The Brink of Dreams, a documentary about a group of Egyptian girls who form a street theater troupe, was awarded the Grand Prix at the Japan Prize Festival.
From Felucca Films and Dolce Vita Films and represented by The Party Film Sales, the doc was awarded as the 52nd edition of the Japan Prize came to a close in Tokyo. The international competition is organized by NHK to celebrate content that expands the possibilities of education through media.
India’s Khaas: Different But Equal from Handimachal Therapy Centre won for best proposal, while the award for outstanding proposal went to the Brazilian animated production Grandma’s Wonder Lab from OZ Audiovisual and Communication Production.
Japan Prize previously announced the winners in each division: preschool went to Lena’s Farm from Germany and Croatia, with an honorable mention for Tweedy & Fluff from the U.K. For kids the award for best work was presented to the Belgian/French animation Autokar, with award of honor to Media Stamped from North America. The youth award went to The Brink of Dreams, with NHK’s Let’s Talk About It! scoring the award of honor.
In the lifelong learning division, the top award was presented to Where The Kids Have No Name, a Dutch/Bangladeshi collaboration. From Singapore, Walk the Line was presented the award of honor.
From NTR in the Netherlands, I Am Invisible was awarded the Special Prize. A jury commendation was presented to Another Body from the U.S.
