Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia is an Academy Awards® accredited festival where the winner of the Best Short awards in the Official Competition, as well as the Non-Fiction Competition, will be eligible for nomination in the short film categories of the Academy Awards® the following year. The festival was founded in 1999 as The Short Shorts Film Festival (SSFF), and since 2004, SSFF acquired a program specialized in Asian short films and established Short Shorts Film Festival Asia with the support of the Governor of Tokyo. Now, the combination of the two festivals take place annually in Tokyo as Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, one of the largest short film festivals in Asia.
Awards & Prizes
INTERNATIONAL, ASIA INTERNATIONAL AND JAPAN COMPETITION
Best Short Award　600,000 Yen (approx. US$6,000)
NON-FICTION COMPETITION
Best Short Award 　600,000 Yen
CG ANIMATION COMPETITION
Best Short Award 　600,000 Yen
CINEMATIC TOKYO COMPETITION
Best Short Award 　1,000,000 Yen
BRANDED SHORT
Branded Shorts of the Year