SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2015

It’s our 5^th year to hold CG Animation Program, collaborating with Digital Hollywood Co., LTD!
We screened 12 shorts this year, and three directors had greeted the audience.

Director Yuta Sukegawa from “Drifting Cloud”,
Director Hikari Miura from “Youth is Sudden…”, and
Director Hiroaki Matsumoto from “NUE”, which won a Digital Frontier Grand Prix 2015 Best CG Animation Award.

Director Sukegawa is now active both inside and outside of Japan.
His short “The Light”, which was screened in our festival 4 years ago, won an award in a world film festival, and played in several foreign countries.

To the question, what he thinks is the reason his shorts gets attention from other countries, he answered; “I give emotions to the objects which usually don’t have feelings. I describe simple feelings that everyone has, and I think that what attracts people from all around the world”.

The short “Drifting Cloud”, which was screened today, describes a pure feeling of the cloud, that it is having loneliness, sure makes people feel gentle and kind.

And Director Miura, a student of the university, brought Manga and CG together.

The message that she wanted to tell through the short is….
“Things do not go as good as Manga!”
(In Japanese Manga, usually, girls and boys get fall in love so easily).

To answer a question from the audience, “what’s fascinating about making a CG short?”, she said, “like I did in this short, I can describe frog’s detailed motions, which is unable to do in filming”.

Director Matsumoto, who graduated the same university as Director Miura, unlike the wildness of “NUE”, was a very gentle person.

To the question of what kinds of software he uses to make a short, he answered in details.

We had full reservations in this programs, and I could feel that the audience was so willing to see the CG shorts, and listen to the CG-making process.