Yoko Narita(Executive Director, Aomori International LGBT Film Festival)

At last years festival, I was overwhelmed with indescribable emotion as images from the first festival floated across the screen. The dedication of those early volunteers, the significance of having kept it all going for 20 years, the feelings of the staff who, having inherited the tradition, thought to express in images what their predecessors had accomplished?everything came together to move me in a way words cannot do justice. This year, again, I feel so excited I can hardly wait for this amazing festival.