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Ami (Minase Yashiro) is one girl you don’t want to bully with in Noboru Iguchi’s Machine Girl. Media Blasters will be releasing this film via DVD on June 3. For those around the Austin area, Fantastic Fest (www.fantasticfest.com) will be holding a special theatrical screening of it on June 2 (more info).

Of special note with this filim is Yoshihiro Nishimura who does molding/special effects. He also worked on Meatball Machine, Death Note: The Last Name, Strange Circus and Exte: Hair Extensions. Their directing debut comes out this year with Tokyo Gore Police (view trailer), which by the tile along sounds like a lot of damn fun!

Machine Girl also features the work of action director Masaki Suzumura (Death Trance).

Related Coverage:
::: AFFF 2008: THE MACHINE GIRL Review (Ardvark @ Twitch)

Japanese Cinema:
::: Jason Gray
::: Mark Schilling’s Tokyo Ramen
::: Midnight Eye
::: Outcast Cinema
::: Ryuganji
::: Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow

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In great news that may or may not have hit your radar, Matthew Kiernan is the Sponsorship Coordinator for Fantastic Fest (www.fantasticfest.com). What a great and welcome addition this is!

::: It’s Official…
Matthew’s post on Headquarters 10 announcing this

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Next month I head out to the Berlin International Film Festival/European Film Market with others from Fantastic Fest to get started scouting for Fantastic Fest 2008. Fantastic Fest in 2007 had nearly someone at every major film fest and genre fest around the world, which was nonetheless one hell of an amazing feet. For 2008 I think it’s safe to say we will be casting an even larger net to scour the world and find great new films to show.

For those at the past Fantastic Fest be sure and get out and support and spread the word that The Orphanage which is currently playing at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. I’ve already made one trip to see it there, which was an absolute blast and one of the few films I’ve ever attended where a female got so scared in a place in the film she literally screamed bloody murder. I’m surprised her hysterical scream didn’t break every glass in the theater.

Fantastic Fest in the Blogosphere:
::: 2008 rolls in not with a bang, but with a whimper (Nothing Clears the Mind)
* Lots of Fantastic Fest titles in their 2008 best of!

::: MAJOR UPDATE. BE PREPARED. (Shiny Kid)
* For those wondering what the Fantastic Fester “The Girl with Gold Shoes” has been up to.

ps - If your on Facebook you can find some Fantastic Fest coolness going down there - just lurk around.

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