JIFF Japan Indies Film Festival

JIFF 2024 - Congratulations! List of Award Winners

Best Movie Scripts　　　　　　
- SACRED SUN – Michael Louis Gould
Best Music Videos　　　　　　
- Edge of the Earth – Chris Ianuzzi, Ethem Serkan Sokmen
Best Documentary Short　　　
- The Discoverer of the Discoverers – C. S. Nicholson　
Bonded Spirits Honor Award　
- Support Sake – Christopher Leyva, Alberto Sanchez
Best Documentary Feature　　
- Resynator – Alison Tavel　
International Friendship Award　
- The Chef & The Daruma – Mads K. Baekkevold　　
Best Narrative Short　　　　　　
- The Unreachable Star – Sharon S. Park　
Breakthrough Director Award　　
- EXTREME FLASHBACKER – Fumiya Hara　
　 Narrative Feature
Rising Creator Award　　　
- Lonely Nights in Chinatown – Ryan Storm
Special Jury Award　　　　
- PERFECT SHARED HOUSE – Ami Michelle Sakurai　
Grand Prize - Best Narrative Feature　　
👑- Chin Ton Shan – Riki OHKANDA

JIFF2024 Nominated Films セレクト&ノミネート作品
### Movie Scripts
**Select:**
- AT THE MERCY OF FAITH - Terror Version – Samuel Lee Taylor
- TOKYO GHOST – Rachel Walsh-Williams
- Summer of Tenderness – Tue Duy Nguyen
**Nominate:**
- PSYCHOPOMP: gaikokujin – Jose Montalvo
- Last Gasp – TOM CHOLMONDELEY
- SACRED SUN – Michael Louis Gould
### Music Videos
**Select:**
- Blackbird – Robert Taira Wilson
- Gayle FMK (with blackbear) – Chris Ullens
- Andy Keys Clark - 'Starnation' – Ignatius Rake
**Nominate:**
- Edge of the Earth – Chris Ianuzzi, Ethem Serkan Sokmen
- We Couldn't Stop It – Gary Manning Gowans
- Where are you – Noé Souchaud
### Documentary Short
**Select:**
- Kentaro – Tilmann Stewart, Gaku Matsuda
- Foodlife: Farming for a Sustainable Future – Kyle Hufford
- Mended together – Chen Chih Ming
- Show Girl – Takeru Toyoshima
**Nominate:**
- The Discoverer of the Discoverers – C. S. Nicholson
- Support Sake – Christopher Leyva, Alberto Sanchez
### Narrative Short
**Select:**
- YOKO – DAISUKE KAMIJYO
- Thoughts Become Things – Marquedelle Philip Rodriguez
- Doppelgänger – Kohei Ohashi
- CHAMPIONS – The AG Brothers (Asher and Aaron Goldenberg)
- I order you – Ryosuke Hayazaka
- Apocalyptic Sound – Kazuki Watanabe
**Nominate:**
- The Unreachable Star – Sharon S. Park
- FUTURE! FUTURE! – KAIRI MANABE, YOSHIHIKO YAMAMOTO
- EXTREME FLASHBACKER – Fumiya Hara
- The Last King – Ali Mashayekhi
- Lucy's Birthday – Peter Sreckovic
### Documentary
**Nominate:**
- Resynator – Alison Tavel
- The Chef & The Daruma – Mads K. Baekkevold
- Boom - Maia Hirasawa's Japan – Jonatan Järbel
### Narrative Feature
**Select:**
- Satu - Year of the Rabbit (2025) – Joshua Trigg
- Stalkers – Paul Thompson
**Nominate:**
- Chin Ton Shan – Riki OHKANDA
- All The Songs We Never Sang – Chris Rudz
- Lonely Nights in Chinatown – Ryan Storm
- [MADO] – MAO
- PERFECT SHARED HOUSE – Ami Michelle Sakurai
- Endless Summer Syndrome – Kaveh Daneshmand

➕ **Special Presentation Film 特別上映作品**
- Summer Light, Summer Sound 「夏の光　夏の音」– Masaru Yasokawa (八十川勝監督)

**Japan Indies Film Festival 2024**
An international indie film festival accredited by the UK Raindance Film Festival. On November 27 and 28, join us at Theater Guild Daikanyama for two days of screenings featuring carefully selected indie films from around the world. JIFF2024 selection directors plus one guest are invited.

Tickets available at: [https://theaterguild.co/movie/detail/JIFF2024/](https://theaterguild.co/movie/detail/JIFF2024/)

Here is the list of award-winning films at JIFF2023:

*Best Screenplay: "Wild Mind" written by Fujiyo Torikai
*Best Music Video: "Saturday Everyday" directed by Stephen David Brooks
*Best Music Video: "Monique Sonique" directed by Ingrid Heiderscheidt
*Best Short Film: "Third Wheel 晴れて成仏" directed by Kevin Haefelin
*Best Feature Film: "Indelible Memories/消せない記憶" directed by Shin Sonoda
*Special Jury Prize: "DUO/Two Souls" directed by Yuri Radkovski
*Audience Award: "Tsushima /対馬" directed by Takafumi Yamane
*JIFF2023 Grand Prize Winner: "Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel" directed by Dany Garcia
Congratulations to all the winners!

最優秀脚本賞　「ワイルドマインド」　鳥飼富士雄
最優秀音楽ビデオ　「サタデイエブリデイ」　スティーブン・デイビッド・ブルックス
最優秀音楽ビデオ　「モニークソニーク」イングリッド・ハイダーシャイト
最優秀短編賞　「晴れて成仏」　ケヴィン・ヘフェリン
最優秀長編賞　「消せない記憶」　園田新
審査委員特別賞　「デュオ」　ユーリ・ラドコフスキー
観客賞　「対馬」山根高文
JIFF2023大賞　「ゴースト　オブ　ザ　チェルシーホテル」　ダニー・ガルシア

おめでとうございます！

2023 JIFF Japan Indies Film Festival Nominated Films:

Ones Left Behind - Rionne McAvoy
Tofu - Hiroyuki Nishiyama
the 10 Rooms - Tsukasa Kishimoto
Third Wheel - Kevin Haefelin
Tsushima - Takafumi Yamane
Ghosts of Chelsea Hotel - Daniel Garcia
Karish (Itch) - Mohammad Anwerzada
Indelible Memories - Shin Sonoda
Portrait of Consumption - Gillian Fortin
The Overkill - Joanna Tsanis
Let’s Make Blueberry Jam -Yusuke Hayamizu
Monique Sonique - Ingrid Heiderscheidt
Saturday Everyday - Stephen David Brooks
Walkin on the Ritz - James Velaise, Charlotte Teillard d'Eyry
Munching Dogs - Kanzo Kaga

JIFF 2023 Official Selection Films:

The Yesterday - Benita Vera von Sass
Tokyo Animals - Toshiki Yashiro
Happy Sandwich - Tsukasa Kishimoto

JIFF2023 Best Script Nominated

Twisted Fortune Cookies written by Al Jones
Wild Mind written by Fujio Torikai
Red Seuin written by Erik Sudberg
Black Cross written by Korea Black, Gianna Rose

Japan Indie Film Festival 2023 - An international independent film festival certified by the UK Raindance Film Festival. Will be held for two days on November 27th and 28th, at Daikanyama Theater Guild. 16 indie films carefully selected from submissions from all over the world will be screened.

Theater Guild in Daikanyama is the best movie theater in all of Japan but few people know about it. Super high tech. No screen. LED light bank for showing movies. It's beautiful!
Sofas and EZ chair recliners. There are no theater-style seats. There's no sound! Everyone gets their own headphones! It's a silent theater!
A theater that looks like the lobby of a 5-star hotel! Nice bar too! This place seems like the perfect place for a first date or even a proposal of course, it is the most awesome place in Japan to watch a movie!

https://theaterguild.co/

See you at the JIFF 5th year Film Festival!

ージャパンインディーズフィルムフェスティバル２０２4ー 英国レインダンス映画祭認定のインディーズ国際映画祭 １１月２７、２８日の2日間 全世界から応募の中から厳選のインディーズ作品を上映

2023年はシアターギルド代官山にて上映と授賞式を開催 https://theaterguild.co/

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BIG NEWS! A film that had its Asia Premiere at JIFF Japan Indies Film Festival in 2022 has won an Emmy for 2023! Huge Congratulations to John Alexander and Sharon Preston Folta for the 2023 Emmy Award for "Little Satchmo!"
Also congratulations to Tatsuro Manno for the theatrical screening of Storage Man. This film World-Premiered at JIFF!!!

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2022 JIFF Japan Indies Film Festival Winners!
Best Script: "Isaac Newton" by Randall Palmer
Best Music Video: "Colours of Love" by Indrajit Nattoli
Best Short: "Storage Man" by Tatsuro Manno
Best Documentary: "Little Satchmo" by John Alexander
Audience Award: "Kaiju Girl" by Takafumi Sakabe
Honorable Mention Audience Award: "Un Ange Passe" by Natsuko Sagawa
Grand Prix Winner: "Update" by Yo Okazaki

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JIFF VOTED #3 OF TOP FILM FESTIVALS IN ASIA by Raindance London!

JIFF Top 10 in Asia! 10 Best Film Festivals in Asia | Raindance Film School! JIFF Top 10 in Asia!: https://www.raindance.org/the-best-film-festivals-in-asia/

7 Reasons To Submit to the Japan Indies Film Festival by Elliot Grove. https://www.raindance.org/7-reasons-to-submit-to-japan-indies-film-festival/

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We are the official JIFF Japan Indies Film Festival.

The official JIFF Japan Indies Film Festival is a true independent international film festival supporting young talent around the world.

Creating dreams and hope through cinema is our vision. Returning Japan to the glory days of cinema for young filmmakers and independent artists the goal of the official JIFF Japan Indies Film Festival.

Our Jury includes some of Japan's top filmmakers and other famous filmmakers as well as industry leaders on the Arts as Jury members from around the world.

Jury Members:

*Suzanne Ballantyne - Jurist / Co-Founder / Vice President / Jurist - Program Director of Raindance

*Elliot Grove Jurist - Director / Writer / Founder Raindance

*Stephen David Brooks - Jurist / Director / Writer

*Hiroshi Matsumoto - Jurist / Founder of Fan Communications, inc. (E-Marketing company)

*Nikita Hattangady - Jurist / Director / Writer / head of programming with Indica Pictures

*Kenjo McCurtain- Jurist / Director / Writer

*Donie Ordiales - Jurist / artist /Director

*Catherine Scaillet Van Der Stappen - Jurist / music composer & producer

*Sheena Rogers - Jurist
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Organizers:
Universal Vision Ltd.（JIFF）

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