AWARD

FEATURE FILM

Award for the Best Pictures
WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF (Denmark)
Director: Lone Sherfig

Award for Excellence
EDI (Poland)
Director: Piotr Trzaskalski

Award for The First-Time Director
SALT (Iceland=USA)
Director: Bradley Rust Gray

SHORT FILM

Award for the Best Pictures
CLASSMATES (Sweden)
Director: Bjorn Carlstrom, Stefan Thunberg

Award for Excellence
ETERNAL GAZE (USA)
Director: Sam Chen
COWARDLY VICIOUS (South Korea)
Director: Kwon Lee

KAWAGUCHI SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Kawaguchi Citizen's Award
Vaudevillian Dolls Dont&Not
Director: Aki Funabiki

Encouragement Award;
Canned Beauties: Bijocan
Director: Masaya Kakehi
Walking With The Dog
Director: Shinozaki Makoto

The Award Ceremony on air from 13:00 on 28th
http://www.skipcity.jp/broadband/

SKIP CITY International D-Cinema Festival

DATE
March 20th - March 28th, 2004
VENUE
Audio-Visual Hall at Sai no Kuni Visual Plaza in SKIP CITY (321 seat)
Convention Hall at Saitama Industrial Technology Center in SKIP CITY (130 seat)
Event Hall at LILIA (136 seat)

SPONSOR:
Saitama Prefecture, Kawaguchi City,
SKIP CITY International Film Festival Committee

Co-sponsor:
Sony Corporation, Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc., Sony PCL,
Sony Facility Management Corporation, Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd.,
SHIMIZU Corporation, Takenaka Corporation,
JAPAN AIRLINES COMPANY, LTD.

Support:
Agency for Cultural Affairs, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
The Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry
Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications
UNI Japan Film
Digital Content Association of Japan
Foreign Film Importer-Distributors Association of Japan
Japan Association of Audiovisual Producers, Inc.
Motion Picture and Television Engineering Society of Japan Inc.
Directors Guild of Japan
JAL Foundation

Funds provide by:
The Vehicle Racing Commemorative Foundation

With the association of:
Citizen's Circle to Support SKIP CITY International D-Cinema Festival
NPO Saitama Audio-Visual Volunteers