Academy AwardsⓇ Accredited International Short Film Festival Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2016 Call for Entries opens on August 1 (Sat)
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFF & ASIA), the first Academy Awards® accredited film festival in Japan and one of Asia’s largest international short film festivals, will begin accepting submissions for its 2016 edition on August 1, 2015 (Sat).
The Call for Entries spans multiple competitions: Official Competition (International, Asia International, Japan), the environmentally themed Save the Earth! Competition, the cutting-edge CG Animation Competition and the Music Video Competition, which presents uniquely cinematic MVs. One Best Short Award is awarded for each of the three categories in the Official Competition, and the Grand Prix is chosen from among these Best Short Award winners. The film that wins the Grand Prix will be eligible for nomination for the annual Academy Awards® the following year.
Over 5,000 works from more than 100 different countries and regions were submitted for consideration for the 2015 edition of the festival. This festival is, and will continue to be, a gateway for filmmakers of the future.
Please access the Call for Entries page via the official festival website (www.shortshorts.org/) for further details on the submission process.
＜Submission Information＞
Please access the Call for Entries page via the official festival website for further details on the submission process
① Official Competition
The Official Competition consists of three categories: International, Asia International, Japan. A Best Short Award is awarded for each category and the Grand Prix is chosen from among the three Best Short Award winners. The Grand Prix winning short film will be eligible for nomination for the annual Academy Awards® the following year.
② Save the Earth! Competition
The “STOP! Global Warming Competition” was created in 2008 in collaboration with Team-6%, a national energy-saving campaign initiated by the Japanese Ministry of Environment. In 2013, we changed the name to “Save the Earth! Competition,” and have continued to gather excellent short films with themes relating not only to global warming, but also to various other environmental issues such as recycling, pollution, conservation and global warming.
③ CG Animation Competition
Since 2011, SSFF & ASIA has collaborated with Digital Hollywood, a leading university for IT and digital content learning, in presenting CG works at the festival. In 2012, we established the CG Animation Competition in order to showcase the very best quality full CG animated short films from around the world. We are searching out works that offer new kinds of expression that utilize the cutting edge CG techniques.
④ Music Video Competition
We will screen official music videos produced by record companies that take a cinematic approach and present
narratives from a short film perspective.
