Best Short Awards winners of Live Action
(International /Asia International /Japan), Non-Fiction and Animation Competition
are eligible to be shortlisted for next year's Oscars®!
Cinematic Tokyo Competition, BRANDED SHORTS,
Kodansha Cinema Creators Lab are also open
SHIBUYA WARD, Japan, Aug. 1, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFF & ASIA), one of the biggest international short
film festivals in Asia, begins
accepting submissions for the 2025 edition on Thursday, August 1, 2024.
https://app.lifelogbox.com/festival/shortshorts/
In addition to the Live Action, Non-Fiction and
Animation competitions, in which the best films are eligible for
the following year's Academy Awards® in the Short Films category,
the SSFF & ASIA will also be
looking for films from Japan and
abroad in a wide range of categories, including the Tokyo-themed Cinematic Tokyo category and the
BRANDED SHORTS, which focuses on corporate branded films.
The SSFF & ASIA also offers a variety of other awards,
including the SHIBUYA DIVERSITY AWARD for a film with a diversity
theme, the Save the Earth! Minister of the Environment Award for a
film about environmental issues, and the J-WAVE SOUND OF CINEMA
AWARD for the unique and effective role of sound (music, songs,
voices, sounds, instruments, etc.) in a film.
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For SSFF &
ASIA 2024 held in June this year,
4,936 short films from 116 countries and regions around the world
were submitted and approximately 270 were screened during the
festival.
In 2004, SSFF & ASIA, became an Academy Award accredited film
festival and has submitted the festival's Grand Prix film as
eligible for nomination at the Oscars the following year. In 2019,
this was expanded to include the Best Short Award winners from the
Live Action Competitions in the International, Asia International,
and Japan categories, as well as
the best short from the Non-Fiction category. In 2021, the Academy
Association announced that the SSFF & ASIA would be able to submit for nomination
from the Animation category for a total of five Best Short
Award-winning short films that will be given a chance to possibly
win an Oscar next year!
SSFF & ASIA 2025
Competitions Guideline
■Submission Competitions: Live Action
Competition, Non-Fiction Competition, Animation Competition,
Cinematic Tokyo Competition, BRANDED SHORTS, Kodansha Cinema
Creators Lab, BOOK SHORTS Award
■ Submission period: from Tuesday,
August 1, 2024, 02:00PM
(JST).
*Submission deadlines vary by category
■For details on how to submit: See SSFF & ASIA 2025 Submission Page
https://app.lifelogbox.com/festival/shortshorts/
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