May 31, 2006
Grand Award winner of Short Movie Contest decided
- Winners of various awards decided by voting of Yahoo! Streaming viewers and a gorgeous panel of judges -
TV Bank Corporation
Digital Hollywood, Inc.
Digital Hollywood, Inc.
TV Bank Corporation (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative and President: Masayoshi Son) and Digital Hollywood, Inc. (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and Representative Director: Shinsuke Fujimoto) announced today the winners of the Short Movie Contest held jointly by the two companies. The award-winning works can be seen at http://yahoo.tv-bank.com/contest/ on Yahoo! Streaming.
Grand Award (Prize: 1 million yen)
"Oni-yanma" (Dragonfly), Katsutoshi Oishi
Digital Hollywood Award (Prize: Scholarship for Digital Hollywood or Digital Hollywood Graduate School)
"Hana" (Flower), Kenji Kawasaki
"Yubinya-san" (Postman), Keiko Moritsugu
Judges’ Special Award
Tomoyuki Sugiyama Award: "Hana" (Flower), Kenji Kawasaki
Riichiro Mashima Award: "Kingyo" (Goldfish), Shinichiro Akiyama
Masato Ochi Award: "BoNES," Shinsaku Hidaka
Michihiko Yanai Award: "Oka Surfer" (Hill Surfer), Mark Harry/Mark Harry Films
For this Short Movie Contest, the entries selected by the contest secretariat at the first screening were publicized on Yahoo! Streaming, a video portal site provided by Yahoo Japan Corporation, and viewer voting was conducted. The most popular works were then subjected to a final screening where a panel of judges-Mr. Tomoyuki Sugiyama (Director and Head of School, Digital Hollywood), Mr. Riichiro Mashima (video artist), Mr. Masato Ochi (producer), and Mr. Michihiko Yanai (creative director) -and the contest secretariat decided the award winners after a strict examination of the works.
"Oni-yanma" (Dragonfly), awarded the Grand Award, was rated particularly highly for the unique conception; the outstanding performance of the actors acting as Oni-yanma, which gives the fictitious world reality; and the way the artist created scenes with good composition throughout the work and boldly edited all these scenes into the movie.
Grand Award (Prize: 1 million yen)
"Oni-yanma" (Dragonfly), Katsutoshi Oishi
Digital Hollywood Award (Prize: Scholarship for Digital Hollywood or Digital Hollywood Graduate School)
"Hana" (Flower), Kenji Kawasaki
"Yubinya-san" (Postman), Keiko Moritsugu
Judges’ Special Award
Tomoyuki Sugiyama Award: "Hana" (Flower), Kenji Kawasaki
Riichiro Mashima Award: "Kingyo" (Goldfish), Shinichiro Akiyama
Masato Ochi Award: "BoNES," Shinsaku Hidaka
Michihiko Yanai Award: "Oka Surfer" (Hill Surfer), Mark Harry/Mark Harry Films
For this Short Movie Contest, the entries selected by the contest secretariat at the first screening were publicized on Yahoo! Streaming, a video portal site provided by Yahoo Japan Corporation, and viewer voting was conducted. The most popular works were then subjected to a final screening where a panel of judges-Mr. Tomoyuki Sugiyama (Director and Head of School, Digital Hollywood), Mr. Riichiro Mashima (video artist), Mr. Masato Ochi (producer), and Mr. Michihiko Yanai (creative director) -and the contest secretariat decided the award winners after a strict examination of the works.
"Oni-yanma" (Dragonfly), awarded the Grand Award, was rated particularly highly for the unique conception; the outstanding performance of the actors acting as Oni-yanma, which gives the fictitious world reality; and the way the artist created scenes with good composition throughout the work and boldly edited all these scenes into the movie.
