\u30fb\u30fb\u30fbAn award for a short which has made a special contribution to the media and short film industries<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cPACALIEN\u201d<\/strong> <\/span> Romeros is an alien investigor who looks like an alpaca. \u3010Reason for Selection\u3011<\/strong> \u3010Message from Actor Takumi Saitoh\u3011<\/strong> \u3010Message from Director Toshiko Hata\u3011<\/strong> \u30fb\u30fb\u30fbSelected by audiences of each official competition \uff1c<\/b>International Competition<\/b>\uff1e<\/b><\/p>\n Get Up Kinshasa!<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n \uff1c<\/b>Asia International Competition<\/b>\uff1e<\/b><\/p>\n The Great Legacy<\/span><\/strong> \uff1c<\/b>Japan Competition<\/b>\uff1e<\/b><\/p>\n SIREN<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n \u30fb\u30fb\u30fbAwards for best actors and actresses in each official competition \uff1cInternational Competition\uff1e \u3010Reason for Selection\u3011<\/strong> \u3010Profile\u3011<\/strong> <\/p>\n \uff1cInternational Competition\uff1e \u3010Reason for Selection\u3011<\/strong> \u3010Profile\u3011 <\/strong> <\/p>\n \uff1cAsia International Competition\uff1e \u3010Reason for Selection\u3011<\/strong> \u3010Profile\u3011<\/strong> <\/p>\n \uff1cAsia International Competition\uff1e \u3010Profile\u3011<\/strong> <\/p>\n \uff1cJapan Competition\uff1e \u3010Reason for Selection\u3011<\/strong> \uff1cJapan Competition\uff1e<\/p>\n Actress : Mika Kuroki <\/strong> \u3010Reason for Selection\u3011<\/strong> \u3010Profile\u3011<\/strong> An award for the most cinematic and innovative official music videos created for artists from Japan and around the world.<\/p>\n Witch Doctor<\/span><\/strong> Official music video for De Staat. \u3010Reason for Selection\u3011<\/strong> An award for the most creative film submitted by filmmakers inspired by artists’ music.<\/p>\n far away<\/span><\/strong> A couple on a holiday reveal their true inner feelings through casual conversation with the beautiful seaside as a backdrop.<\/p>\n \u3010Reason for Selection\u3011<\/strong> Based on discussion, the festival committee decided that no submissions were suitable for Best Short Award in the Music Shorts Competition this year. However, \u201cfar away\u201d depicted sensitive feelings between a man and woman with music in a very beautiful way, and thus, the committee has given the Encouragement Award for this work.<\/p>\n The Audience and Spotlight Award winners will be screened at Brillia Short Shorts Theater in Yokohama from Sun, July 16th . <\/p>\n Brillia SHORT SHORTS THEATER Business Hours<\/span>\uff1a10:00-22:00
\nToshiko Hata \/ Japan \/ 10:41 \/ Animation \/ 2017<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.shortshorts.org\/2017\/film\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pacalien_still01.jpg\")
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\nWhen he lands on Earth, he finds his spaceship damaged and becomes disconnected with his planet.
\nHe arrives on a mountain where people wearing weird masks are waiting for him.
\nActor Takumi Saitoh voiced the main character in this puppet animation,
\nwhich premiered at Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival 2017.
\nDirector Hata\u2019s previous work \u201cSamayou Shinzou\u201d was screened at SSFF & ASIA 2012.<\/p>\n
\nThis film is voiced by Takumi Saitoh who has participated at SSFF & ASIA as an actor and director for several years. He believed in the ability and talent of the director Toshiko Hata, and decided to lend a hand in the production. In recognition of this generous support for young filmmakers, which is also one of the basic goals of SSFF & ASIA, we are honored to give the Spotlight Award to PACALIEN.\u200b<\/p>\n
\nDirector Hata\u2019s sensuous view points, great efforts and endless love for creating things led to this result. Congratulations! Thank you so much for this wonderful award. I\u2019m impressed by the attitude of
\nSSFF & ASIA, which focuses on challenging creators.<\/p>\n
\nIt is an honor to receive the Spotlight Award. I would like to thank to Mr. Tetsuya Bessho and the Committee for Short Shorts who provided the opportunity for us to share this film with a large audience. Receiving this award means a lot. Thanks to my wonderful crew and especially to Takumi Saitoh, who generously lent his talent to our little independent film. They made it possible for the film to reach this unexpectedly high level. We had originally planned “PACALIEN\u201d to be a multi-episode series, and winning this award brings us one step closer to realizing this dream. From the bottom of my heart, thank you!<\/p>\n
\nAudience Award<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\nS\u00e9bastien Maitre
\n21:00 \/ France, DR Congo \/ Drama \/ 2016
\nNo polished shoes, no school! Samuel, 10 years old, is about to discover Kin the Beautiful\u2019s way of muddling up and muddling through\u2026<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nKeun-suk Jang \/ 9:29 \/ South Korea \/ Drama \/ 2016
\nJun-Suk is drowning in debt. Jun-Suk\u2019s father (Young-Pal) left him a bank account but he went into a coma before telling him it\u2019s PIN. Jun-Suk keeps on talking to his father who\u2019s in a coma.One day Young-Pal\u2019s electro-cardiogram reacts to Jun-Suk\u2019s voice. The numbers on the electro-cardiogram seem like a PIN\u2026<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nNobuyuki Miyake \/ 16:36 \/ Japan \/ Drama \/ 2017
\nWith sirens blaring outside, Abbas breaks into the room of an old Japanese man named Toyoshige. He lifts Toyoshige onto his back and carries him out the door. As they descend the stairs, the last few days of bias and misjudgment become clear.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nBest Actor<\/b> & Actress Award<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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\nActor:<\/b><\/u> Chris Fortuna<\/b><\/u>
\n\u300eBig City\u300f <\/b>\uff08director: Jordan Bond & Lachlan Ryan \/ 9:00 \/ Australia \/ Comedy \/ 2016\uff09<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nInternational Competition: Best Actor- Chris Fortuna in \u201cBig City\u201d\u000bChris plays a taxi passenger, who in the end, runs away without paying the expensive fare. Generally, we as an audience, felt appreciation for his character, especially when he shows justice to xenophobic groups to defend his taxi driver who is Indian. The character also pulls out some childish pranks, and his performance confuses the audience as to see if he is really a nice guy or a jerk throughout the film.<\/p>\n
\nChris is an Australian stand-up comedian and actor. He has appeared on various comedy programs including Logie Award-winning television comedy series \u2018Utopia\u2019, \u2019Hamish and Andy\u2019, Comedy Channel\u2019s \u2018You\u2019re You’re Skitting Me\u2019 and sketch comedy show \u2018Kinne\u2019. Chris has also acted in a variety of films and television shows including House Husbands, Any Questions for Ben, The Heckler and Spin Out. Most recently he has performed in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Born Yesterday.<\/p>\n
\nActress :Evgenia Dodina<\/strong>
\n \u300eAnna\u300f (director: Or Sinai \/ 23:46 \/ Israel \/ Drama \/ 2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nShe plays a middle-aged single mother who, besides work, doesn’t seem to have a hobby. To satisfy her sexual desire, or the simple urge to just touch someone, she loiters around her neighborhood to find a potential man. She gives this subtle, disillusioned and disgusted look to a man (a friend, apparently), who doesn’t realize her seductive ways, along with a faint smile. At this moment, we know she steals the audience\u2019s hearts until the very end.<\/p>\n
\nEvgenia played in leading roles at the \u201cMAIAKOVSKI\u201d theatre in Moscow. It was the encounter between Evgenia Dodina and Yevgeni Arye, a teacher at the theater, that led to her decision to finally emigrate to Israel in 1990, where she started playing at “Gesher” Theatre in Tel Aviv. She joined the theater upon its establishment, has performed in lead roles in the majority of the theater’s productions and has garnered praise and enthusiastic reviews. Since 2007, Evgenia has been an actress at the National Theatre “Habima.”<\/p>\n
\nActor : Seung-il Hong<\/strong>
\n \u300eHitchhiker\u300f (director: Jero Yun \/ 20:00 \/ South Korea \/ Comedy \/ 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nA North Korean defector gives an unusual request to a cop who is detaining him in a cell; “Wanna drink with me?”. So he does. He plays a gentle cop who seems to understand the pain of the defector. Through his acting, we felt the absurdity of being tossed by history, realizing that we are all human beings and we are all the same people, and we learn the importance of protecting the “dignity” of others.<\/p>\n
\n2017 \u3000Silent Witness by Jung Ji-woo
\n2016 \u3000The age of shadows by Kim Jee-woon
\nThe hunt by Cheon Jin-woo
\n2014 \u3000Alive by Park Jeong-beom
\n2008 \u3000Breathless by Yang Ik-joon<\/p>\n
\nActress : Pan Ruo Yao <\/strong>
\n\u300eSeed\u300f(director: Alvin Lee \/ 16:25 \/ China \/ Drama \/ 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>
\n\u3010Reason for Selection\u3011<\/strong>
\nShe plays a mother who donates the heart of her deceased child to another boy. Her character expresses grief and hope, especially in the scene when she listens to the boy’s heartbeat. She conveys both sorrow and the pleasure of “reuniting” with her deceased child, and we, as the audience, can feel healed with the boy’s kind gesture.<\/p>\n
\nPAN RUO YAO is a Chinese actress based in Beijing, China. She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy Department of Acting with a Masters Degree in Film Acting. With her dedicated passion for acting, she even went to schools like Roma Film Academy, Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts to broaden her knowledge.
\nShe was awarded the Best Actress Award in the 34th Vgik International Student Festival, Russia for her outstanding performance in the theatre play, “Waiting for Godot.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nActor : Tomoji Yamashiro
\n\u300eborn,bone,boon.\u300f <\/strong>\uff08director: Gori \/ 25:00 \/ Japan \/ Comedy \/ 2016\uff09<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nA hot-headed, bad mouthing guy who actually has a pure, gentle side is played by Tomoji dynamically and with finesse. Through his strong, fearless performance, he lends credence to the relatively unknown tradition of \u201cbone washing,\u201d and to the importance of respect towards ancestors in Japanese family life.
\n\u3010Profile\u3011<\/strong>
\nTomoji Yamashiro was born in 1971. He is a comedian based in Okinawa and is also the President of his own talent agency \u201cFEC Office.\u201d He is a TV and radio personality in addition to being an actor, and has been in numerous productions & programs.<\/p>\n
\n\u300eApril Fish\u300f(director: Kazutomo Ogata & Eiichi Takahashi \/ 20:34 \/ Japan \/ Comedy \/ 2016\uff09<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMika plays a call girl who is asked to suddenly transform from \u201cqueen\u201d call girl to the younger sister of her client in a “one act\u201d story. She shows an astonishing versatility especially since this is her acting debut in cinema! She gives off a distinct aura, drawing in the audience to her world, and makes us look forward to her next acting role.<\/p>\n
\nMika was born in Tokyo and decided to be an actress in 2015 while working as an office lady. \u201cApril Fish\u201d is her first film starring as an actress.<\/p>\n
\nMusic Video Competition Best Short Award<\/span><\/h2>\n
\nFloris Kaayk & Studio Smack
\n2:58 \/ Netherlands \/ Music Video \/2015
\nArtist : De Staat
\nMusic : Witch Doctor<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWith a mesmerizing performance in an ash-grey environment, abundant special effects, steroids and spectacular mass choreography.<\/p>\n
\nThe video has a strong and addictive quality. With a powerful style, it illustrates that visual storytelling has just as much impact as a traditional narrative-driven video when depicting lyrics.<\/p>\n
\nMusic Shorts Competition\u3000Encouragement Award<\/span><\/h2>\n
\nYuho Ishibashi \/ 10:00 \/ Japan \/ Music Short \/ 2017
\nMusic\uff1a “Sekka” by miimu<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWith a distinct visual style and very little dialogue, the film shows the conflicting emotions and the truth lying behind the heart of the main character in a very stylish way. This short brilliantly picks up on the emotions of the original song while falling just short of award-winning levels.<\/p>\n
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