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  • Congratulations to Mizuko Yamaoka!

    2022 JDFA winning film, Maelstrom (Mizuko Yamaoka) will be shown on 9/29/22 as part of the second annual SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festiival. 
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    Congratulations to Grand Prize winner Tokashi Tsuchiya for his winning film An Ant Strikes Back and to Honorable Mention winner Nanako Hirose for her film Book-Paper-Scissors.   

The Japan Council of the University of Pittsburgh and SCREENSHOT: ASIA are pleased thrilled to announce that Mizuko Yamaoka's Maelstrom is the 2022 winner of the JDFA! Maelstrom is  Yamaoka’s story of “loss and rebirth” due to a drastic life change from a car accident that damaged her cervical vertebrae. A profoundly humanist tale of tragedy and rebirth, Yamaoka's intimate documentary is both a telling of her own losses and a portrait of human experience.

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