Creator’s Factory Winners Receive Awards
2015年10月16日(金) Report
The Creator’s Factory held an Awards Ceremony for its 2015 winners on Friday October 16th at the Ooe Noh Theater, called Ooe Nogakudo in Japanese. The charming hall, built in 1908 (renovated in 1919), provided a wonderful, traditional atmosphere for the proceedings. Constructed entirely from wood and with traditional tatami floor seating, the interior even has a Zen-like rock garden in front of the stage.
The Creator’s Factory at the Kyoto International Film and Art Festival launched during the 5th Okinawa International Movie Festival and is now awarded at its sister festival in Kyoto. Its purpose is to discover and encourage gifted young artists, and it allows creators across genres as well as filmmakers to compete for the prizes.
MC Raikeda Tanaka handled the Awards Ceremony and announced the prize winners in each section. In the film division director Takeshi Ogawa won the prize for Best Period Film. The youthful Ogawa took the stage and paid tribute to his crew and actors. “The actors and everyone working on the film really gave it their all and I’m extremely grateful to them,” he said. director Kazuo Nagai took home the prize for Best Live Action Feature Film. He expressed his gratitude to the Creator’s Factory and the festival. Finally the Non-Genre section director David Jansen grabbed the award. Jansen wasn’t able to attend the proceedings so an associate of his production company in Japan, Mao Mieda, accepted the award on his behalf. She mentioned that the day the team learned of Jansen’s victory was also his birthday, so it was a doubly happy day.
For the awards in Art section the Grand Prize for Children went to Maiki Kimura. The grade-schooler was overcome with joy on the stage and had to take a few moments to compose himself. He told the crows that he extremely happy to show his art to people using the medium of the Creator’s Factory and explained that he based his prize-winning work on the face of a friend of his. The Art Grand Prize went to Hikaru Sakihama, who expressed his joy over the victory.
All the winners received a stunning golden fan, inscribed with their victory.
