Make a Short Film About Tokyo and Get Paid $10,000

Have a great short film idea about Tokyo? If so, then here’s your chance to get paid $10,000.

The Shorts Shorts Film Festival & Asia and the Cinematic Tokyo Competition is calling for films of any genre that shows the many attractions that Tokyo has to offer in an effort to popularize the Tokyo Brand, a tourism initiative to promote business enterprises in the Tokyo city. The competition winner will receive 1,000,000 JPY, which is roughly the equivalent of $10,000 USD.

Producers behind the competition are not only looking for films that take place in Tokyo, but also for films that depict memories of Tokyo, experiences of Tokyo, or even shops in overseas locations that offer an experience of Tokyo. As such you are free to use stock footage from this resource and you can find more info on shooting in Tokyo here. 

You can also enter films into the Official Competitions, the environmentally themed Save the Earth! Competition, the Music Video Competition, and the cutting-edge CG Animation Competition. A Best Short Award is awarded for each of the three categories in the Official Competition, and the Grand Prix is chosen from among these winners.

The film that wins the Grand Prix will be eligible for nomination at the annual Academy Awards® in the U.S.A. the following year. It’s worth noting that SSFF & ASIA winning shorts have quite a track record of winning Academy Awards as well. The 2016 Grand Prix winner, Sing by Kristóf Deák and Anna Udvardy, received the Oscar in 2017.

The submission window is open until January 31, 2018 and you can submit at Withoutabox, FilmFreeway or Shortfilmdepot.

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