The Tsunami and The Cherry Blossom
-Documentary (PG)
Director: Lucy Walker
Country: Japan
Length: 40min 04secs
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English
Completed date: 2011
Survivors in the areas hardest hit by Japan's recent tsunami find the courage to revive and rebuild as cherry blossom season begins. A stunning visual poem about the ephemeral nature of life and the healing power of Japan's most beloved flower.
Film Festival Awards:
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Nominee, Best Documentary Short, The 84th Annual Academy Awards 2012
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Nominee, Emmy Award for Best Documentary, 34th Annual News &
Documentary Emmy Awards
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Nominee, Emmy Award for Best Continuing Coverage of a News Story, Long
Form, 34th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards
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Winner, Non-Fiction Short Film Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2012
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Winner, Women In Film National Geographic All Roads Award, Sundance Film
Festival 2012
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Winner, Polly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film, DC Environmental Film
Festival 2012
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Winner, Laurissilva Award for Best Film, Madeira Film Festival 2012
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Winner, Audience Award for Best Short Film, Florida Film Festival 2012
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Winner, Best Documentary, Nevada City Film Festival 2012
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Winner, Best of the Fest, Nevada City Film Festival 2012
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Winner, Audience Award for Best Film, Dominican Republic Environmental
Film Festival 2013
Film Festivals Appearances:
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Premiered at Toronto International Film Festival Documentary Conference 2011 (out of competition)
About the filmmaker
Lucy Walker is best known for directing four feature documentary films: Devil’s Playground (2002), Blindsight (2006), Waste Land (2010) and Countdown to Zero (2010). Her most recent film is this short documentary The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011), which premiered at Toronto 2011 and won the Polly Krakora Excellence in Filmmaking Award, the Women In Film National Geographic All Roads Award and the Short Film Jury Award: Non-Fiction at Sundance 2012 as well as being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.
Lucy grew up in London, England, and graduated with first class honors from Oxford before winning a Fulbright to attend NYU’s graduate film program. She was also a DJ and directed Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues, for which she was twice nominated for an Emmy.
