[3][4][2] Early jury members included Nagisa Oshima and Shuji Terayama, and the second festival featured such later star directors as Sogo Ishii, Yoshimitsu Morita, and Shunichi Nagasaki.
"[5] Other filmmakers who were screened at the PFF before making their professional debut include Joji Iida, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Akihiko Shiota, Ryosuke Hashiguchi, Shinobu Yaguchi, Lee Sang-il, Naoko Ogigami, Kazuyoshi Kumakiri,[2] Sion Sono,[6] Naomi Kawase, and Yuya Ishii.
[7] The PFF Award Competition accepts submissions with "no restrictions whatsoever on the eligibility of its entrants" with no regard to whether the work is on film of video, is long or short, is fiction, documentary, or animation.
[1] The festival also features retrospectives of international filmmakers such as John Cassavetes and Lee Sang-woo.
Begun in 1984, PFF Scholarship films include A Touch of Fever (1992), Down the Drain (1993), Hole in the Sky (2001), Border Line (2002), Yoshino's Barber Shop (2003), Park and Love Hotel (2007), A Stranger of Mine, Sawako Decides, and Household X.