JAPAN PRIZE 2006 : Runners-up

JAPAN PRIZE 2005 : Runners-up The Best Program List of Entry
Program Division / Adult Education
Program Title Mirror Image: Parents (6)
Organization Televisio de Catalunya
Country Spain
*Winner of the Maeda Prize
This is an innovative documentary series that simply observes. All the film is shot by the subjects themselves, in this case a dozen 20-year-olds who were carefully chosen with the help of two educational psychologists. The girls and boys were given a digital video camera for three weeks during which they recorded over 150 hours of their lives. The production team then sorted the footage into thematic episodes. They were given only one guideline: "Be natural". They were the ones to decide what and when they filmed. The result is a refreshingly new look at the lives of twenty-year-olds and is packed with raw, genuine emotion.
This episode's theme is "parents". In one case, a physically challenged girl youngster films herself changing cloths and her mother helping her and complains to the camera that she cannot have any privacy from her parents. In another case, a boy speaks to the camera as he walks and films himself and his father going out to eat together as they do every month.
The narration and behavior that appeared in the video are taken from real life. The youngsters express themselves very naturally by telling what they really think and feel and showing their real daily lives such as an exposed upper body. Mirror Image is very popular not only among young people but also older viewers and got the highest rating in Catalonia.
Program Title The New Heroes:
Dream of Sanctuary (Episode 1)
Organization Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB)
Country United States
In India, Kailash Satyarthi rescues brutally enslaved children in daring raids and promotes a radical vision to end forced child labor. In Kenya, Martin Fisher and Nick Moon introduced a low-cost, manual water pump that can double the yield of a small farm. In Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus founded a bank that has loaned billions of dollars to millions of poor families, all without any collateral.
Hosted by Robert Redford, The New Heroes tells twelve dramatic stories of brilliant social entrepreneurs who are undaunted by the chronic challenges of poverty, illness, unemployment, violence and ignorance they see in the world around them. With a revolutionary passion for transforming society, daring strategies to achieve fundamental change, and an unstoppable will to overcome obstacles that preserve the status quo, they tackle the most intractable social problems and achieve extraordinary success.
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