WARNING: I just received an unsolicited email from Japan International Film Festival from Chiasa Sakurai who claims to be the Festival Coordinator for Japan IFF. I tried to look up the people involved with the festival(s discussed below) and they don't seem to have any online presence. I then decided to look up the Registrant Organization for the japanfilmfest domain and found that the site was registered to: Pegah Tarkhooni. Curiously enough Pegah Tarkhooni is also the CEO and Registrant Organization for the Munich New Wave Short Film Festival website as well as the Venice FullShot Film Festival (Full Shot cinemag) website. Curious.. I thought. I actually regretfully paid for a submission of my film to the Munich New Wave Short Film Festival thinking the event was online due to the pandemic but realize now it is a way for Pegah Tarkhooni or anyone else involved to have multiple festivals at once and get quite a lot of revenue from artists submitting to seemingly different festivals in different parts of the world (Tokyo, Munich, Venice and how many more?!) that were actually all created by the same person. So nice of them to invite me to submit my film (a $60 fee for an online event!) to the Japan International Film Festival, no? I wrote to FilmFreeway and requested that they look into both Pegah Tarkhooni and the very suspicious film festivals that are disguising themselves as support and community for creatives but were really just created to empty the wallets of hard working artists. Reprehensible. Pegah Tarkhooni care to comment? I would be happy to get a clear explanation and change my review...Contact the festivals you are interested in directly. I will update my review if I ever hear back from the 'people' associated with the 'festivals' or from FilmFreeway with their action plan.
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