Break The Scene: Japan
Japan is a country where the culture of street dance is really strong. In last 10 years, Japanese dancers are always at the top level of many competitions around the world such as RedBull BC ONE, FreeStyle Session and BBIC. This 16 minutes documentary, goes deep inside the hiphop dancing culture, that is surrounding Tokyo.
Interview with Director Sylysak Taido
Congratulations! Why did you make your film?
Break The Scene: Japan (BTSJ), represents all the memories I've built during my travels in Japan. I want to show through BTSJ, what's the vibe for the dancers in Japan.
Imagine I’m a member of the audience. Why should I watch this film?
You love Japanese culture, Japan’s night life and dancing? Break The Scene Japan makes you dive deeply into the dancing culture around Tokyo.
How do personal and universal themes work in your film?
I'm always looking for some new dance, looking and getting interested of many kind of dancers. Here in Break The Scene, I am showing multiples type of dancers. Competitive dancer, underground dancers, High level dancers, or student dancers. I am showing how their philosophy of dancing work.
How have the script and film evolved over the course of their development?
Break The Scene Japan is narrated to be intensive minutes after minutes of the documentary. We are going deeper and deeper while the minutes goes. From the Underground to the spotlight dancing stuff.
What type of feedback have you received so far?
This 16 minutes format, is not complete yet. Break the Scene Japan (16 minutes format) is a general view of what's happening there, we are introducing quickly what's dancing there through how they respect their OG, how they train to be champion, how Jams looks like there or how Japan want to shine through their battle...
This is not a documentary talking about Japan's dancing heritage, it is more about a nowadays point of view. And this is something that's really miss in this documentary, the Japan's dancing history.
Has the feedback surprised or challenged your point of view?
Honestly, I am already preparing a more longer format with more details and more people on it, but this 16 minutes format works really well, because the intensity is always there. The rhythm, and the story telling can be understand by everybody.
Through many years, I've been editing through my dancer vision to tell stories with dancers. Today we need to tell stories to everybody, to tell how dancing is working through simple words.
What are you looking to achieve by having your film more visible on www.wearemovingstories.com?
I want people to get interested into my concept Called: Break The Scene. I want people to spread this vision of dancing which is an immersive one.
Who do you need to come on board (producers, sales agents, buyers, distributors, film festival directors, journalists) to amplify this film’s message?
Distributors, buyers, producers, film festivals, journalists... Everybody is welcome to spread the message.
What type of impact and/or reception would you like this film to have?
Break The Scene Japan, is a self produced documentary, for the next ones, I'd like to have a more consequent budget to make a more qualitative movie.
What’s a key question that will help spark a debate or begin a conversation about this film?
Why is dance so popular in Japan?
What other projects are the key creatives developing or working on now?
I am working right now for a biggest format for Break The Scene Japan, a 58 Minutes format. But I need to go back in Japan before to capture some more images.
Also I have a fiction dancing short movie, that I'm preparing in Iceland.
And Finally, I'm preparing the next Break The Scene movie which will be set in different countries (South Korea, Portugal...).
Interview: July 2022
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Break The Scene: Japan
Length:
15:56
Writer/Director/Producer
Sylysak TAIDO, known as SakFilms, is a self-produced French Director. He produces lots of dance content, and is specialising with dance documentaries. He's traveling the world with a camera ready to capture every type of dance.
Film cast:
B-Boy Thienggy (interviewee), B-Boy Eighteen (interviewee), B-Girl Ami (interviewee), Funky Yui(interviewee), Takara (interviewee), B-Boy Katsu (interviewee)
Looking for:
buyers, distributors, journalists, producers
Instagram:
Hashtags used:
#Dance #SakFilms #NewDanceTv #HipHop #Locking #Breaking #Japan #Tokyo
More info:
https://sakufilms.wordpress.com
Where Can I Watch it?
It will be released on a French Streaming Platform called : Riding Zone TV