"The Grand Prix went to Wood Child & Hidden Forest Mother by Stephen Irwin (UK). The award includes a 1 million yen prize (US$9600).
The festival received 2,174 entries from 91 countries this year. From that, 100 short films and 5 features were selected. The international jury - Naohiro Ukawa, Hiroko Tasaka and AC-Bu - also presented numerous other awards, including those for new talent and Japan competition categories."
BIG thanks to Rooftop Films who awarded Wood Child and Hidden Forest Mother one of their filmmaker grants.
"The Kayla Thomas Filmmaker grant, in commemoration of our dear friend
and teammate, will be rewarded every year to one or more Rooftop Films
alumni filmmakers to help them to complete a short or feature film that
communicates the power of hope, collaboration and togetherness to make
positive change. As we were creating this grant we knew we wanted to
help new films get made, and particularly to support films that we
thought would make Kayla happy."
Full list of awards in this Variety article.
They gave The Obvious Child a grant a few years back, helping get the film finished and out there. Now they've done it again with Wood Child. Great bunch!
