SeaShorts Film Festival

352 Submissions are received for SeaShorts Competition. The selection committee had been reviewing the film.

10 Malaysian short films will be selected for Next New Wave Competition. The deadline for submission is June 15th, 5 more days to go!

Garin Nugroho will head the jury for the Next New Wave Competition, a category for Malaysian filmmakers. Each year, 10 films are selected to compete for the Next New Wave Award.

Lee is the most sought-after editor in Southeast Asia. All 3 jury members for SeaShorts competition are announced: the head of jury Lav Diaz (Philippines), Bront Palarae (Malaysia), and last but not least, Lee Chatametikool (Thailand)!

An actor, screenwriter, director and producer, Bront Palarae is born in Alor Star, Malaysia but he is a Southeast Asian actor / filmmaker. He is of Malay, Punjabi-Pakistani and Thai ancestry.

20 short films from Southeast Asia will be in competition for SeaShorts Award, with Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz as the head the jury. A grand master of world cinema, Lav Diaz is an inspiration for many independent filmmakers not only in Southeast Asia, but through out the world.

Question and answer session with young Cambodian filmmakers, moderated by the Cambodian programmer, Park Sungho (second from left). The 3rd Southeast Asian Short Film Festival, SeaShorts had announced their festival date to be September 25 to 29th this year in Malacca.

What is it about cinema that make this medium so susceptible to reverential paeans to itself? What is it about celluloid spools, magnetic tapes, LaserDiscs, or the hyaline crispness of contemporary digital image that is able to continually hypnotize and afflict generations after generations with a deeply dysfunctional affection known as cinephilia?

A Year and It’s Cycle Opens to Something New. Written by Elise Shick A year just completed its cycle in the blink of an eye and here I am, standing in front of the audience crowd, announcing our failed Indiegogo campaign for SeaShorts Film Festival 2018.