Viddsee Juree Awards (‘Juree’) is an annual industry pick award celebrating the 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.
For the first time, the Juree Awards will be a fully online festival, complete with online screenings, and virtual discussions that will be held in the lead up to the awards ceremony, which will be broadcasted on Viddsee’s channels.
Prizes
Viddsee Filmmaker Gold Kit
Viddsee Filmmaker Silver Kit
Viddsee will present the Silver winner with the Viddsee Filmmaker Silver Kit. This includes a Silver Plaque, Adobe’s 12-month Creative Cloud All Apps subscription, and exclusive Viddsee merchandise.Viddsee Filmmaker Finalist Kit
Viddsee will present the 10 finalists with Adobe’s 12-month Creative Cloud All Apps subscription and finalist certificates.Viddsee Filmmaker Audience Choice Kit
Viddsee will present the Audience Choice Award winner with an Apple TV and Audience Choice certificate.
Judges
Armi Rae Cacanindin
Armi Rae Cacanindin is a Filipina producer based in Manila. One short that she produced, Jodilerks dela Cruz, Employee of the Month, by Carlo Francisco Manatad, premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week. It has traveled to more than 40 international festivals since then, won Best SEA Short at Singapore IFF, Best Short Film, Youth Jury Award at Taipei IFF, Special Jury Mention at San Francisco IFF in the US. Another short, Reminiscenes of the Green Revolution by Dean Marcial, premiered at Toronto IFF and later screened at Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival and streamed in Amazon Prime as part of the SXSW short film line-up.
She has received funding for her feature films from IDFA Bertha Fund, Aide aux Cinema du Monde, World Cinema Fund, Sundance Film Institute, Doha Film Institute, Purin Pictures, Asian Cinema Fund, Hubert Bals Fund, Singapore IFF and Talents Tokyo. One of these is Aswang, a creative documentary about the drug war in the Philippines, directed by Alyx Arumpac. It recently won the International Critic’s Prize (Fipresci) at the 2019 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
She now heads the Long Form Production of Globe Studios.
Paolo Bertolin
Paolo Bertolin is a festival programmer, film writer, and producer. He works as the Venice International Film Festival’s consultant for South and South East Asia, Oceania, and Turkey. He is also a member of the selection committee of Cannes' Directors' Fortnight and the Artistic Consultant of Locarno Open Doors. He has worked for several other international festivals and institutions, including the IFFRotterdam, the Doha Film Institute, Mumbai, Beijing, and Torino Film Festivals.
As a producer, Bertolin has worked on films like Phan Dang Di's Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (2015), Amit Dutta's short Chitrashala (2015) and Lav Diaz’s A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016), all of which were selected in Competition at the Berlinale.
Yosep Anggi Noen
Yosep Anggi Noen was born and raised in Yogyakarta, he began making short films since high school. Now Anggi not only makes films, but he is also a film lecturer in Multimedia Nusantara University. He graduated from the Asian Film Academy in 2007. His short film It’s Not Raining Outside played at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) in 2010
His debut feature-length film Peculiar Vacation and Other Illnesses (2012) was screened at IFFR and was nominated for Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival and competed at several International Film festivals such as the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and Vancouver International Film Festival. His film Solo, Solitude (2016) won the Hanoman Award at the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, as well as the nomination for the Golden Leopard in Locarno. His latest film The Science of Fictions gets a special mention at the 2019 Locarno International Film Festival. His latest project is still in the production process, a documentary that tells the story of the female band Voice of Baceprot.
General Guideline
- Films must be completed after 1st January 2018 till present
- To join this competition, you are required to submit your film entry from 14th May 2020 onwards
- You can submit more than 1 film entry
- Film submission deadline: 10th August 2020
- 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
- Viddsee does not accept works in progress or trailers
- Duration of films is preferred to be no longer than 30 minutes (including end credits)
- Film(s) does not infringe any rights of publicity or privacy, moral rights or intellectual property rights, including any music-related rights, is not defamatory or indecent, does not violate any applicable law or regulation (that is, is not illegal), or does not otherwise violate any rights of any person or entity. In particular, we stress that plagiarism, copying, and blatant infringement of the intellectual property and other rights of others is not acceptable.
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- 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.
- for any enquiries, write to submit@viddsee.com
To qualify, the film must meet two of the three following standards:
- The Director is a current Indonesia Resident or an Indonesian
- The Executive Producer and/or Producer and/or Screenwriter must be an Indonesian or resident
- At least 70% of the film was shot in the 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.
Submitting Your Film
Here are the few steps to submit your film:
- Go to creator.viddsee.com
- Sign up for a Viddsee Creator account using your Facebook or email account
- Fill up your personal details to complete the film license agreement
- Click on the button Add a new film to start uploading your film
- Indicate
JureeID2020in the “Referral code” field box - Submit your film to Viddsee for curation. We will get back to you on the status of your film submission!
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 the Viddsee.com platform on 20th Aug 2020, 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.
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