sub-Committee Co-Chair Chuck Workman. - photo by Sarah Golonka. - Click images for larger view. |
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| Images from Nobody Knows. click image for larger view and more info on this film. |
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The Special Projects Committee screened Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Nobody Knows (Dare Mo Shiranai) as the third installment of its Global Cinema Series on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 in DGA Theatre 2 in Los Angeles..
Based on the true story of four children left to survive secretly on their own in a small Tokyo apartment when their mother abandons them, Nobody Knows was shot in improvisational, documentary style, chronologically over a year, with non-professional actors who grew up before the camera as their characters do. The film was nominated for the Palme D'Or, at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
After the screening, Global Cinema Sub-Committee Co-Chair Victoria Hochberg was joined by Akira Mizuta Lippit, Professor of Critical Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California, to discuss the filmmaker and provide a cultural context for the film's reception in its native Japan..
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