Morning of June 8th, the MIDA director's Plan Masters Class continues its second day with an impressive list of internationally renowned guests. Fujioka Asako from Japan's YIDFF, Ally Derks of the Amsterdam IDFA, and Chris McDonald from the Canadian Toronto Documentary Film Festival are to speak at today's Masters Class. This impressive group of international guests will conduct an exciting lecture on documentary films to enthusiasts of documentary films.

Fujioka Asako's topic today is "Grassroots Culture of Chinese and Japanese Documentaries". She believes the analysis of popular exchanges of documentary subjects between China and Japan annotates this topic well. She also invited prominent guests from the 2008 REAL to explore this topic. Fujioka said: "problems can arise when people gather in one place. In other words, when people from different backgrounds meet for better or worse, they provide a rich source of life material for a film.

Nakamura Takahiro, the director of "Yokohama Mary" said: "to foster exchanges of ideas between China and Japan we should start with things that can be done within our capabilities. I would like to start with first showing documentaries from our country. Since 2008 we have switched to documentaries as a form of ideas exchange." Mr. Shiota also brought some of his film to be shown live with regards to Japan's environmental, historical, regional, elderly and art from other fields to describe the situation in Japan. The four lecturers also talked about the five days and four nights of the 2008 REAL event that took place at Furu Yashiki Mura.

Ally Derks topic was "The Road to Success for Young Directors" and showcased IDFA, she said: "IDFA took on an educational role with events such as a summer course for students. One of the reasons that IDFA became successful is that we reach out to young audiences and this is also a suggestion to MIDA, it is important to provide training to young directors."

Chris McDonald is from the Toronto Documentary Film Festival in Canada where over 40 different subject matters are showcased annually. Through events such as training sessions for documentary film makers and creating public networks. Today Chris McDonald spoke on the topic of "The International Spread of Asian Image" and "A Country without Documentaries is like a Family without a Photo Album". Chris mentions that: "we wish these stories can affect the audience through gorgeous pictures, great sound and editing work, great storyline and have rich and attractive characters that are unique. We hope that the audience will respond strongly to this and feel that they are both entertained as well as educated and be motivated to think deeply." Chris McDonald then invited the director of "Last Train Home" Fang Lixing on stage to share his experiences. Fan Lixing said: "as a director, it is difficult to ask a Chinese director who understands English, and Western thinking. It is better to find a film maker who can make international films although they are rare in China. However, I hope there will more of them through events such as this. Also, you should tell a good story. A film is suppose to notice what the expectations of the audience and this does not mean you have to give up your creative views. But rather a movie is made to be seen and not just put on a shelf somewhere."