On March 2, the 30th Tokyo Video Festival (TVF2008) announced its Grand Prize winners at a ceremony in Yokohama, Japan. Sponsored by Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC), the festival attracted 2,010 entries from 53 countries and regions. 1,260 were from around the world and 750 from Japan. Entrants ranged widely in age from 9 to 91 with the greatest number, 52% of all entries, coming from people in their twenties.
The judges selected a total of 100 prize-winning entries, of which 70 were designated as Selected Works and 30 were chosen to receive Excellence Awards. Of these, two works*, "An Assertion from a Modern 21-Year-Old Woman" and "The Last Chapter", received the Video Grand Prize and "Opportunities to Study Are Disappearing - From an Actual Scene of a Night School -" received the JVC Grand Prize.

* The contest rules originally called for one Video Grand Prize and one JVC Grand Prize. This year, however, two entries succeeded in creating a unique world within each work, and in the final round the judges decided to award the same Video Grand Prize to two entries.

It is noteworthy that for the last four years in a row, beginning with the 27th festival, the Video Grand Prize winners have all been women in their 20s. It is apparent that women's unique sensibility and free thinking has bloomed in the field of video expression, and expanded the stage for new creations.