JVC announce nominations for 27th Tokyo Video Festival

JVC has announced the selection of 100 prizewinning works for the 27th Tokyo Video Festival (TVF 2005), an international video contest sponsored by JVC.
The Tokyo Video Festival started in 1978 and is the longest-running international, public participation video festival in the world. This year the judges reviewed 2,605 submissions from 39 countries and regions (1,001 from Japan, 1,604 from other countries). TVF is open to professionals and amateurs alike, and has achieved a reputation as a "forum for cultural and human exchange in the video medium."
Now in its 27th year, among the trends of this year's festival are an increase in short movie entries, a large number of entries that depict unique cultural aspects tackling everyday subjects such as education and the community, and an increase in video journalism entries that deal with war and terrorism.
The 100 winning entries will be shown at JVC's Shimbashi Building during the TVF 2005 Screening-week, February 11-17.
On Saturday February 19 JVC plans to have an Awards Ceremony (Ebisu, Tokyo) to announce the winners of the Video Grand Prize, JVC Grand Prize and High-definition Digital Video Camera Award, and to honour other exemplary entries.
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