Kodansha Cinema Creators’ Lab is a visual creator support project that began accepting applications in August 2024. For the third edition of CCL, and we received 1,013 pitch submissions from Japan and abroad (Japan: 590 / Foreign: 423) during the four-month submission period which closed on November 30th.
The submissions that have passed the document screening are as announced previously.
We are now happy to announce the pitches that passed the first stage interviews that were held since as below.
『来世のせいら』緒方一智
『おっとのあし』八幡貴美
『大きな森のタオ』テトラ
『楽屋裏』古舘寛治
『Samrai Flog』栗原隼一郎
『掘る女』知多 良
*Submissions are in order of application
We will now proceed to select the award-winning pitch after holding further online interviews with those who have passed to this next stage.
Please note that we are unable to respond to individual inquiries to any aspect of the selection process.
We thank you in advance for your understanding.