Yohei Shikano’s Her Beautiful Sword received the MPA Grand Prize at the MPA/DHU/TIFFCOM Pitching Contest on Thursday (October 27).
The event, which took place online as part of the TIFFCOM market that runs alongside Tokyo International Film Festival, also awarded a special recognition prize to Mio Taniguchi’s Nagahama.
The MPA Grand Prize winner is awarded a five-day study trip to the Film Immersion Course in Los Angeles, supplied by the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
The special recognition prize winner is invited to the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, which will be held in Brisbane, Australia on November 11.
Organisers said: “It will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for especially young filmmakers who are aiming to be get a chance to work internationally in the future.”
Now in its fifth year, this event was co-hosted by the MPA, Digital Hollywood University (DHU) and TIFFCOM and comprised two sessions. The first was a masterclass seminar, led by producer-director Daniel Nettheim, who divides his time between Australia and the UK. The second part was the pitching content, in which five finalists competed, with the two winners selected by jurors.
Registered market participants will be able to watch the masterclass seminar and pitching event online until the end of November.
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