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Judges for SSFF & ASIA 2024 competition have been announced

May 14, 2024
Panos Kotzathanasis
SSFF & ASIA Juries will judge this year’s short films from a variety of perspectives, including filmmakers, actors, and cultural figures.

Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFF & ASIA) 2024, an Academy Awards® accredited and one of the largest international short film festivals in Asia and originating in Japan, is pleased to announce the official jury members for the festival. The best short films in each category and section that will be nominated for the Academy Awards® in the following year.

In addition to the festival directors and programmers who have been involved in the selection process at international film festivals, the jury will judge this year’s short films from a variety of perspectives, including filmmakers, actors, and cultural figures.

■Live Action Competition/International Category Judges

33 nominated films among 2104 submissions form 94 countries and regions

■Non-Fiction Competition Judges：

15 nominated films among 313 submissions form 55 countries and regions
Hiromi Nagasaku(Actor)/(Documentary Film Director)/Tim Redford(Co-Director of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival)

■Live Action Competition/Asia International Category Judges：

25 nominated films among 722 submissions from 36 countries and regions

■Live Action Competition/Japan Category Judges：

Out of 241 submissions, 21 nominated films were screened

Sharon Badal (Festival Programmer, Distinguished Lecturer at NYU Tisch School of the Arts)/Hiroshi Fujioka　(Actor, Martial Artist)/Katsuhide Motoki(Film Director, President, Directors Guild of Japan)

■Animation Competition Judges：

23 nominated films among 464 submissions from 57 countries and regions

Tom Kawada(Developer / Eldest son of AR Three Brothers)/ShiShi Yamazaki (Artist)/Tomoyuki Sugiyama(President of Digital Hollywood University / Doctor of Engineering)

Each winning film will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on Monday, June 17, 2024.

The International, Asia International, and Japan categories of the Live Action Competition, as well as the Best Animation and Best Non-Fiction categories, will be announced at the Awards Ceremony. The George Lucas Award (Grand Prix) will be presented by Cunard with an extra prize of a cruise on the Queen Elizabeth.

SSFF & ASIA 2024 Live Action Competition/International Category Non-Fiction Competition Judges
SSFF & ASIA 2024 Live Action Competition/Asia International Category Live Action Competition/Japan Category Judges
SSFF & ASIA 2024 Animation Competition Judges

【Short Shorts Film Festival ＆ Asia 2024 Outline】

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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