Kumasaka takes TPG prize

TOKYO (TR) – Japanese writer-director Izuru Kumasaka was on Thursday awarded the Tokyo Project Gathering (TPG) award for his work “Secrets On The Table” — the capper to the four-day market (Oct 19-22) that features new film projects and is affiliated with the Tokyo International Film Festival.

“Secrets” is a family drama about a girl and her widowed father.

Kumasaka, whose first pic “Asyl: Park and Love Hotel” won the best first feature award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007, received $20,000 worth of post-production services from Technicolor (Thailand).

TPG this year offered a slimmed down lineup of 25 projects versus 34 from a year ago in spite of accepting 50 more submissions. Notable entries included helmer Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Ship Is Yet to Come” and “Six Suspects,” featuring the writing tandem of Vikas Swarup (“Slumdog Millionaire”) and John Hodge (“Trainspotting”). (C.J.)

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