Annual International Video Festival Attracts Entries from around the World
JVC Seeks Entries for the 31st Annual Tokyo Video Festival, TVF2009
Sponsored by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC)
Supported by the city of Yokohama
Assisted by Landmark Hall
Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) is pleased to announce the 31st Tokyo Video Festival,TVF2009. The international video festival, TVF2009 will begin accepting entries for the festival from all countries and regions throughout the world on Friday, June 20, 2008.
The closing date for entry is Tuesday, September 30, 2008. Entries will be evaluated by the TVF2009 Judging Committee including film director Nobuhiko Obayashi, novelist Makoto Shiina and animation film director Isao Takahata. 100 Selected winning entries are planned to be announced in January 2009.
Excellence Award winners will be chosen from among the 100 Selected winners. The Announcement and Awards Ceremony will be held at Landmark Hall in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo. Selected and Excellence winners will be given their awards and the Grand Prize winning entries will be announced.
■ About the Tokyo Video Festival (TVF)
JVC has held TVF, the world’s biggest-scale international personal video festival, annually since 1978 as an “event open for everyone to participate in”, inviting people of all ages, men and women, both pro and amateur from all around the world to participate. TVF aims to “explore the possibilities in visual expression using video” and to “promote exchange between the cultures of the world through images.”
Last year’s festival, the 30th Tokyo Video Festival, TVF2008, received an all-time record of 2,010 video entries, including 750 from Japan and 1,260 from 53 countries and regions worldwide. Approximately 50,000 home video works from about 100 countries and regions have been submitted since the first festival in 1978.
■ TVF 2009 Application Guideline
1. Entry Date and Deadline:
From June 20, 2008 to September 30, 2008
2. Entry Requirements:
Video compositions must be produced with a video camcorder, and supplied on mini DV, VHS, S-VHS, DVD-R or Blu-ray, and be no longer than 20 minutes.
3. Themes & Subjects:
Any subject matter is acceptable.
4. Judges:
| Nobuhiko Obayashi | Film Director |
| Hakudo Kobayashi | Video Artist and Professor at Seian University of Art and Design |
| Hiroaki Sato | Video Artist and a teacher at Nippon Engineering College |
| Makoto Shiina | Novelist |
| Isao Takahata | Animation Film Director |
| Susumu Hani | Film Director |
5. Awards & Prizes:
| Video Grand Prize (1 work) (Grand Prize) |
500,000 yen (including prize money for the Excellence Awards). JVC hard disk camcorder “Everio”, trophy, certificate, a round-trip to Japan for award ceremony (1 person) |
| JVC Grand Prize (1 work) (Semi-Grand Prize) |
400,000 yen (including prize money for the Excellence Awards). JVC hard disk camcorder “Everio”, trophy, certificate, a round-trip to Japan for award ceremony (1 person) |
| Excellence Awards (approx. 30 works) |
100,000 yen, plaque, and certificate |
| Selected works (approx. 70 works) | Plaque and certificate |
*Winners of the Video Grand Prize and the JVC Grand Prize will be selected from the Excellence Awards winners.
| People’s Awards (3 works) | Plaque |
*Excellence Award and Selected work winners (approx. 100 works) automatically become candidates for the "People's Awards" determined by votes from the general public at our Japanese web site.
6. Date and Place of Announcement, Awards Ceremony and Screening events:
From February 28 (Sat.), 2009 to March 1 (Sun.), 2009 at Landmark Hall in Yokohama,
Kanagawa Prefecture
7. Address for Inquiry and Submitting Entries:
TVF Office, Victor Company of Japan, Limited
Victor Building 3F, 1-7-1 Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0004, Japan
Tel: 81-(0) 3-3289-2815
Fax: 81-(0) 3-3289-2819
For further details and JVC affiliated offices accepting entries around the world, please visit the Tokyo Video Festival web site: http://www.jvc.co.jp/english/tvf/
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