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Post-mortem tribute and creation of Jury and Marc Haaz Prize at the 28th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas (February 1 – 8, 2022 )

November 1, 2021
Panos Kotzathanasis
Martine and Jean-Marc Thérouanne, director and general delegate, surrounded by the team of the International Festival of Asian Cinemas in Vesoul during the GA on October 28, 2021 - the masks were removed during the photo (Photo Credit Jean-Francois Maillot)

The General Assembly of the was held at the Maison du FICA, 1, rue Paul Petitclerc in Vesoul, October 28, 2021 in the presence of Mr. Alexandre Garniron, Deputy Mayor of Vesoul in charge of culture and Mr. Gilles Lazar, President of the culture commission of the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

The 28th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas will take place from February 1 to 8, 2022

The festival is in mourning: Marc Haaz , its technical director, was killed in a plane crash on July 30, 2021, at the age of 33. He was one of the pillars of the festival. The whole team got together to divide up the multiple tasks which he always accomplished naturally, with a smile.

Marc Haaz was not only the technical director of FICA, he was also an actor, director, producer, distributor. He was destined for a brilliant career in the world of cinema. It was a solar being struck down, in full professional rise, by fate.

Tribute will be paid to him during the opening ceremony on February 1st 2022.

It was decided to create a Marc Haaz Jury, made up of young directors, awarding a Marc Haaz prize, to a young director.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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