To celebrate the festivals’ milestone years, we will present four deluxe anniversary programs!

In celebration of our milestone year, we're proud to present the "Anniversary Program." Specially selected shorts featuring world famous directors and actors will be screened in programs 1 and 2. A film made by Academy Award-winning “Life of Pi” director Ang Lee whilst he was at NYU will screen alongside “The Wholly Family”, the latest short by “Twelve Monkeys” director Terry Gilliam, and a short by Shia LaBeouf, famed for the "Transformers" series. In addition to this, we will screen two of George Lucas’s early shorts that we introduced in our inaugural festival. In program 3, films carefully selected from amongst Grand Prix and Audience Award winners from the past years will screen beside each other. From the 1999 American Short award-winning film “Puppies for Sale” (starring Jack Lemmon) to the more recent 2011 Grand Prix winner “It’s me. Helmut”, this is a program that allows you to revel in the festival's history to date. For program 4, the staff of SSFF&ASIA has selected films from the festival’s 15-year span to present in one select line up. The staff struggled at great length to choose from amongst the masses of films, producing a program that gives you another chance to catch films expressing the festival's abundant variety.