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Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
''Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo'' is a 2009 documentary directed by American filmmaker Jessica Oreck. The documentary shows how insects are entwined with Japan from past to present. A Japanese narrator reads poetry, reads legends, and give information about the insects. The film has shots of insects interspersed with shots of daily life in Japan. It has to do with how the Japanese treat insects of all types. The film screened within the 2009 South by Southwest#SXSW Film Festival, South by Southwest Film Conference & Festival and the 2009 Maryland Film Festival. It was nominated for the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 25th Independent Spirit Awards. References External links

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Akito Y
Akito is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: Akito shinonome, solo di sal * (1930–2020), Japanese nuclear physicist * (born 1987), Japanese footballer * (born 1987), Japanese professional wrestler * (born 1988), Japanese footballer * (born 1988), Japanese Nordic combined skier * (born 1989), Japanese singer * (born 1992), Japanese footballer * (born 1993), Japanese singer Fictional characters: *Akito Tenkawa, main character of the anime series ''Martian Successor Nadesico'' *Akito Shinonome, a character in the video game Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage! *Akito Sohma, leader of the Sohma clan in the manga and anime Fruits Basket *Akito Hayama, main character in ''Kodomo no Omocha'' *Akito Takagi, main character in ''Bakuman'' *Akito Wanijima, character in the manga and anime Air Gear *Akito Himenokōji, main character in the light novel and anime series ''OniAi'' *Hiyama Akito, character in the manga, “ICE MOUNTAIN” *Akito Hyuga, character from ...
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Sean Price Williams
Sean Price Williams is an American cinematographer. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, he is based in New York. Career Williams is known for his textured, fluid camerawork (often handheld) and a heightened attention to available light. The ''New Yorker'' film critic Richard Brody described Williams (in a memorial appraisal of documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, for whom Williams served extensively as cameraman) as "the cinematographer for many of the best and most significant independent films of the past decade, fiction and documentary — including '' Frownland'', ''Yeast'', ''Fake It So Real'', '' The Color Wheel'', ''Young Bodies Heal Quickly'', '' Listen Up Philip'', the Safdie brothers' ... ''Heaven Knows What'', and Alex Ross Perry's new s of 2015feature ''Queen of Earth''." In a 2013 article for Film.com, critic Calum Marsh deemed Williams "micro-budget filmmaking's most exciting cinematographer." Marsh would go on to write in a 2014 article in Toronto's ''National Post'' ...
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Insects
Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. Their blood is not totally contained in vessels; some circulates in an open cavity known as the haemocoel. Insects are the most diverse group of animals; they include more than a million described species and represent more than half of all known living organisms. The total number of extant species is estimated at between six and ten million; In: potentially over 90% of the animal life forms on Earth are insects. Insects may be found in nearly all environments, although only a small number of species reside in the oceans, which are dominated by another arthropod group, crustaceans, which recent research has indicated insects are nested within. Nearly all insects hatch from eggs. Inse ...
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Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ...
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Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the '' Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the S ...
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South By Southwest
South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It began in 1987 and has continued to grow in both scope and size every year. In 2017, the conference lasted for 10 days with the interactive track lasting for five days, music for seven days, and film for nine days. There was no in-person event in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin, Texas; both years, there was a smaller online event instead. SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC, which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. In addition to SXSW, the company runs the conference SXSW Edu and the upcoming SXSW Sydney festival, and co-runs North by Northeast in Toronto. It has previously run or co-run the events North by Northwest (1995-2001), West by ...
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Maryland Film Festival
The Maryland Film Festival is an annual five-day international film festival taking place each May in Baltimore, Maryland. The festival was launched in 1999, and presents international film and video work of all lengths and genres. The festival is known for its close relationship with John Waters, who is on the festival's board of directors and selects a favorite film to host within each year of the festival. Each U.S. feature screened within the festival is hosted by one or more of its filmmakers. The many internationally known filmmakers who have presented their work within Maryland Film Festival include Barry Levinson, David Simon, Kathryn Bigelow, Melvin Van Peebles, Lena Dunham, Lisandro Alonso, Bobcat Goldthwait, Amy Seimetz, David Lowery (director), David Lowery, Joe Swanberg, Greta Gerwig, Barry Jenkins, Todd Solondz, Anna Biller, and Jonathan Demme. In addition to forty or more new features and fifty or more new short films, each Maryland Film Festival includes one favo ...
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25th Independent Spirit Awards
The 25th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best independent films of 2009, were presented on March 5, 2010. The nominations were announced on December 1, 2009. The ceremony was hosted by Eddie Izzard. Winners and nominees Films with multiple nominations and awards Special awards John Cassavetes Award ''Humpday'' * '' Big Fan'' * '' The New Year Parade'' * '' Treeless Mountain'' * ''Zero Bridge'' Truer Than Fiction Award '' 45365'' * '' Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo'' * ''El General'' Piaget Producers Award Karin Chien – '' The Exploding Girl'' and ''Santa Mesa'' * Larry Fessenden – ''The House of the Devil'' and '' I Sell the Dead'' * Dia Sokol Savage – ''Beeswax'' and ''Nights and Weekends'' Someone to Watch Award Kyle Patrick Alvarez – ''Easier with Practice'' * Asiel Norton – ''Redland'' * Tariq Tapa – ''Zero Bridge'' Robert Altman Award * ''A Serious Man'' – Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Ellen Chenoweth, Rachel Tenner, Rich ...
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American Documentary Films
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