Tokyo Docs 2015

Tokyo Docs 2015 Awards

Best Pitch Award

Two Tales of Whales

Megumi SASAKI/Fine Line Media Japan, Japan

A small fishing town with a proud 400-year whaling history struggles to keep their tradition alive amid the heat of global activism.

Excellent Pitch Award

Everybody is Nobody

Zhandong MA
Ai HIRANO
Zhandong MA/AsianComplex, Japan
Ai HIRANO/AsianComplex, Japan

Gambling and affairs - two-years in the life of a Chinese entrepreneur living in an unforgivingly competitive society where the weak must fend for themselves.

Memories in 1/12

Makoto SUGANO/Telecom Staff, Japan

A documentary about a couple working in a small Japanese factory who build dollhouses that recreate their clients’ favorite spaces.

Mountains, The Origin of Japan’s Spirituality

Riko HIRO/Visual Folklore Inc.
Yoko MIURA/Visual Folklore Inc.

52min x five episodes series takes us around the mountains of Japan that have long nourished the customs and cultural life of the people.

Best Asian Pitch Award

Balancing Act

Jian FAN
Zitao XU
Leer CHENG
Jian FAN/Jin Se Dao Tian, China
Zitao XU/Youku Tudou Inc, China
Leer CHENG/Youku Tudou Inc, China

A disabled farmer, a best-known poet, when fate pulls her through life’s climax to bottom, can she succeed to strike back?

Asian Side of the Doc Award

Dear Red Children

Naoki YONEMOTO/Temjin TV Production, Japan
Mayu HIRANO/Temjin TV Production, Japan

50 years after China’s Cultural Revolution, the storied lives of the foreign Red Guards are once again going through great change.

Asian Side of the Doc Award Special Mention

Ceramics: The Great History of Clay and Fire

Shohei SHIBATA/Temjin TV Production, Japan
Mary Louise DEGONDE/France

A voyage into the great history of ceramics through civilizations, art, technology and science.

Asia Dramatic TV Award

The Last Lake

Lida CHAN/CLOUD FILMS, Cambodia

Story of a fisherman whose livelihood depends on a lake with a rich ecosystem, which is being transformed due to an urban development project.

Development Fund

The Child Football Warriors

500,000 Japanese yen

Sheron Rebollos DAYOC/Southern Lantern Studios, the Philippines

Two children of war are brought together to represent their villages at the junior national football tournament in Manila, the Philippines.

The Last Lake

500,000 Japanese yen

Lida CHAN/CLOUD FILMS, Cambodia

Story of a fisherman whose livelihood depends on a lake with a rich ecosystem, which is being transformed due to an urban development project.

Memories in 1/12

1,000,0000 Japanese yen

Makoto SUGANO/Telecom Staff, Japan

A documentary about a couple working in a small Japanese factory who build dollhouses that recreate their clients’ favorite spaces.

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