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EARTH
VISION The Ninth Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival was held from
1st to 3rd March, 2001. About 2000 audiences came to watch the films and
joined in the ceremony. EARTH VISION Organization received 91entries( Japan65, Asian countries 18, Australia8) for year 2000. Many of entries were characterized by the water issues, food issues, waste issues. At last, 11films were nominated and screened on 1st and 2nd March 2001, and 3 films were received the Prizes. |
| Prize | Title | Year Country min. |
Producer Director |
Summery | |||
| EARTH VISION Grand Prize | People's
Planet : Feeding Nine Billion |
2000 Japan 59 |
Yoshitsugu
Harada Miwako Nishikawa |
Today's food problems including demographic explosion, water shortage, and genetically modified foods. Where are we heading in the 21st century? | |||
| Juror's Special Prize | Where
War Has Passed |
2000 Vietnam 20 |
Vietnam
National Studio for Documen- tary Scientific Films Vu Le My |
Chemical defoliants are still undermining the health of the people in Vietnam even 25 years after the war | |||
| Exce- llence Prize |
Eagle
Owl |
2000 Korea 58 |
Sang-Bum
Lee Soo-Yong Park |
The life of eagle owls - the hunter of the woods | |||
| Nominated Film | Unique
Ideas for Saving the Earth |
2000 Japan 26 |
Itaru
Hasegawa Takeshi Chonan |
Innovated approaches to waste treatment in Freiburg (Germany), Curitiba (Brazil), and Minamata (Japan). | |||
| Nominated Film | The
Chikugo River: Living with a Water Sprite |
2000 Japan 103 |
Minako
Matsuo Yohiso Akagiri |
How the Chikugo River has shaped people's life and influenced their culture. | |||
| Nominated Film | Godspeed,
Orangutan |
2000 Japan 49 |
Hidenori
Kawauchi Atsushi Hayashi/ Takashi Kurokawa |
Orangutans being trained at a rehabilitation center in Indonesia in preparation for their return to the wilderness. The Japanese too, are partly to be blamed for the poaching of these animals. | |||
| Nominated Film | Glacial
Meltdown |
2000 Japan 49 |
Osamu
Kaga Syoji Siraishi |
In the deep Himalayan mountains, many people are threatened by the danger of floods caused by global warming. | |||
| Nominated Film | Where
Have All the Garbage Gone?: Illigal
Dumping of Japan's Industrial Waste |
2000 Japan 47 |
Fukashi
Tashiro Atsuhi Horikawa |
Illegal dumping by a Japanese industrial wastes management contractor in the Philippines led to diplomatic standoffs. A close look at the structural problems of illegal dumping. | |||
| Nominated Film | Harvesting
Hunger |
2000 India 52 |
Krishnendu Bose | Can barren land caused by the massive use of pesticides and agricultural fertilizers be revived? Doubt is cast on our modern agricultural methods. | |||
| Nominated Film | The
Passing Water |
1999 Taiwan 51 |
Nancy Liu | People fighting against dam construction to save their hometown from drowning. | |||
| Nominated Film | La
Nina |
1999 Australia 50 |
Klaus Toft | The mechanism of the La Ni_a phenomenon that brings deluge to the Australian deserts, and the lives of creatures living there. | |||
