Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2025 - Calling out for submissions

Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFF & ASIA), one of the biggest international short film festivals in Asia,  begins accepting submissions for the 2025 edition on Thursday, August 1, 2024.

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In addition to the Live Action, Non-Fiction and Animation competitions, in which the best films are eligible for the following year’s Academy Awards® in the Short Films category, the SSFF & ASIA will also be looking for films from Japan and abroad in a wide range of categories, including the Tokyo-themed Cinematic Tokyo category and the BRANDED SHORTS, which focuses on corporate branded films.

The SSFF & ASIA also offers a variety of other awards, including the SHIBUYA DIVERSITY AWARD for a film with a diversity theme, the Save the Earth! Minister of the Environment Award for a film about environmental issues, and the J-WAVE SOUND OF CINEMA AWARD for the unique and effective role of sound (music, songs, voices, sounds, instruments, etc.) in a film.

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Who will win the Grand Prix – George Lucas Award!?

For SSFF & ASIA 2024 held in June this year, 4,936 short films from 116 countries and regions around the world were submitted and approximately 270 were screened during the festival.

In 2004, SSFF & ASIA, became an Academy Award accredited film festival and has submitted the festival’s Grand Prix film as eligible for nomination at the Oscars the following year. In 2019, this was expanded to include the Best Short Award winners from the Live Action Competitions in the International, Asia International, and Japan categories, as well as the best short from the Non-Fiction category. In 2021, the Academy Association announced that the SSFF & ASIA would be able to submit for nomination from the Animation category for a total of five Best Short Award-winning short films that will be given a chance to possibly win an Oscar next year!

Kodansha will pay 10,000,000 JPY! Calling for short film pitches!」

The 3^rd edition of Kodansha Cinema Creators’ Lab is calling out for short film pitches with the aim of discovering new filmmakers from around the world. We will award ¥10,000,000 for creator to make short film and after the film is completed, SSFF & ASIA will submit the film to film festivals all over the world.

The submissions from a wide range of creators including not only filmmakers but also artists and screenwriters with brilliant ideas are welcome and We will announce the best pitch projects at SSFF & ASIA 2024 which will be held in June, 2025. SSFF & ASIA is accredited by the Academy Awards and one of the biggest international short film festivals in Asia.

Kodansha’s purpose is “Inspire Impossible Stories”. We are looking forward to receiving pitches from visual creators who want to work together to create an impossible story that will inspire the world and someone’s heart! ※Payment will be made in accordance with a separately concluded contract.

For the SSFF & ASIA in 2025, we are looking for to encountering many fantastic short films!

Japan’s only Branded Movie Festival

The 10th BRANDED SHORTS - Now Open for Submissions

Beginning Thursday, August 1, BRANDED SHORTS, Japan's only international branded movie competition, will begin accepting submissions for the 2025 Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, one of Asia's biggest international short film festivals and accredited by the Academy Awards.

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BRANDED SHORTS, established by the festival in 2016, is a new type of communication by companies and organizations that transcends the boundaries of "advertising" and aims to communicate their social values (services, products, and experiences) to consumers, as a form of "cinematic communication.” The festival defines Branded Movies as films that are selected and have eight perspectives; inevitability, ability to change perceptions, ability to share, message power, viewership retention, originality, timelessness, and post-viewing retention.

During the submission period, we will announce a short list that will lead to the final nomination. We will gather jurors from various industries in advertising and film for the 2024 film festival, and the best Branded Movie selection will be awarded the "Branded Shorts of the Year

The HR category supported by Indeed, established in 2022, keep calling out for Branded Movies from the perspective of human resources, and recruitment. 

Takuma Takasaki, who has served as a member of the jury for the past editions of BRANDED SHORTS, has also delivered a statement on BRANDED SHORTS, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year. We look forward to seeing BRANDED SHORTS films that challenge new possibilities in the run-up to the 2025 festival!