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  ☆Academy ProgramShort Shorts Film Festival was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival for the annual Academy Awards®. This means the Grand Prix at the SSFF will be eligible for Academy Awardsｨ nomination in the short film category. This year we are presenting five Academy Awardsｨ winning and nominated shorts films in the Academy Program. ☆Australian Short ShortsThe 2006 SSFF will feature Australian short films in commemoration of the Year of Exchange between Australia and Japan. Our international program will include one Australian “Star Short” featuring Mel Gibson, and three “Maestro Short Shorts” made by acclaimed directors George Miller, P.J. Hogan and Phillip Noyce. Our national program will have three special invitation short films which symbolically link Australia and Japan.◇What are Maestro Short Shorts?Every year SSFF screens short films by famous filmmakers as “Maestro Short Shorts”. We've screened films by George Lucas, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese , Tim Burton, Johnnie To, and Sofia Coppola to name a few.※YOE Special Screening Shorts and Australian Maestro Shorts are non-competition.  ★Special Screening “Wrong Coast”“Wrong Coast” is a Showbiz news show from a different dimension! You won't stop grinning with these hilarious parodies based on films and celebrities!! Please enjoy these zany claymations by celebrity-look-alike puppets!!※Five different episodes will be screened at the beginning of each International Program. 「Wrong Coast」Official Website http://www.wrongcoast.jp  ★Women Director Special Screening“Dealbreaker” co-directed by Gwyneth PaltrowWe're honored to screen “Dealbreaker” co-directed by world famous actress, Gwyneth Paltrow. “Dealbreaker” is Gwyenth Paltrow's directorial debut and was produced as part of a campaign to raise awareness of women in film. ※"Dealbreaker" will be screened at the first screenings at the Laforet Museum Harajuku and "Best of Short Shorts ①" at the TOHO CINEMAS Roppongi Hills.  (C) 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved. One Marvelous Success Story from Hollywood! ---- “Thank You for Smoking”In 2001, at the Short Shorts Film Festival (formally known as the American Short Shorts Film Festival), one bright, young filmmaker received the Audience Award for his excellent short film, “In God We Trust”. His name was Jason Reitman and joining him in Tokyo was producer Daniel Dubiecki.Last year, the same team produced their first feature film, “Thank You for Smoking” with an all star cast including Aaron Eckhart, Rob Lowe and Katie Holmes. The film received massive public attention at the Sundance Film Festival this year. With Jason’s positive Hollywood debut, he’s on his way to more and more success. Our special Japanese premiere screening of “Thank You for Smoking” (the film will officially be released in Japan this Fall) will honor the artists’ great first feature film and also screen “In God We Trust” to show their path to success.  ★Jitae Yoo's “How Does the Blind Dream” - Special Screening and Seminar-We're honed to have a special screening of “How Does the Bind Dream”, directed by Jitae Yoo the famous actor from “Old Boy” and “Running Wild Beast”. This film hasn't been screened in Japan before and a seminar on directorial technique for short films will be held along with the screening.※“How Does the Blind Dream” will be screened on June 9 as “SPECIAL PROGRAM②”along with Korean Music Clips Short Shorts Film Festival （c） Short Shorts Film Festival 2006 . All rights reserved. |
