3rd Okinawa International Movie Festival
Main stage of 3rd Okinawa International Movie Festival,
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| Opening film | Manzai Gang |
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| Closing film | Forgotten Silver |
| Location | Okinawa Island, Japan |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Awards | Golden Shisa Award (Hankyū Densha) |
| Festival date | March 18 – 27, 2011 |
| Website | http://www.oimf.jp |
The 3rd Okinawa International Movie Festival was held from March 18 to March 27, 2011 and took place at the Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan City and Sakurazaka Theater in Naha, owned and run by Japanese director Yuji Nakae.
This was the first Okinawa International Movie Festival to include the 'Contents Bazaar' to promote co-productions between U.S. and Japanese TV companies, though due to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami Yoshimoto's Hollywood partners CAA did not to send representatives.
In addition, the festival also launched two new elements in 2001, The Local Origination Project for films made in locations around Japan, from Niigata to Okinawa, and the Jimot CM Competition which received ideas for TV commercials with the aim of publicizing local products and attractions from a round Japan. From 565 ideas, 10 were selected as finalists with the winner receiving a ¥470,000 prize and a terrestrial TV screening. Live music was provided by Rimi Natsukawa, Kariyushi 58 and Begin at Ginowan Seaside Park.
The Golden Shisa was awarded to Japanese director Yoshishige Miyake for his film Hankyū Densha.
The festival was scaled back as a result of the March 11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami with many guests cancelling their visits and attendance down on the previous year from 380,000 to 310,000. Only British comic writer Tony Hawks and Taiwanese director Yeh Tien Lun attended from abroad. The event was instead turned into a fundraiser raising more than US$1 million, including ¥10,949,189 (approx. US$125,000) collected by 550 staff during the event itself. Organizers Yoshimoto Kogyo had a history of assisting in the face of such disasters having set up Osaka's first FM radio network following the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe in 1995.
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