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Serielizados Fest premieres a fascinating documentary about the incredible true story of the “Japanese Truman Show”. A unique approach to the limits of reality television that will not leave you indifferent.
The documentary section of Serielizados Fest will host the Spanish premiere of this surprising film, The Contestant, a British production but focused on the protagonist of a Japanese reality show, Susunu! Denpa Shōnen, from the late 1990s who stayed naked in a room for over a year, tasked with entering magazine sweepstakes to win food and clothes.
Live life in the purest Truman Show style; before the groundbreaking irruption of reality shows like Big Brother in the West, there was in Japan an ominous harbinger of what was to come in our oversharing-obsessed culture. The Contestant chronicles the experience of aspiring comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu, nicknamed Nasubi, who unwittingly became an extreme case study.
Clair Titley directs The Contestant, one of the most WTF stories in the documentary selection of this edition of the festival.