Jack Hughes’ ‘Deadheading’ won for best fiction, Christine Seow’s ‘Two Travelling Aunties’ won for best non-fiction, and ‘Ovary-Acting’ picked up the animation prize for directors Michelle Brøndum and Ida Melum.
Sony honored young global filmmakers at the fourth annual Future Filmmakers Awards ceremony held on Thursday night on the Hollywood studio lot. , a story about a wife determined to use all means necessary to secure her terminally ill husband’s dream allotment garden after he is given just months to live.which follows two fifty-something women trading conventional life for the open road.
The award was presented by indie producer Milissa Kazuko Douponce, who also founded Summer & Company.a stop motion animated film about a young woman stuck at her sister’s baby shower and forced to reflect on whether she wants to have children or not after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs.which centers on a long-distance romance with an older Norwegian man promising to lift a Cuban girl and her mother out of poverty, until the fantasy begins to crack. Yojiro Asai, senior general manager of the imaging marketing division atThe annual competition attracts global filmmaker entrants, with the winners chosen by a jury comprised of directors Gluck and Chadwick, Pascal Pictures’ Rachel O’Connor and animation co-director Adam Rosette.
The jury members said in a joint statement: “The winning films captivate, challenge, and resonate long after viewing. These are artists who command their craft with confidence, execute their vision without compromise, and observe the world with clarity and empathy. What distinguishes the winners, and the wider shortlist, is how far their stories reach – across borders, across cultures; across the full spectrum of human experience.
Cinema remains the universal language, and these filmmakers demonstrate that its most essential voices are rising from every corner of the globe. It’s precisely filmmakers of this caliber that the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards were created to discover and to champion. ” The prize giving also saw Innocent Yama Lamido from Nigeria win this year’s Future Format competition, which challenges filmmakers to tackle a technical brief to explore bold and innovative storytelling.
This year entrants submitted shorts created for vertical viewing, or a 9:16 aspect ratio.
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