Date: Thursday, May 29 – Tuesday, June 10, 2025, ONLINE: Thursday, April 24 – Sunday, June 30, 2025

Creator Meetup Project

SSFF & ASIA Creator Meetup Project – Info

Creating opportunities for creators and companies to meet and seize new business opportunities!

This project, which will be held in the SSFF & ASIA 2025, will provide a place for business matching between creators gathered at the film festival, film festival sponsors, participating and relating companies. This project will be held with the aim of creating new businesses and initiatives to energize the industry.

It will be a perfect environment for meaningful and productive communication and business opportunities with companies and creators with strong interest in the film industry. We will also post a list of participating companies on the SSFF & ASIA 2025 website.

Creator Meetup Lounge – Info

Creator Meetup Lounge is a space prepared to foster interaction, information exchange, and the planting of seeds for new projects among short film fans, directors, and companies that support visual culture visiting the film festival. Booths will showcase digital video technologies—including the latest in AI—branded documentary production teams, and individual film project pitches. Additional booths will be announced and updated on this website as they are confirmed.

Outline

Venue 1

Venue
Schedule
May 28, 2025 (Wed) 11:00 AM – 9:30 PM
May 29 (Thu) 11:00 AM – 9:30 PM
May 30 (Fri) 11:00 AM – 8:30 PM
May 31 (Sat) 11:00 AM – 7:30 PM
June 1 (Sun) 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Entry fee
Free
Ticket information
No registration required; free entry and exit

Venue 2

Venue
Schedule
June 3, 2025 (Tue) 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM
June 4 (Wed) 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Entry fee
Only those who have purchased tickets for the Branded Shorts event on 6/3 may attend.
On 6/4, admission is free.
*Please note that a separate ticket is required to attend the ceremony.ee
Ticket information
No registration required; free entry and exit

List of participants

The list grows…

*In alphabetical order

NFFT2025_AW Neo-Heritage

NFFT2025_AW Neo-Heritage

NFFT ‘New Future AI Fashion Technology’ is an AI fashion video event that started in 2022. This is its 9th exhibition. Experience the evolution of cutting-edge generative AI technology by 30 AI creators active on the global stage.

Participating area
TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY THE LINKPILLAR 1 SOUTH B2 Room 5,6

Documentary4 inc.

Documentary4 inc.

We are a video production company specializing in documentaries for advertising and film.
Using documentary techniques, we visualize the stories and challenges behind brands.
Through branding videos and purpose-driven films, we deliver powerful messages that resonate with viewers and provide content that enhances the value of companies and brands.

Participating area
AKASAKA INTERCITY CONFERENCE CENTER

TECH BEAT Shizuoka

TECH BEAT Shizuoka

TECH BEAT Shizuoka is a collaborative project led by Shizuoka Prefectural Government, Shizuoka Bank, and local industrial organizations, aimed at accelerating local industries’ transformation for the future. Through business matching events and seminars, we promote co-creation between local companies and startups, support local companies in solving issues, and encourage the participation of the next generation and local startups.

Participating area
AKASAKA INTERCITY CONFERENCE CENTER

BUNRI CINEMA – Sayama de Cinema vol.9

BUNRI CINEMA – Sayama de Cinema vol.9

As part of BUNRI CINEMA’s activities, we are hosting a film screening event titled “Sayama de Cinema” as an art project, inspired by the fact that there is no movie theater in Sayama City. The aim is to foster civic pride through this initiative.

Drawing on our 15 years of experience with student internships at the Tokyo International Film Festival, we continue to value the connection between the community and cinema.

Participating area
TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY THE LINKPILLAR 1 SOUTH B2 Room 5,6

ONE MEDIA

ONE MEDIA

ONE MEDIA collaborates with a wide variety of creators to develop advertising and communication campaigns utilizing social media. Two of its projects won category awards at the “TikTok for Business Japan Agency Awards 2024,” and two other projects were selected as finalists in the “YouTube Works Awards Japan 2024.

Participating area
AKASAKA INTERCITY CONFERENCE CENTER

Shimada City

Shimada City

The city that loves green tea more than anywhere else on Earth – Shimada City” is located in central Shizuoka Prefecture. The city promotes “green tea-ization” by incorporating the color green—symbolic of green tea—into various aspects of daily life, such as food, merchandise, and even mailboxes.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its municipal incorporation, Shimada City is planning a short film screening event featuring Tetsuya Bessho on November 30 of this year.

Participating area
TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY THE LINKPILLAR 1 SOUTH B2 Room 5,6

NIPPON STEEL KOWA REAL ESTATE CO.,LTD

NIPPON STEEL KOWA REAL ESTATE CO.,LTD

Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate is a general developer with a real estate leasing business that develops and leases office buildings, such as the Intercity series of large-scale urban development projects and the Bizcore series of medium-scale high-grade office buildings in prime areas in central Tokyo, as well as high-end rental condominiums for foreigners such as the Homat series. Our core businesses also include condominium sales such as the Livio series of condominiums, condominium renovation, and urban redevelopment.

Participating area
AKASAKA INTERCITY CONFERENCE CENTER

Digital Hollywood Co., Ltd.

Digital Hollywood Co., Ltd.

Digital Hollywood, a specialized school, was established in 1994 and simultaneously opened its doors. After that, opened Japan’s first corporate graduate school followed by a four-year university the following year (both approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology). Other online schools, entrepreneur/engineer training schools, etc. Celebrating its 30th anniversary in October 2024.

Participating area
TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY THE LINKPILLAR 1 SOUTH B2 Room 5,6

List of participating creators

*In alphabetical order

Kimura Hiroaki

Kimura Hiroaki

Specializes in historical films that recreate Japanese culture from the Heian (9th–12th c.) to Momoyama (16th c.) periods with accurate costumes, behavior, and language.

Participating area
TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY THE LINKPILLAR 1 SOUTH B2 Room 5,6

Hitomi Nakae

Hitomi Nakae

「Knowledge Of Wife」 Production Committee
Oze and Nakae, classmates from film school, have long chased the dream of one day making a movie together—Oze as director, Nakae as screenwriter. The genre they chose was a period drama. That’s where their struggle began. Nakae, who didn’t even know the first thing about period dramas, started by studying history. Twenty years have passed since then. Now, fully prepared, he is joining the project to finally bring 「Knowledge Of Wife」 to the screen.

Participating area
TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY THE LINKPILLAR 1 SOUTH B2 Room 5,6

Sponsors

KODANSHA Ltd.

NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

CyberAgent, Inc.

Milbon Co., Ltd.

Hoppy Beverage co.

Digital Hollywood Co., Ltd.

NIPPON STEEL KOWA REAL ESTATE CO.,LTD.

CRG Co.,Ltd.

The JIKEI COM Group of Colleges

Festival Partner

Little Universe OKINAWA produced by Aim Universe

Event Partner

TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY

Creative Partner

TYO Inc.

Japan Cultural Expo 2.0

Media Partners

J-WAVE, Inc.

CONDÉ NAST JAPAN

TOKYO HEADLINE

Media Supporters

cinemacafe.net

Kinema Junposha., Ltd

ORICON NEWS

English Media Supporter

Kyodo News Plus

Festival Supporters

MORI Building

War and the Power To Live Program Special Support

International Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC)

Venue Supporter

NTT Urban Development Corporation

Tokyo Tokyo Festival