Jasper Sharp Email and Phone Number

I am a writer and film curator based in the UK and a disc producer for Arrow Films. I was the co-editor of the website Midnight Eye, the premier resource on Japanese cinema in the English language, which I co-founded with Tom Mes in 2001. From 2010-14, I was the director and head programmer of Zipangu Fest, the premiere festival in the UK showcasing independent Japanese films, and between 2009-12, the co-director and co-programmer (with Chris Magee) of the Shinsedai New Generation Japanese Film Festival in Toronto. Between 2014 and 2016 I was currently the Programme Director and Artistic Consultant for the Asia House Film Festival in London.I've travelled and worked extensively overseas, and am a regular visitor to Japan, having lived in Tokyo between 2001 and 2005, where I worked with Tom on The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film.I've authored several book publications on Japanese cinema, and contributed articles and chapters to a number of anthologies and magazines. I've also contributed liner notes, commentaries and video interviews to numerous DVD releases.As well as lecturing on cinema, curating the Japanese section of London’s Raindance Film Festival (between 2005-10) and working as an advisor for the Japan Foundation UK’s annual touring season, I've curated a number of high profile seasons and retrospectives across the world.As a filmmaker I co-directed The Creeping Garden (2014), with Tim Grabham, a documentary about plasmodial slime moulds, as well as authoring the tie-in book, published by Alchimia in 2016.As a disc producer for Arrow, my works have included the Battle Royale UHD box set, The Daimajin Trilogy, Yasuzo Masumura's Blind Beast, Giants and Toys and Irezumi, and boxset collections of the films of R.W. Fassbinder.