After a difficult decision from our Premiere Judges, here are the Primary and Secondary School Grand Prix winners and other award winners. Please take a look at these wonderful videos.
Messages from the teams that were selected as finalists. Here are the thoughts & backstories behind each video.
China
Beijing Haidian Wanquan Primary School
Message from our Finalist
The children wanted to say they feel very tired doing many things, every day. The children of China, especially in the capital Beijing are facing high competitive pressures. They will definitely be very educated but it is far beyond what they can undertake at their age. Sometimes they just want to have some fun.
Thailand
Assumption Samutprakarn School
Message from our Finalist
The main idea of this is to make everyone aware of what they are doing. If you aren’t good at anything, you will need to try hard and overcome all the struggles. If you are good at something, you still need to practice and not be careless. In a competition, the important thing is not about winning or losing, but having true sportsmanship and willingness of making this world a better place.
Malaysia
Long Sepiling Primary School
Message from our Finalist
From this video, the students of Long Sepiling Primary School tries to highlight the lessons and the moral values focusing on the use of hands. Hands are one of the most beneficial parts given by god. Damage are made from hand, but with hand we also fix. Hands connect us humans. It even connects us with our Creator.
Japan
Fukushima Prefectural Iwaki Senior High School
Message from our Finalist
Some people will be saved by your unconscious generous actions. Some closed hearts will open from your unconscious actions. We created this film, because we wish to tell the message, “there are messages transmitted just with actions.”
Germany
Wirsberg-Gymnasium
Message from our Finalist
To look behind the scenes of the Wirsberg Studios - that is a tempting offer for some viewers. With the last production, everybody understands what it means to work and survive professionally in the film industry. And of course the full richness of all the experiences so far was able to slip into the production. By watching the film it shows clearly on the trials and tribulations of making a movie. The team is fully aware of the fact that making a movie requires a wide range of professional abilities!
United Arab Emirates
Elite Private School
Message from our Finalist
If we try to put ourselves in their shoes we connect to them indefinitely as human beings and through sympathy we hear each other’s afflictions.
Thailand
Montfort College
Message from our Finalist
We would like to introduce to you our story about people with major depressive disorder. Recently our world has this growing problem. We want everyone to understand the patients thoughts and feeling to treat them.
After a difficult decision from our Premiere Judges, here are the Primary and Secondary School Grand Prix winners and other award winners. Please take a look at these wonderful videos.
Messages from the teams that were nominated for the Grand Prix. Here are the thoughts & backstories behind each video.
Hong Kong
Kowloon Tong School (Primary Section)
Message from the Team
The message of this video brings out the fact that it is important for people to look at things from different perspectives. If we can look at things beyond our own perspectives, we will be able to see what is important in the grand scheme of life. This video also takes audience on a heartwarming journey and reveals how great teachers inspire their students and influence the next generation.
U.S.A.
Prairie View Elementary School
Message from the Team
We use to think that winning was everything, but from this video it helped us to understand that people who did their best are the real winners. Whether you win or lose it's all about having fun.
Vietnam
Panatrip (6 members from 6 different schools)
Message from the Team
Happiness is not particularly in a wealthy life. It is to live in the love of your parents and family.
Brazil
Colegio Guilherme Dumont Villares
Message from the Team
With this project we wanted to show the lives of these individual athletes, the idea of superation and the power of the body. Even with deficiency we can always do more.
Germany
Secondary School Isernhagen
Message from the Team
The intention behind this film is to show how easy it can be to integrate refugees into a community. Through this film we were able to prove that cooperation between youth and refugees is possible despite language barriers. It also shows how they can learn from one another and just play football regardless of their difference. No matter who you are or where you come from, the football field is a common ground.
Thailand
Assumption Samutprakarn School
Message from the Team
Too much of anything can make you sick, working too hard, playing games too often, etc. It will make you miss all the good things that's in your life, all the real moments with real people and real relationships.
Vietnam
HNUE High School for Gifted Students
Message from the Team
People sometimes forget that the world itself communication in its own way. Sounds that are amazing but usually overlooked. If you pay attention, one will be able to hear and appreciate the beauty of the "symphony".
The students try to understand and bring awareness to the obstacles the visually impaired faces everyday.
With a new step mother and step sister, we witness a story of a little girl who becomes the black sheep of the family.
What is life like in a traveling family circus? The students in this documentary gives us an exclusive behind the scenes look.
With Fukushima still affected by the influences of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, with high spirits the students get involved with the "Charity Relay Marathon". - "Keeping the story alive"
Are you a selfie addict? The students gives us a glimpse of one girls story and how this phenomenon consumes her.
What is your "self-worth" through social media? Through real-life relationships? This video uses animation to show how people precieve there “self-worth”
A young teenage girl falls head over heels with a boy through the internet. What happenes to her when they finally meet?
The students want all the parents and adults to consider their children's feelings when introducing new members to the family. Giving them all the love and attention they need to help transition them into this new situation.
We all live in houses or flats, go to the same school every day, see the same people every day. What is life like for those who live in a mobile home, who see different places every week? What makes their life special?
During this activity, we created multiple relationships with junior high school students from Tokyo and became overwhelmed by their passion for us. We learned the importance of human relationships through activities which supports people who live in temporary housing and who were forced to evacuate due to the nuclear disaster. We would like to convey to people all over the world a message that taking action with respect, gratitude, and passion is the first step to communication.
We want to convey the message to all selfie addicts not to be too obsessed with taking the perfect picture of themselves. As this attitude will ruin their lives. Just click it, you're beautiful in everyway.
We should not focus so much on our online identities. Leave that world behind. Instead make the effort to establish strong relationships off-line.
We created this documentary on our hopes to the visually impaired in Thailand to be understood that they are able to live their lives fully. We want to inspire viewers not to give up and to push through any and all challenging situations.
The students wanted to bring awareness to the dangers of Internet friendships and relationships. Many teens use the Internet to find love, yet there are real dangers in these types of online romances. In there video "FACE TO FACE" the tagline is ..."You never know who hides behind their computer screens."
Experts from the movie industry, press and education will choose our finalists.
Jun'ichi Nakata
KWN Global Office
General Manager
Corporate Advertising Office
Advertising Department
Groupwide Brand Communications Division
Panasonic Corporation
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