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JVC to Hold 29th Tokyo Video Festival 'TVF 2007'; 31 Works Chosen for 'Excellence Award', 69 as 'Selected Work'.


Tokyo Tokyo (tō`kēō), city (1990 pop. 8,163,573), capital of Japan and of Tokyo prefecture, E central Honshu, at the head of Tokyo Bay. , Japan, Jan 22, 2007 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News
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 Newswire) - Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC JVC Victor Company of Japan (or Japan's Victor Company)
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 2007). TVF is an international video contest sponsored by JVC. This year the judges reviewed 3,491 submissions from 55 countries and regions (841 from Japan, 2,650 from other countries).

JVC will hold "TVF 2007 Screening-week, open for the general public, for five days from Saturday Saturday: see week; Sabbath. , February 24 to Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at the Victor Shimbashi Building. It will feature a Program Screening event showing 55 domestic Japanese videos on a large screen, as well as a Prize Winner Audiovisual See A/V.  Fair where all prize winning videos can be enjoyed at individual audiovisual booths. Visitors will be able to enjoy many fascinating works from the Tokyo Video Festival.

All 100 prize winning works will be available for viewing on the JVC web site beginning Friday, January 19. Viewers from the general public are encouraged to complete a web survey with a deadline on Thursday, Feb. 22 that will be used to select 3 videos for "People Awards" from among the 100 prize winning works.

The Announcement and Awards Ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, March 3 at "the Pacifico Yokohama Pacifico Yokohama (パシフィコ横浜) is a convention center in Japan located in the western region of Minato Mirai Nishi-ku Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. " in Yokohama, Kanagawa. (Admission is free and open to the public.) It will be supported by the Yokohama Economic and Tourism Bureau and the 150th Anniversary of the Port Opening of Yokohama City. The two winners of this year's top prizes, the "Video Grand Prize" and the "JVC Grand Prize," will be selected from among the 31 works awarded the "Excellence Award."

TVF started in 1978 and is the longest-running international, public-participation video festival in the world. It is open to professionals and amateurs alike. It has been held annually to promote cultural exchange by video and to search for possibilities of free expression with videos. A wide variety of videos earned awards in this 29th year of the video festival, including penetrating penetrating

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 works that address social issues, videos that show the workings of nature based on tireless observation, documentaries and art pieces that express the video-maker's thoughts through original images, as well as dramas that various groups obviously had fun producing. The under-thirty age group earned many awards, promising a bright future for young talent.

Outline of TVF 2007 Screening Week
Date:         Saturday, February 24, 2007 through
                Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Venue:        1F and B1F, the Victor Bldg.
                 1-7-1 Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Program:      1. Program Screening event
                 Primarily Japanese prize winning works
                 will be shown for the public according
                 to the program by themes and genres.
              2. Lectures by TVF Judges
                 "Think about Video Socialism" by Hakudo Kobayashi
                  Date & Time: Saturday, Feb. 24, 7:00p.m.-8:00p.m.
                 "Video Education" by Hiroaki Sato
                  Date & Time: Sunday, Feb. 25, 6:00p.m.-7:00p.m.
              3. Prize Winner Audiovisual Fair

Individual booths will be placed to freely view all 100 prize winning
works.


Outline of TVF 2007 Award Ceremony

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Date: Saturday, March 3, 2007

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Program: Presentation of awarded works, talk forum,

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Outline of Tokyo Video Festival

TVF is the world largest international video contest, annually hosted by JVC since 1978 to popularize pop·u·lar·ize  
tr.v. pop·u·lar·ized, pop·u·lar·iz·ing, pop·u·lar·iz·es
1. To make popular: A famous dancer popularized the new hairstyle.

2.
 video culture very close to society and people's personal lives, as well as to increase possibilities to send messages and free expression with videos. Since the first festival in 1978, the JVC Tokyo Video Festival has received more than 48,000 home video

works.

The festival is open to professionals, amateurs, individuals, and groups of any nationality nationality, in political theory, the quality of belonging to a nation, in the sense of a group united by various strong ties. Among the usual ties are membership in the same general community, common customs, culture, tradition, history, and language.  and ages. Video compositions must be produced with a video camera. Playback Playback could mean:
  • The re-playing of recorded media.
  • Gapless playback, the seamless playback of digital audio formats (i. e. ipods, mp3 players)
  • Playback singer, a practice in Bollywood musicals.
 time must not exceed 20 minutes. Any subject matter is acceptable.

The video judging committee is made up of experts from many fields. Along with showcasing outstanding and topical topical /top·i·cal/ (top´i-k'l) pertaining to a particular area, as a topical antiinfective applied to a certain area of the skin and affecting only the area to which it is applied.

top·i·cal
adj.
 works that always reflect the changing times and gather a lot of attention, TVF conveys the enjoyment and usefulness of video-making to a large number of people, and provides motivation for the creation of new video content.

The TVF 2007 Judging Committee

Mr. Nobuhiko Obayashi, Film Director; Mr. Hakudo Kobayashi, Video Artist and Professor of Seian University of Art and Design; Mr. Hiroaki Sato, Video Artist and a teacher at Nippon Engineering College; Mr. Makoto Shiina, Novelist; Mr. Isao Takahata Isao Takahata (高畑 勲 Takahata Isao , Animation Film Director; Mr. Susumu Hani, Film Director; and Mr. Masanori Kitami, Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC).

Works will be available at the TVF page on the JVC web site:

http://www.victor.co.jp/tvf/index.html

(Only available on the Japanese site.)

About JVC

Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange.

TSE

1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).

2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE).
: 6792; US: VJAPY), known worldwide as JVC, is well-known for its development of the VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier.  video standard, and has developed as an international company in the fields of audio, visual (A&V), information-related equipment, components, and entertainment for the domestic consumer market, as well as in the business market as a comprehensive provider of both hardware and software. JVC has received high praise in both domestic consumer and business markets. Visit the JVC home page at www.jvc.co.jp .

Source: JVC

Contact:
Press information:
Toshiya Ogata, Senior Staff Manager or
Fusako Adachi, Assistant Manager
Public Relations Group
Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC)
Tel: +81-3-3289-1458
Fax: +81-3-3289-0376
E-mail: ogata-toshiya@jvc-victor.jp, adachi-fusako@jvc-victor.jp
URL: http://www.victor.co.jp

General information:
Akihito Nakakuki, Assistant Manager
Tokyo Video Festival Office
Corporate Communications Department
Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC)
Tel: +81-3-3289-2815
Fax: +81-3-3289-2819
E-mail: nakakuki-akihito@jvc-victor.jp


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