{"id":16242,"date":"2025-03-18T02:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/?post_type=news_en&#038;p=16242"},"modified":"2025-03-18T02:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:26:12","slug":"ssff-asia-2025-global-spotlight-award-shortlist-vol-3-is-announced","status":"publish","type":"news_en","link":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/news_en\/creators\/ssff-asia-2025-global-spotlight-award-shortlist-vol-3-is-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"SSFF &#038; ASIA 2025 Global Spotlight Award Shortlist Vol.3 is announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SSFF-ASIA-2025-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SSFF-ASIA-2025-1-1.jpg 670w, https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SSFF-ASIA-2025-1-1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>SSFF &amp; ASIA 2025 annonced the shortlist vol. 3 for this year\u2019s Global Spotlight Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Award is given to a work outside Japan which conveys the present of the world in a changing world and opens up new possibilities for a filmmaker and supports short films that unites the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, Travon Free\u2019s 2020 Black Lives Matter themed, Oscar(R) winning short film \u201cTwo Distant Strangers\u201d, in 2022, NFT animation \u201cRoborovski\u201d (Australia) by Tilda Kobham-Harvey and Dev Petal (\u201cHotel Mumbai\u201d) , and in 2023, Korean star Seo In Guk\u2019s directorial short film \u201cTrap by Seo In Guk\u201d had been selected as the Global Spotlight Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2024, Music Drama by Korean pop star Stray Kids \u201cStray Kids \uff1c\u6a02-STAR\uff1e SKZFLIX\u201d won the award and showed high attention to the Korean music short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shortlist will be announced monthly from and the final award will be announced in the SSFF &amp; ASIA 2025 in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the 3rd shortlist for the Globasl Spotlight Award 2025, Following 2 short films are nominated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Boy &amp; The Octopus&#8221; , a fantasy short film produced by Walt Disney Company and directed by Oscar winning director Taika Waititi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In October&#8221;, a music short film in which immensely popular Korean trot singer Lim Young Woong starred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">  <strong>\u2605&#8221;The Boy &amp; The Octopus&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Disney Holiday Short: The Boy &amp; The Octopus\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/clgyncrbyDg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Director\uff1aTaika Waititi \/ U.S.A \/ 4min. \/ 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follows the journey of a child who discovers a curious octopus has attached to his head during a seaside vacation. After returning home, the boy forms a true friendship with the octopus by introducing his new companion to his life on land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>\u2605&#8221;In October&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\uc784\uc601\uc6c5 \uc8fc\uc5f0 \uc601\ud654 In October(\uc778 \uc545\ud1a0\ubc84) \uc608\uace0\ud3b8 | \ucfe0\ud50c\uc5d0\uc11c \ub9cc\ub098\uc694 | \ucfe0\ud321\ud50c\ub808\uc774 | \ucfe0\ud321\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XkUhSI1yAN0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Director : Ojun Kwon \/ Korea \/ 30min. \/ 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In October&#8221; tells the story of a &#8220;hero&#8221; who lives alone with his only friend &#8220;Sewol-i&#8221; in a world devastated by the spread of an unidentified epidemic, and is a 31-minute short film that is a full version of Lim Young-woong&#8217;s music video that has exceeded 6 million views and a new aspect of actor Lim Young-woong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16243,"parent":0,"template":"","e_news_cat":[550,641,549],"class_list":["post-16242","news_en","type-news_en","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","e_news_cat-creators","e_news_cat-filmfestival","e_news_cat-project"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_en\/16242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_en"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news_en"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"e_news_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/e_news_cat?post=16242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}