Human Form

-Drama

Director: Doyeon Noh

Country: 11min 45secs

Language: Korean

Subtitle: English

Completed date: 2014

Ever since she was a child, ‘In hyung’ has been compelled to draw unusual faces. When she is much older, she visits a plastic surgeon, only to find that she cannot afford the procedure – she feels alone in the world.

Director, Writerm Producer: Doyeon Noh

Producer: Wooseok Chung

DP: Hwa Young, Son

Editor: Doyeon Noh

Cast: Si-Yeon Kim Jin-Seon Son

Film Festivals Appearance:

2014, Palm Springs International Shortfest

2014, Buchon International Fantastic Film Festival

2014, Korean Competition, Asiana International Short Film Festival

2015, Florence Korea Film Fest

2015, Reel Shorts Film Festival

2015, Asia International Competition, Short Shorts Film Festival

2015, Curated section, International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala

2015, Section Shortcuts, Le Festival du Film Coréen à Paris
 

About the filmmaker

Doyeon Noh is an independent filmmaker based in Seoul. He graduated from Seoul National University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Thereafter, he worked as an AD for Korean TV series, graphic designer, commercial director and a screenwriter. <Human Form>, his first short film in Korea, was screened at Palm Springs, AISFF and Short Shorts festivals. He second short film <Night Watcher> was screened at Mise-en-Scene film festival in Seoul.

THE SUGAR SYRUP

-Animation

Director: Abhishek Verma

Country: India

Length: 5min 05sec

Language: Hindi

Subtitle: English

Completed date: 2014

The film CHASNI deals with one of the most horrendous proliferating crime towards women known to be as Acid-Attacks. Post-attack it creates a mark in the form of Disfiguration (VIRUPAN) to the survivor, which has its traumatic effect on one being both physically and psychologically. The entire story is being conversed in the form of event & saying word poetry by one of the survivors, her post-attack experiences & the journey of facing day to day life with disfigurement. This story is entirely built on several true life occurrences & experiences of the attack survivors, showing their state of compromise in their daily lives. Film is designed in the form of 2D-Animation as major film project of IDC, IIT Bombay. Directed & animated by Abhishek Verma.

Director: Abhishek Verma

Writer: Abhishek Verma

Producer:IDC IIT Bombay

Editor: Abhishek Verma

Cast: Divya Bharadwaj

Film Festival Awards & apperances:

- Animafest Zagreb-2014 (Croatia)

- FICCI FRAMES-14 (India)

- Golden Kuker animation Fest-14 (Bulgaria)

- IDFSSK, Kerela-14 (India)

- MISAFF-2014 (Canada)

- International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino-14, Poznan

- DIGICON 2014 Award Japan (Silver Award for best Short Film)

- TASI (animation society of India)-2014 runner up film 

- Indian Film festival, Melbourne-2014 (best Short film)

- Best Student film, Filmsaaz-2014 (Aligarh Muslim University)

- Best 2D animation Film, DELHI CG Award 2014 (New Delhi)

About the filmmaker

Abhishek Verma completed his Masters in Animation & Film design from Industrial Design Center, IIT Bombay (India) in 2014. He is a graduate in Computer Science & engineering. He is currently based in Delhi working as a Motion designer & Independent film maker. He keeps special interest in story-telling, experimental narrative, illustration, cinema analysis and typography.

SHANGHAI LOVE MARKET

-Comedy

Director: Craig Rosenthal

Country: China

Length: 8min 0sec

Language: Mandarin

Subtitle: English

Completed date: 2012

Every weekend in Shanghai's famous Peoples' Park, parents hang posters to

match-make their unwed children with karmic consequences.

Director: Craig Rosenthal, Writer: Craig Rosenthal, Producer: JUDY TSENG 曾咏评/

WANG NAI YEN 王乃妍 (Singaporean), DP: Alan Yap (Singaporean),

Editor: Mike Vokins, Cast: StarringXIE JING 谢静,

Co-Starring: DAI JIAN QING 戴建清, WONG HE 王赫,

LUO ZHOU HONG 罗周红, TAN YING 谭莹

Film Festival Awards: 

- 15 Short Film Festival - Best of Show
- Int. Short Film Festival of India - Best Intl Short
- Asians on Film Awards - Best  Comedy/Musical 
- San Jose Int Film Festival - Best Comedy

- Flickerfest 2013 - Best of Australian Shorts

Film Festivals Appearances:

- Palm Springs Int. Film Festival - Selected
- Tokyo Short Shorts - Selected
- 35th AIFF New York 2012 - Selected
- LA Shorts Fest 2012 - Selected
- Rome Independent Film Festival - Finalist
- Shorts Film Festival - Best Asia/Pacific Short
- San Francisco Asian-American Fest- Selected
- Asian Short Film Awards - Top 10
- Singapore International Film Festival - Selected
- World Film Festival of Bangkok - Selected
 

About the filmmaker

Craig Rosenthal SHANGHAI LOVE MARKET is Craig’s second short film in his series on the theme of karma. The first in his series, THE TRAINEE, was shot in Singapore in 2006. Based out of LA and Beijing, Craig has both a feature version and dating program in development based on SHANGHAI LOVE MARKET.

Script

-Thriller

Director: Albert Ventura

Length: 30min 0secs

Language: Japanese

Subtitle: English

Completed date: 2011

Four people meet in a dark room for a psychological experiment. They are paid 100.000 yen to sit for 10 minutes, but it won't be as easy as it seems...

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor: Albert Ventura

DP: Paul Leeming

Cast: Takeo Nakahara, Takafumi Sasai, Takayuki Oonishi, Yuumi Gotou

Film Festival Awards:

• Sapporo International Film Festival 2011

   

   

Film Festivals Appearances:

• Asian Pacific Los Angeles Film Festival 2012

• Beijing Movie Festival 2012

• Kaohsiung Film Festival 2012

• Tateshina Kougen 2012

About the filmmaker

Albert Ventura Roldán (Barcelona 1978) has always been fascinated by Asian culture. When he was 24, he moved to Japan where he studied a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in the University of Tokyo and learned about movie directing and photography. Influenced by Japanese classic cinema and arts, he has written several short movies which have screened around the world and won many awards. Based now in Taiwan, he is writing several feature movie projects for Japan and Taiwan.

Sunshine

-Drama, Comedy

Director: Jacky Lee

Length: 15min 50secs

Language: English

Subtitle: English, Japanese

Completed date: 2013

A geeky young man prepares for his upcoming driving test by driving his father’s taxi around in the neighbourhood nightly.

Like many guys his age, he believes that a driving license will help him attract the opposite sex. His dream, or you can say nightmare, came true when he was forced to pick up a runaway teenage girl as his passenger.

Together, these two strangers embark on an unforgettable journey of magic and terror, laying the foundation of a potential friendship along the way.

Director, Writer: Jacky Lee

Producer: Andy Zeng

DP: Sng Yexiang

Editor: Jacky Lee

Cast: Linda Hao, Joshua Lim

Film Festival Awards:

• Best Sound – 5th Singapore Short Film Awards (2014)

• Silver Remi Award – 47th WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival (2014)

Film Festivals Appearances:

• Official Selection – 3rd Unofficial Google+ Film Festival (2013)

• Official Selection – Asian International Competition: Short Shorts Film Festival

  • & Asia (2014)

About the filmmaker

Jacky Lee, 31, is a Singaporean filmmaker. He graduated in 2010 from Swinburne Institute of Technology with a B.A. in Film & Television. His films are often visually vibrant with colourful characters, a catchy soundtrack and offbeat humour.

Jacky’s latest short film Sunshine was an official selection at the Unofficial Google+ Film Festival 2013 and Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2014. It was also awarded the Silver Remi Award at the 47th WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival and Best Sound at the 5th Singapore Short Film Awards.

Jacky’s love for film began at age 17 after watching Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express while in design school. The film’s raw energy and charm captivated him and opened his eyes to the wide range of possibilities of the film medium.

MADE

- Drama (NC16)

Director: Norbert Schoerner 

Country: Japan

Length: 20min

Language: Japanese, English

Subtitle:  Japanese, English

Completed date: 2014

‘Made’ follows the intriguing double life of a young Japanese woman in Tokyo. When a brief encounter with a foreigner threatens to unravel her hidden existence she does everything it takes to protect her secrets.

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DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

In Japan there is a subculture referred to as ‘cosplay’ – becoming involved in it gives people a chance to live out an alternative being through engaging in transgressive, costume-based fantasies.

What inspired me about the story of Minako is this very idea – of how a double life allows people to escape from their unexceptional daily existence. But once the various lives become more complex, an important question emerges: which is the real one? Is it a matter of choice, or of circumstance, as to which life takes over and dominates the other?

Our story’s main character Minako is exactly in this situation. She seems to long for the normalcy of a life with her new boyfriend and the comforts that come with it, but she is too anchored in her other life – her secret facade as a maid, which feeds her darker desires.

Both of the male protagonists of the film are foreigners (‘gaijin’) in Tokyo. There is a cliché that, on their first trip eastbound, many men are often excited by a formulaic idea of female Asian eroticism. Over the years during my travels to Japan I have encountered quite a few examples of both of the two male characters portrayed. The time I have spent in Tokyo as a gaijin has given me a paradoxical perspective on the subject, which is the foundation for both my visual and narrative interpretation of the story.

– Norbert Schoerner, London 2014

Film Festival Awards:

• 2014 Cannes Festival Short Film Corner

• 2014 East End Film Festival

• 2014 London Independent Film Festival

About the filmmaker

Norbert Schoerner is a German photographer and filmmaker based in London since 1989. Straddling fine art and fashion photography, Schoerner has presented his work in many different contexts from international gallery shows to iconic ad campaigns for Prada. His TV/Web commercial work include clients ranging from Shiseido, Roland Mouret, Laforet to Casio G Shock. He has also made various short films, including projects for the ICA, Showstudio and White Cube Gallery.

About the producer

Oz Thakkar is a London based filmmaker, photographer and producer who works across cinema, advertising and fashion. Challenged by the notion of ever evolving visual storytelling, Oz thrives on new technology and innovative ways to create refreshing high quality multi-platform content combined with an incomparable appreciation for film history and tradition.