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Pia Film Awards – Winners 2015

October 2, 2015
Panos Kotzathanasis

This year’s PIA Film Festival (PFF) was held from 12 to 24 September at the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, in Tokyo, with the award-winning ceremony taking place on the last day. The jury was comprised from , , (directors), Kazushige Abe (author) and (producer). The winners were:

Grand Prize: A Road ()
Runner-up Award: Moonlight Honeymoona(Taro Tominaga)
Special Jury Prize: The Lie and the Taint (Yuko Igari), Goron,Batan,Q (Kan Yamamoto), I’m an Artist(Raita Yabushita)
Entertainment Award (Horipro prize): Deep tastes (Kohei Nakayama)
Audience Award: The Name of the Whale (Fumito Fujikawa)
Cinema Fan Award (Pia Eiga Seikatsu prize): Deep tastes (Kohei Nakayama)
Gemstone Award (Nikkatsu prize): Deep tastes (Kohei Nakayama)
Βραβείο P.E.N Club: The Name of the Whale (Fumito Fujikawa)

A road
Moonlight Honeymoon
The Lie and the Taint
Goron,Batan,Q
I’m an Artist
deep tastes
The Name of the Whale
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Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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