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WELgee | Ideathon 2024 after movie2024.06 | Refugees / After movie
This project is the documentary film of “Ideathon 2024,” held to coincide with World Refugee Day.
In a documentary style, it captures about 50 refugees and business leaders from many industries coming together to develop business ideas for solving human rights issues.
Background
The ideathon, held on June 19, 2024, for World Refugee Day, brought together 12 refugees and businesspeople from about 30 companies.
Using eight types of business as subjects, they discussed new business concepts from the perspective of proactive human rights, producing one idea after another that could be used in the real world.
The event was also broadcast on TV Tokyo's “WBS (World Business Satellite)” and drew a lot of attention.
Approach
- Same-day editing: To release it for World Refugee Day, the film was completed and released the day after the event.
- Interview-based editing: Conveying the atmosphere through the real voices of refugees and business leaders.
- Direction that brings out naturalness: Carefully capturing companies and refugees interacting naturally, making a film that communicates rather than an image film.
Results and impact
- Released the film the day after the event, sharing information with speed.
- Attention from major media, including TV Tokyo's “WBS (World Business Satellite).”
- The film was used in many places, including the ideathon's report meeting and events introducing WELgee.
Client's voice
Even without sharing specific shots or an image of the deliverable, he made a film closer to our expectations than we imagined.
Despite a very tight deadline, he worked carefully and quickly, and our staff rated it highly, saying, “This video really conveys what the event was about.”
In the same week as the event, we were already using it at our next event.
We are truly grateful that he responded with such heartfelt work under limited conditions.
We are very satisfied. Thank you so much!
Looking ahead
Our representative, Narita, registered as a pro-bono member of WELgee in January 2024.
We will continue to be involved in creative work that conveys the voices of refugees through film.
- Client
- Certified NPO WELgee
- Event
- World Refugee Day Ideathon 2024 Thinking seriously about “business and human rights”June 19, 2024, about 50 businesspeople from about 30 companies, and 12 refugees
- Released
- June 21, 2024 YouTube (WELgee official channel) · 3:32
- Role
- Photography and video editing
Timeline
How it came together
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2024.01
Becoming a pro-bono member of WELgee
Wanting to convey the voices of refugees through film, I began working with them pro bono.
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2024.06.19
World Refugee Day Ideathon 2024
A day of developing business ideas from the perspective of proactive human rights, using eight types of business as subjects. Ideas such as “a cosmetics box for use in disasters” and “a mini VR amusement park where anyone can enjoy something out of the ordinary” were born. Businesspeople said, “I noticed my own biases and was able to update my values,” and refugees said, “It was the best social event I've taken part in in Japan.” It was broadcast on TV Tokyo's “WBS” that same day.
The participants 
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2024.06.20 — 06.21
First cut the next day, released two days later
Editing
Without being able to share an image of the shots in advance, I exported the first cut by noon the next day, and after revisions it was released two days later. Within the same week, it was already being used at WELgee's next event.
Credits
- Organizer
- Certified NPO WELgee
- Photography and video editing
- Narita Jun (WAVE CREATIVE Inc.)
- Video filming
- 桐原 侑希 (KIRIN Inc.)
From the credits in the YouTube description.
Links
Client's Voice
Refugees' perspectives, shared with society through a same-day documentary.
Even without sharing specific shots, he imagined and made a video close to our expectations. And he gladly accepted a very short deadline.
Our staff rated it highly as “a video that conveys what the event was about,” and we used it right away at an event that same week. He worked carefully within a limited budget and deadline, and we are very satisfied.
林 将平 | Certified NPO WELgee · ★★★★★ 5.0
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