SSFF & ASIA 2021 Announcing the Jurors of the CG ANIMATION COMPETITION

Designer and artist Tomoe Shinohara, Film director Ken Ochiai, and Digital Hollywood University President, Doctor of Engineering, Tomoyuki Sugiyama 

select the Best Short Award out of 733 submissions from 73 countries & regions around the world.

30 selected short films will be screened, including the 93rd Academy Award for Animated Short Film nominated “YES-PEOPLE.”

The Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2021 (SSFF & ASIA), Asia’s one of the biggest international short film festivals along with Digital Hollywood Co., Ltd. (head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Takeshi Yoshimura, President: Tomoyuki Sugiyama), which operates IT & digital content schools, universities, & graduate schools will present the CG Animation Competition.

This year the CG Animation Competition received 733 submissions from 73 countries & regions around the world. This year, three jurors will select the Best Short Award; Tomoe Shinohara (designer and artist), Ken Ochiai (film director, associate professor at Digital Hollywood University), and Tomoyuki Sugiyama (President and Doctor of Engineering, Digital Hollywood University).

In addition to the 28 nominated shorts, the CG Animation Program including the 93rd Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film winning “YES-PEOPLE,” and the Digital Frontier Grand Prix 2021 Best CG Animation Award winning short film “Adarnia: A Sci-fi Short Film as a Special Invitation short,” will start screening on Friday, June 11 at online and Tokyo Venue.

Among the nominated shorts, there were themes of current social issues such as the environmental destruction of our Earth, racial issues and the pandemic, shut-ins and sustainability and the future of space and robots. As only CG animation can depict, the world and beyond now and in the future.

For further detail, please checkout the SSFF & ASIA 2021 CG Competition page!

CG Competition page