With the support of filmmakers and film fans from around the world, the Green Carpet Club (GCC) promotes green activities that will help preserve the natural environment of the Earth and maintain a sustainable society. The Green Carpet Club makes the upmost effort to ensure a healthy environment for the next generation.
(1) Organize the festival by considering our society and the earth.
(2) Through the power of films, raise awareness of the impor tance of protecting our environment and preserving natural resources for the next generation.
(3) Provide filmmakers and film fans with a deeper under s tanding of our environment, and expand this network of people who love films from around the world.
[The“ Green Carpet” welcome]
A Green Carpet will be rolled out at the opening of festival on Roppongi Hills as a symbol of ecology. The carpet was made in cooperation with Coca-Cola (Japan) Company Limited and TEIJIN LIMITED from recycled plastic bottles to reduce the burden on the environment.
[Donations]
GCC will do the internet charity auction with the support of Rakuten Auction, Inc., and contribute the proceeds to Cinema Yell Tohoku to support their screening activities in the areas of Tohoku that were devastated by the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. This will be in addition to the Green Tokyo Fundraising Campaign and Kinoshita Forest.
From Overseas*Alphabetical Order
Caroline Champetier
Director of Photography
The 22nd TIFF International Competition Jury
Tom Yoda's idea about green energy is a great idea for cinema industries.
Hee Moon Cho
Chairman, KOFIC
Lionel Chouchan
President, Le Public Système Cinéma
The Opening Ceremony was a well-organized event. I wish I had come up with the Green Carpet idea for my first film festival in Brazil!
Jacques Cluzaud
Director
The 22nd TIFF Opening Film "Oceans"
"Océans" a fait ses premiers pas sur le Green Carpet du Festival International de Tokyo, bien avant que les spectateurs-citoyens du monde ne découvrent un Océan fragile et merveilleux, menacé mais vivant. Notre Océan, notre Vie.
Pete Doctor
Director
The 22nd TIFF Closing Film "UP"
I'm honored that 'UP' was selected to close TIFF and be associated with the Green Carpet Club- a great way to give back to the planet!
Kim Dong Ho
Festival Director, Pusan International Film Festival
The theme of ecology and the Green Carpet are innovative ideas.
Benoit Ginisty
Interim Director General, International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF)
The decision to use the Green Carpet was extremely innovative. As a global citizen, I believe ecology is a very important issue and I wholeheartedly give the green light to TIFF's ambitions.
Sang Jun Han
Festival Director, PiFan
Green Carpet Club is a fantastic initiative from TIFF that I truly support. Keep up the good work.
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Director
The 22nd TIFF President of the International Competition Jury
I think that the Green Carpet has message of the commitment towards the consciousness of our responsibility for working to make a more ecological and clean world. I think that it's a good idea or a good intention for the film festival to send this idea to hundreds and thousands of people. I consider this as a valuable effort to keep going for the consciousness of the new generation to work for clean environment.
Yoo Ji Tae
Actor / Director
The 22nd TIFF International Competition Jury
Green Carpet became a catalyst and an opportunity to break the stereotype and I thought that the environment and the color green fitted very well.
Abdulhamid Juma
Chairman, Dubai International Film Festival
Everybody nowadays just talks about going Green. TIFF has actually done somethings about it and transformed talk 2 action!
Peter Lam
Chairman, Media Asia Group
TIFF using green carpet is an excellent innovative idea.
Reuben Lim
Lane Street Pictures
Producer of The 21st TIFF Competion "half Life"
I'm definitely a supporter of that cause and I think it's another thing that distinguishes TIFF as a leading world class film festival. I'm proud to have been there at the first year of the green carpet and look forward to many more years of collaboration with your festival.
Fernando Meirelles
Director
The 21st TIFF Special Screenings "BLINDNESS"
"Blindness" is a carbon-free film and we planted 7,000 trees. I think it's very important for the film industry to contribute to the preservation of the global environment.
Jerome Paillard
Executive Director, Cannes Marche
Congratulations! Tom Yoda's initiative focuses the attention of the film community on environmental issues, a topic that we, at the Marché du Film, are proud to share with TIFF.
Jacques Perrin
Director / Actor
The 22nd TIFF Opening Film "Oceans"
le cinéma a la faculté de pouvoir trouver son inspiration dans les thèmes qui préoccupent les citoyens de la plan?te. L'écologie, la protection de la biodiversité sont des sujets majeurs. Le Green Carpet renouvelle tous les ans son attachement à cette cause universelle.
Beki Probst
Director of European Film Market, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
The Green Carpet is a very innovative idea. TIFF has grown to become a great film festival for both Japan and the world.
Jerzy Skolimowski
Director
The 22nd TIFF International Competition Jury
TIFF is a Champion of Ecology.
Sophokles Tasioulis
Producer
The 21st TIFF natural TIFF supported by TOYOTA "Earth"
"Cinema is magic and gets to people hearts like nothing else. We can move people, we can engage people and we can make them dream.
The Green Carpet Club is a wonderful platform for all these good causes and it is very important that such a prestigious festival like Tokyo is behind it. "
Jeremy Thomas
Producer, Recorded Picture Company Limited
Green is a beautiful color and a great symbol.
Chalida Uabumrungjit
Project Director, Thai Film Foundation
Jon Voight
Actor
President of Jury of the 21st TIFF
"The idea of the Green Carpet is very innovative -
They are using the festival in a very nice way, promoting ecology, and I was happy to be a part of that."
Wilfred Wong
Chairman, The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society
TIFF continues to grow in scale and dignity. Taking environmental protection as the main theme is an excellent idea.
John Woo
Director
The 21st TIFF Opening Film "REDCLIFF Part I"
I'll encourage the organizers of all the other film festivals in the world to turn their ordinary red carpet to green.
From Japan*Alphabetical Order
Anne
Actress
the 22nd・23rd TIFF Green Ambassador
I would like to reach more people with the TIFF's Green initiatives for the global environmental issues as Green Ambassador. I wish the festival would become a fruitful platform where participants think about the ecology while enjoying many films.
Tetsuya Bessho
Actor / President of Short Shorts Film Festival
The 21st・22nd TIFF TOYOTA Earth Grand Prix Jury
The power of the Film Festival to express the potential of films can transform? environmental issues from political and social topics into matters closely connected to our own lives.
Mieko Harada
Actress
The 22nd TIFF International Competition Jury
Yoshino Kimura
Actress
The 22nd・23rd TIFF Festival Ambassador
I am very honored to be the festival Ambassador this year again. As a performer, audience member, and movie lover, I take pleasure to be of any assistance to TIFF and Green Carpet Club as festival Ambassador.
Masahiko Makino
Director
The 21st TIFF Special Screenings "Penguins in the Sky-Asahiyama Zoo"
The spirit of TIFF should be shared with everyone. You should continue using the Green Carpet.
Masamichi Matsumoto
Director, Cinematheque
The 22nd TIFF International Competition Jury
Keiko Matsuzaka
Actress
The 21st TIFF Japanese Eyes "Osaka Hamlet"
It's very significant that this is the first film festival in the world to try using the Green Carpet.
Micro
Director
The 21st TIFF Cinema Vibration "ROUTE134STORY Feathers of a Chamomile"
The Green Carpet reminds us all to be on the alert about the things around us.
Kaori Momoi
Actress
To gaze at the lovely green carpet and think about the meaning of "green" together with film-lovers worldwide. Wonderful, isn't it!
Kikunosuke Onoe
Actor
The 21st TIFF Japanese Eyes "THE CODE"
TIFF is an excellent festival because it contemplates our environment through culture, namely films and art.
Shinichi Takemura
Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design
In the 20th century, we began recording our activities through moving pictures, which opened a new window of self-awareness, including the realization of our immaturity. At the same time, we have become the "eyes" of self-awareness for this extraordinary planet called "Earth." An outward gaze eventually turns inward. Film begins the new century as a medium that enables us to discover new things about the Earth and ourselves.
