JAPAN PRIZE 2017 Prize Winners

The Best Proposal
< The Hoso Bunka Foundation Prize >
A Letter To Jejara
Entering Organization PS Films Production
Country/Region Myanmar
(By Cielo Salviolo)
An inspiring and powerful story that addresses in a careful and sensitive way the difficulties faced by a 14 years old Buddhist nun in Myanmar who decided to fight for her right to education.
By telling us a captivating story with a sweet but, at the same time, strong character the proposal raises awareness and inspires action about the access to education for girls and women in disadvantaged environments.
In a context in which access to education has been systematically denied for decades, this story has not only a huge educational value. It has also the potential and the opportunity to focus the discussion on the efforts that still must be done to ensure the right to education of those who are marginalized.
(By Sein Lyan Tun)
It was such an honor to receive the Huso Bunka Foundation Award. I am so glad that I could represent my country by participating in the JAPAN PRIZE 2017. It was a great achievement and valuable experience for me being finalist and one of the winners of the JAPAN PRIZE. A Letter To Jejara is not just a film about nuns. This is a film about girls who are not privileged to go to the schools though they should be in the schools. And more crucially, A Letter To Jejara is also a film about the situation of women rights, health and safety awareness in ethnic groups in Myanmar. This is all about young peoples who are looking for their own identity in their age, who dare to fight their rights for education. The film will show how our society today is and who we are today.

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