Hitomi Kamanaka

Hitomi Kamanaka (Japanese鎌仲 ひとみ, Kamanaka Hitomi, born January 11, 1958 in Toyama prefecture ) is a Japanese documentary film writer and director who heavily deals with the issue of nuclear power in Japan.

Life

She studied literature at Waseda University, and participated during their student days active in the Expedition Club. Due to help work for a independent film stirred in her the desire to become a documentary filmmaker. After her graduation in 1984 she stood at KK Group Gendai (English Group Gendai Films Co., Ltd.. ) As an assistant director under contract. From 1987 she worked at K. K. Iwanami Eizo (English Iwanami audio- visual media ) in the same field of activity.

For her film Suecha ojisan Bari / yume / utsutsu ( Mr. Suécia - Bali / dream / reality ), they produced on Bali as Independent documentation they received from the Japanese Ministry of Culture funding available to you as an artist abroad can. Thus she worked from 1990 to October 1993 with a government Canadian film production company. After that, she joined the artist - activist group Paper Tiger Television in New York.

Since her return to Japan in 1995, she produced as a freelance filmmaker documentaries about medicine, economy and environment for semi- state TV broadcaster NHK, and again for the Group Gendai

In 2003, she was director of the documentary Hibakusha - sekai no owari ni (English title: Hibakusha - At the end of the world ). The film won the Earth Vision Global Environmental Film Festival first prize and received by the Office of Culture a film award for outstanding achievement in the field of documentary film, as well as a variety of other prizes. Many of her films she rotates together with Makiko Iwata as a camerawoman.

Since 2003, is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Media Studies of the Technical University of Tokyo (English Tokyo University of Technology). Other teaching assignments she has at Meiji University, the International Christian University in Japan and at Tsuda University.

Major works

Movies

  • Ima, Nihon no onnatachi ( now, Japan Women ) 1987
  • Suecha ojisan bari / yume / utsutsu ( Mr. Suécia - Bali / dream / reality ) 1990
  • Saigai wa toshi o osou - Hanshindaishinsai - kyūkyūiryō no kiroku ( A calamity will befall the city - records of emergency medical care at the Grand Osaka - Kobe Earthquake ) 1995 Price of the leadership of the National Agency for Science and Technology
  • Price of the 9th of the Fund of journalists for peace and cooperation, first prize of the 12th Earth Vision Global Environmental Film Festival, 28th Film Award of the Japanese Catholics, The special price of the nationwide Association conference of directors in 2003, first film award for outstanding achievement in the field of documentary by the Office of Arts and Culture
  • The film was shown at 400 locations in Japan
  • The film was shown at 650 locations in Japan

TV

  • Kokoro no Yamai ga toki iyasareru - ima nihon no kazoku ni nani ga okiteiru no ka ( If mental illnesses are alleviated - What's on Today in Japan's families? ) 1998 NHK Price of the ATP ( Association of All Japan TV Program Production Companies ) for outstanding achievements in the field of documentary
  • Price of the ATP ( Association of All Japan TV Program Production Companies ) for outstanding achievements in the field of documentary

Articles / Articles

  • Dokyūmentarī no chikara ( The power of documentation) ( co-author ) Kodomo no Miraisha 2005
  • Naibu - hibaku no Kyoi (risk of internal radiation exposure ) ( co-author ) Chikuma shinsho 2005
  • Hibakusha Dokyūmentarī - eiga no Genjo kara ( hibakusha - documentaries - on arrival) KAGESHOBO Publishing Co 2006
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