Viddsee Juree Awards (‘Juree’) is an annual industry pick award celebrating best short films from Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines.
In each edition, the countries’ brightest talents and storytellers submit their films to a panel of international judges, who will then handpick the winning entries. Viddsee amplifies the out-of-competition entries and finalists to our audience communities.
Juree is part of Viddsee’s commitment to grow a network of prestigious storytellers, to support local film communities, and to inspire a new generation of storytellers across Asia.
Prizes
Viddsee Film Production Grant
Viddsee will present the Gold winner a grand prize of IDR40,000,000 as a Production Grant for the making of a short film. Viddsee will also offer the Silver winner IDR20,000,000 as a Production Grant. Both filmmakers will get to work closely with Viddsee Studios from idea creation to completion and distribution of this project on Viddsee's platform. The project is slated to complete within 12 months from the awarding date.
A 5-day Global Film & TV Program in LA
Motion Picture Association will offer the Gold winner a 5-day Global Film & TV Program in Los Angeles. The 5-day course includes a series of meetings, lectures and film events with production companies, agents, managers, entertainment lawyers, unions, guilds and film studios in Los Angeles, designed to provide an exclusive and informative introduction to the Hollywood film and television industry. The course will include a visit to the American Film Market, opportunities to present and pitch your projects to industry professionals, and network with other filmmakers from around the world. The Program will take place in late October/early November 2019.
Digital Cinema Camera + Lens Equipment Package Loan
The Gold winner will receive a 14-day loan for RED Digital Cinema camera equipment with a 14-day loan of ZEISS CP.3 Lenses - 5-Lens Set. The total equipment value is worth US$46,600. The Silver winner will receive a 14-day loan of RED Digital Cinema camera equipment with a 14-day loan of ZEISS Light Weight Zoom LWZ.3 21-100mm. The total equipment value is worth US$34,500. The validity period of the prizes above is 2 years from the Awarding Night.Camera Support & Accessories Package Loan
Vitec will provide the Gold winner a 14-day loan for Sachtler tripod system and Litepanels LED products worth US$8,000. Vitec will provide the Silver winner a 14-day loan for Sachtler tripod system and Litepanels LED products worth US$5,000. The validity period of the prizes above is 2 years from the Awarding Night.Creative Cloud Subscriptions
Adobe will offer 10 finalist filmmakers a 12-month Creative Cloud All Apps subscription worth US$560 each.
Judges
Jongsuk Thomas Nam
Jongsuk Thomas Nam Born in Seoul, Korea in 1968, Thomas immigrated to USA in 1981 and graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) with BA in Communication Arts (Radio, TV & Film). Thomas returned to Korea in 1995 and joined Busan Int’l Film Festival (BIFF)as Kim Ki-young Retrospective curator in 1997. Then he joined Bucheon Int’l Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) in 2007. Thomas is currently the managing director of Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF, 2008-now), a key film industry program of BIFAN, and the programmer of English-language territories (2016-now).
Thomas has served as a jury/speaker at numerous film festivals/conferences, including Sitges, Spain;Berlin, Germany; Hawaii, USA; Warsaw, Poland; Vesoul, France; TIFFCOM- Tokyo, Japan; Yubari, Japan; Fantastic Fest/Market-Austin, USA; Toronto Reel Asian, Canada; IFX-Philippines, Haugesund, Norway; EARS in Helsinki, Finland; Industry@Tallinn, Estonia; ScreenSingapore, FEFF Udine, Italy, and Ventana Sur/Blood Window-Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Currently Thomas is also the curator of After Dark program at Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, India; project advisor at Sitges Film Festival of Catalonia’s Pitchbox, Spain; project selection committee member at Focus Asia-FEFF, Udine, Italy; the project advisor at Blood Window @Ventana Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and the main programmer of Scream Asia Film Festival in Singapore.
Kamila Andini
Kamila Andini had joined many film production workshop since high school. Graduate from Faculty of Sociology and Media Arts, Deakin University (Melbourne, Australia). Her 1st feature-length film "The Mirror Never Lies" won FIPRESCI award from The International Federation Film Critics, Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2012. She also directs a few short film focus on women issue. (Following Diana - 2015, Memoria - 2016). Her 2nd feature-length film The Seen and Unseen, is part of Hubert Bals Fund, Script Development 2011 and Asia Pacific Screen Awards Children Film Fund, Script Development 2012, winner of International Jury Grand Prix, Best feature Berlinale Generation Kplus 2018. This year Dini back to Berlinale as International Juries for Generation section.
Her concern of social culture diversity, gender equity, and environmental issue lead her passion to make films with a distinctive perspective of telling a story. While directing her films with Fourcolours Films, Kamila Andini also a lecturer in Jogja Film Academy.
Monster Jimenez
Monster Jimenez is an award-winning writer and filmmaker who has worked in newspapers, magazines, television, and film. In 2003, she joined Arkeofilms, an independent film production company where she is the Managing Director. She produced and co-wrote the hit comedy BIG TIME in 2015. She directed KANO: AN AMERICAN AND HIS HAREM which won the First Appearance Award in IDFA 2010. In 2015, she produced and co-wrote APOCALYPSE CHILD (2015) which bagged Best Film wins in QCinema FF, Five Flavours FF and Toronto Reel Asian FF. In 2017, she produced RESPETO, a hip hop political drama that swept major awards locally and abroad, participating in over 50 festivals up to this day. She is currently in pre-production for RETURN OF THE OWL, an absurd action drama slated for principal photography in June 2019.
At present, she is also running THIS SIDE UP, a content creation house that develops stories for commercial clients.
General Guidelines
- Films must be completed after 1st January 2017 till present
- To join this competition, you are required to submit your film entry from 22nd April 2019 onwards
- Film submission deadline: 20th June 2019
- Films can be released theatrically or available online (i.e. YouTube, Vimeo) prior to festival competition
- Films can be from all genres: fiction, documentary, animation
- Films can be presented in their original native language/dialect. Non-English language films are recommended to have English-language subtitles hard-burned in the video or provided in .srt format with the original copy (if you don’t have it, write to us)
- Viddsee does not accept works in progress or trailers
- Duration of films must be no longer than 30 minutes (including end credits)
- Films selected for Viddsee Juree showcase will be streamed online on Viddsee’s platform and they will not be allowed for a takedown for a period of two years
To qualify, the film must meet two of the three following standards:
- The Director is a current Indonesian Resident or an Indonesian Native
- The Executive Producer and/or Producer and/or Screenwriter must be an Indonesian native or resident
- At least 70% of the film was shot in Indonesia
Submissions Guidelines
Preferred File Format
- MP4 or MOV
- H.264
- At least 720p or higher in resolution.
- Here are the video requirements if you need to check encoding specs.
Select One Of The Following Methods in Submitting Your Film
Overall Process
After submitting your film, there will be a selection process by Viddsee’s curation team. After the selection is completed, we will send an email notification to the selected filmmakers. If your film is selected for Viddsee Juree, it will be screened online on viddsee.com platform on 24th June 2019 (tentative), and added to a channel collection named “Viddsee Juree Indonesia”. Out of these selected films, Viddsee’s curation team will select the top 10 films to further participate in the in-competition segment. The winning films from the in-competition segment will be chosen by the Jury.
Supporting Partners
