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For Immediate Release:
July 17, 2001
"TVF 2002" JVC Tokyo Video Festival
Inspires New Video Creation for the Broadband Network Age
Winners Announced on March 21, 2002
Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) is proud to hold "TVF 2002," the JVC Tokyo Video Festival for 2002. The Festival is organized as a means of promoting the creation of content that explores the vast potential of video to deliver messages, record events, communicate information and express artistic insights.
"TVF 2002" will begin accepting entries on August 1 for Japan domestic entrants and August 15 for overseas entrants, with a deadline for receipt of November 15. The winners of the festival are scheduled to be announced in Tokyo on March 21 of next year.
JVC, the developer of the VHS standard, has held the Tokyo Video Festival (TVF) each year since 1978 in order to expand the scope of creative activities that make use of home video equipment. Having already been held a total of 23 times, the Festival has grown into the world's largest video contest and is an event awaited eagerly by video fans.
This first Tokyo Video Festival of the twenty-first century will make more active use of new media available in the coming broadband, network age. It will turn to new media both to encourage larger numbers of people to create works in a wider range of styles, and to provide new tools for announcing and publishing winning entries.
The name of this year's festival has been shortened to "TVF 2002" to create a more accessible and casual image better suited to the new age.
The main innovations for TVF 2002, the first festival of the twenty-first century, are:
Encouragement of submissions on the theme "communication from the heart" in addition to the traditional works on free subjects. (* Entrants are encouraged to use video to express their thoughts and opinions on events occurring around them in their daily lives. The organizers hope that this will provide better hints and motivation for creating entries and will make it easier for people to submit their works.)
Solicitation of works that find new uses for multimedia-ready digital video camcorders, for instance, 20-second video mails.
Thirty video works awarded for their superiority will be announced at the "Pre-week event" held in the middle of March. The participants of the event will vote on new "Pre-week Prize", and the winners will be announce on March 21, 2002.
Expanded exhibition of winning entries on the Internet and broadcast television, etc. after the announcement of awards.
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Attachment:
TVF 2002 Application Guideline
Entry Date and Deadline:
From Aug. 1 to Nov. 15, 2001 (*For overseas participants, from Aug. 15 to Nov. 15, 2001)
Entry Requirements:
Video compositions must be produced with a video camcorder in mini DV, S-VHS, VHS, and be no longer than 20 minutes.
Themes & Subjects:
Any subject matter is acceptable. Entrants are encouraged to submit the unique works. Examples include the works to express their thoughts and opinions on themes such as "cheers", "communications", and "family", and the works that find new uses for multimedia-ready digital video camcorders, for instance, 20-second video mails, etc.
Judges:
Nobuhiko Obayashi (Film Director)
Hakudo Kobayashi (Video Artist)
Hiroaki Sato (Video Artist)
Makoto Shiina (Novelist)
Susumu Hani (Film Director)
Hiroki Shimizu (Corporate Advisor, Victor Company of Japan, Limited) Awards & Prizes:
Thirty video works awarded for their superiority, including Video Grand Prize and JVC Grand Prize, etc. Within those thirty works, three works chosen for "Pre-week Prizes"
Pre-week Event:
In the middle of Mar. 2002 at the Victor Bldg., Shinbashi, Tokyo
(Announcement and screening of thirty works awarded for their superiority, voting on "Pre-week Prize", and lectures by judges)
Awards Announcement:
Awards winners will be announced and presented with their awards on Mar. 21, 2002 at the Ebisu Garden Hall, in Tokyo, Japan.
Post-week Event:
After the awards announcement, at the Victor Bldg. in Shinbashi
(Public screening of the thirty works awarded for their superiority, etc.)
For Inquiry and to Where the Entries Submitted:
Tokyo Video Festival Office
1-7-1 Shinbashi, Minatoku, Tokyo 105-0004 Japan
Tel: 81-(0)3-3289-2815
E-mail: [email protected]
< Copyright >
JVC owns the rights to reproduce, distribute, advertise, screen, broadcast or rebroadcast, by cable or airwaves or in any other form, video creations that apply to the JVC Tokyo Video Festival to promote the Festival. JVC also owns the rights to reproduce, distribute, advertise, screen, broadcast, or rebroadcast by cable or airwaves or in any other form, any entry submitted to the Festival, for marketing, advertising, publicity or in-house purposes, after receiving the consent of the entrant, for which JVC shall pay an appropriate fee to said entrant.
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