Hitomi Kamanaka

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Hitomi Kamanaka ( Japanese 鎌 仲 ひ と み , Kamanaka Hitomi ; born January 11, 1958 in Toyama Prefecture ) is a Japanese documentary writer and director who deals with the subject of nuclear power in Japan.

Life

She studied literature at Waseda University and was an active participant in the expedition club during her student days. As she worked as a volunteer for an independent film, she felt the desire to become a documentary filmmaker. After completing her studies in 1984, she was contracted to KK Group Gendai ( Group Gendai Films Co., Ltd. ) as an assistant director. From 1987 she worked at Iwanami Eizō KK (English IWANAMI audio-visual media ) in the same field of activity.

For her film Suecha ojisan Bari / yume / utsutsu (Mr. Suécia - Bali / Dream / Reality), which she produced as an independent documentary in Bali, she received funding from the Japanese Office for Culture in order to be able to go abroad as an artist. As a result, she worked from 1990 to October 1993 for a Canadian state film production company. She then joined the artist-activist group Paper Tiger Television in New York.

Since returning to Japan in 1995, she has been producing documentaries on medicine, the economy and the environment as a freelance filmmaker for the semi-state TV broadcaster NHK and again for the Gendai group

In 2003 she was the director of the documentary film Hibakusha - sekai no owari ni (English title: Hibakusha - At the end of the world ). The film won first prize at the Earth Vision Global Environmental Film Festival and received a film award from the Office of Culture for exceptional performance in the field of documentary, as well as a variety of other awards. She shoots many of her films with Iwata Makiko as camerawoman.

Since 2003 she has been an assistant professor at the media science faculty of the Tokyo University of Technology . She also teaches at Meiji University , the International Christian University in Japan and Tsuda University .

Major works

Movies

  • Ima, Nihon no onnatachi (Now, Japan's Women) 1987
  • Suecha ojisan bari / yume / utsutsu (Mr. Suécia - Bali / dream / reality) 1990
  • Saigai wa toshi o osou - Hanshindaishinsai-kyūkyūiryō no kiroku (A disaster strikes the city - Emergency Medical Care Records in the Great Osaka-Kobe Earthquake) 1995
    • National Science and Technology Administration Award
  • Hibakusha - sekai no owari ni (English title: HIBAKUSHA - At the end of the world) 2003
    • Prize of the 9th Prize of the Journalists' Fund for Peace and Cooperation, First Prize of the 12th Earth Vision Global Environmental Film Festival, 28th Japanese Catholic Film Prize, the Special Prize of the National Liaison Conference of Film Directors 2003, 1st Film Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Film by the Office for Art and Culture
    • The film was shown in 400 locations in Japan
  • Rokkasho-mura rapusodī (English title: Rokkashomura Rhapsody) 2006
    • The film was shown in 650 locations in Japan
  • Mitsubachi no haoto to chikyū no kaiten (English title: Ashes to Honey for searching a sustainable future) 2010

watch TV

  • Kokoro no yamai ga iyasareru toki - ima nihon no kazoku ni nani ga okiteiru no ka (When Mental Illnesses Are Relieved - What Happens in Japan's Families Today?) 1998 NHK
    • ATP (Association of All Japan TV Program Production Companies) award for excellence in documentary film
  • Ende no igon (The will of Michael Ende) 1999 NHK
  • Senka ni mimawareta kodomotachi - wangan-sensō hachi-nen ato no iraku (The children afflicted by the calamity of the war - Iraq eight years after the Gulf War) 1999 NHK
  • Gan o ikinuku kibō o sasaeru iryō no kiroku (Records of Medicine Supporting the Desire to Survive Cancer) 2001 NHK
    • ATP (Association of All Japan TV Program Production Companies) award for excellence in documentary film

Articles / essays

  • Dokyūmentarī no chikara (The Power of Documentation) (Co-Author) Kodomo no Miraisha 2005
  • Naibu-hibaku no kyōi (danger from internal radiation exposure) (co-author) Chikuma shinsho 2005
  • Hibakusha Dokyūmentarī-eiga no genjō kara (HIBAKUSHA Documentaries - On Location) KAGESHOBO Publishing Co 2006

Web links

literature

  • (2013) Bauer, Lars: Hibakusha, Radiation Victims - A Global Phenomenon: An Interview with Kamanaka Hitomi . In: Lisette Gebhardt, Steffi Richter (ed.): Reader "Fukushima". Translations, commentaries, essays . Berlin: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt, pp. 235-252. ISBN 978-3-86893-103-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Earthday (2009): 鎌 仲 ひ と み プ ロ フ ィ ー ルhttp://www.earthday-chofu.sakura.ne.jp/earthday2009/kamanaka.html (April 14, 2011)
  2. ↑ Mitsubachi (2010): 【イ ベ ン ト】 4 月 25 日 鎌 仲 ひ と み × 飯 田 哲 也 × マ エ キ タ ミ ヤ コ fromNaked Loft http://888earth.net/staffblog/2010/03/425fromnaked-loft.html (April 8, 2011)
  3. ↑ Magazine9 (2007): マ ガ ジ ン ９ ～ こ の 人 に 聞 き ​​た い 『鎌 仲 ひ と み さ ん に 聞 い た』 ～http://www.magazine9.jp/interv/kamanaka/kamanaka2.php (April 12, 2011)
  4. ↑ Rokkashomura Rhapsody (2008): 六 ヶ 所 村 ラ プ ソ デ ィ ー ： プ ロ フ ィ ー ルhttp://www.rokkasho-rhapsody.com/_credit/profile (April 15, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Kamanaka, Hitomi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 鎌 仲 ひ と み (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese director
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Toyama Prefecture , Japan