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This funny promotional short, 'Find Your Gift', is realized by Kosai Sekine for the Nec Theatre website. Ideated by creative director Yuya Hurukawa and copywriter Takuma Takasaki.Kosai Sekine majored in philosophy at Tokyo's Sophia University, but his interest in film brought him abroad to the United States, to learn the basics of photography and film production.He graduated from Sophia in 2000 and in that same year entered the commercial production company SPOON Ltd. After working as production manager, he signed with HAT Co., Ltd. in 2002 with the aim of becoming a director.In 2005 his script won the competition for the short-film showcase presented by JAC held at the Asia-Pacific Advertising Festival and was selected as the Japanese representative director. Though it was his first direction, the short 'Right Place' was highly praised throughout the world, winning him with 'Best Foreign Film Award' at the New York City Short Film Festival, as well as 'Diesel Film of the Festival Award' at the Raindance Film Festival.'Right Place' also appeared at festivals such as ResFest and onedotzero, etc. Shots selected him as a member of "Shots New Directors", an honorable title dedicated to the world's best newcomer directors.Kosai, having been invited to do the opening film for the Raindance Film Festival, directed 'Daughter' with the sponsorship of Diesel. He was awarded in 3 categories, including the Special Jury Award 2006 (Grand-Prix), at Young Directors Award 2006 in Cannes International Advertising Festival presented by SHOTS and CFP-E, an unprecedented number of awards to be achieved in the same year in the history of the festival.He has directed various commercials for clients including National/Panasonic, Lifecard, etc., and is currently broadening his director's activities globally.

Channel: Entertainment Uploaded: November 20, 2007 at 2:58 pm Author: sodamnyeah

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