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Japan Prize 2023
The Japan Prize Festival Week

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November 22 (Wed) Day 3

3:45pm – 5:00pm

Award-winners Screenings & Discussions

Like me
(Award for the Best Work in the Youth Division)

In this episode of a teen drama series produced by Norway’s public broadcaster, NRK, 16-year-old Sophie and Leo meet again after having had sex together for the very first time. Young people’s conflicted desires to be liked and popular are depicted with searing realism.
Director and scriptwriter Anne Wisloff explains that all people have these same anxieties when young. She wants to send them the message that they are not alone.
In the post-screening discussion, Wisloff and Heitmann shared about the situation of sex education in Norwegian schools, and also which points required special care in producing a drama for teenagers on the subject of sex.

* This work contains depictions of sexual contact between teens. Parental consent should be obtained in advance before viewing by children and adolescents.

* Excerpts of the films introduced in this session have been further edited and shortened for our web page.

  • Like me
    © Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
    • Y034 Like me
    • Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
    • Norway
    • 33 min
    Anne Wisloff
    Speaker

    Anne Wisloff

    Showrunner/Director

    Christine Heitmann
    Speaker

    Christine Heitmann

    Editor in Film and TV drama
    Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

Simon Kessler
Moderator

Simon Kessler

Documentary Filmmaker

France

Simon Kessler is a filmmaker and director of photography based in Paris. He has lived and worked in the United States, Canada and Australia. He has directed a number of documentaries for French and international TV networks such as National Geographic, Disney+, Canal+, TF1. His work focuses on intimate portraits of people, places and institutions in moments of transition, with a strong emphasis on social and environmental issues. In 2020, his award-winning documentary Generation Greta (co-written with Johan Boulanger) was selected as a finalist work for the Japan Prize. When he doesn’t make films, Simon likes cooking vegetarian food, playing ukulele and singing with his daughter.

David DeHaney
Panelist

David DeHaney

Creative Director, Proper Content

United Kingdom

David launched Proper Content in 2017 producing entertaining programmes with social purpose. Highlights include Grierson award-winning Suicidal: In Our Own Words for Channel 5, the Bafta, Rose d'or and Grierson winning series The School that tried the End Racism for Channel 4 and the British Journalism award winning Black maternity Scandal.
Proper took investment from the Channel 4 Indie Growth Fund in 2020 and are now in production of a number of series with Channel 5, Channel 4, BBC and Paramount Plus.
Prior to this, David was an award-winning Director and Executive Producer, responsible for numerous series and important documentary films spanning a twenty-three-year career.
He has held senior positions in some of the UK’s leading production companies, including Love Productions, Firecracker and Nutopia.

Kirsten Y.C. Huang
Panelist

Kirsten Y.C. Huang

Assistant Professor/Senior Researcher
Radio, Television and Film Department/Media Research Center
Hsih Shin University

Taiwan

Kirsten Y. C. Huang has been lecturing and hosting award-winning media content for over two decades. As a Senior Researcher and leading media education proponent, Dr. Huang is responsible to oversee Taiwan’s children media content quality. She ensures that all Taiwan Kids’ content can inspire learning, laughing, and loving for children and adolescent. Shih Hsin University is the main production incubator in Taiwan, and as part of this important institute, Dr. Huang hopes to guide the next generation through professional production training and encourage them to challenge the world with courage!

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