The "4K / VR Tokushima Film Festival" was launched in Kamiyama -cho, Nishi -gun, Tokushima Prefecture, and started as a "4K Forum" in 2013, and in 2015, the "4K Film Festival" with a movie screening.Since then, VR works have been evolved and developed as a film festival specializing in Japan's first 4K and VR video since 2018.
Kamiyama -cho, the stage of the film festival, is located in the central part of Tokushima Prefecture, and is about 4,500 people, about 40 minutes by car from Tokushima city.In the mountainous area of the Ayuku River basin, which is a tributary of the Yoshino River, the mountains and valleys are very beautiful.However, why was there a film festival that features video works shot with cutting -edge technology in such depopulated areas in the mountains?
In Kamiyama -cho, optical fibers were laid in all houses in Shikoku in 2004 to resolve information disparations with urban areas.The cable TV's household penetration rate was the number one nationwide for the ninth consecutive year in a survey until March last year.Against this background, IT -based venture companies that have found a harmony between work and life have begun to open a satellite office in this area where comfortable broadband environments and rich natural environments coexist.
As a member of the Tokushima 4K Forum Executive Committee, Platform Co., Ltd., which operates a film festival, has a headquarters in Tokyo, and is a company that develops and consults business systems related to video content such as TV programs and commercials.In 2013, the group company, Enogawa, opened an Engawa office in 2013, which renovated a 90 -year -old old private house in Kamiyama.
In addition, in 1999, the certified non -profit organization Green Valley has been postponed by the international exchange program that invites artists from overseas to Kamiyama every year to support the work.Conduct).We have launched various regional revitalization projects, including the founding of the co -working space "KVSOC Kamiyama Valley Saterite Office Complex".In response to such movements, creators began to emigrate from outside the prefecture.Given these circumstances, Kamiyama has now become a symbol of regional revitalization, and has the background of the establishment of the 4K VR Tokushima Film Festival.