The press conference is open to public and will utilize Japan's oldest pipe organ the hall possesses. If you would like to know this year's SHITACOME's line-up sooner than your friends, please check it out.
*In order to enter the hall, the normal admission fee will be charged.
 (Adult: 300 yen/ junior high school student and under: 100 yen)
 

Time and date:   
Opening at 13:00pm, starting at 13:30, 11th August (Tue)
 

Venue:
Concert Hall of Tokyo Music School
(10 min. walk from the Ueno Station, next to the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
 

Appearances:
Hiroshi Yoshizumi

   (Chairman of the festival's Executive Committee, Taito City Mayor)
Seiko Ito

   (General Creative Producer of the festival)
Nobuhiko Obayashi

   (film director, jury member of "SHITA COME Grand Prize 2009", the short film competition section)
Kayoko Kishimoto

    (actress, jury member of "SHITA COME Grand Prize 2009")

Keisuke Horibe

   (actor, entertainer, film director, jury member of "SHITA COME Grand Prize 2009")

This year's SHITA COME's visual is illustrated by Keiko Sootome, a new author creating new trends in Japanese pop culture with her eccentric, nostalgic visual style reminiscent of the Showa-Era.