Screening: JCCC Japanese Shorts Festival

Nerman • Hudson Auditorium • Second Floor

Screening: JCCC Japanese Shorts Festival

The JCCC Japanese Shorts Festival (JSF) gives Japanese language students the chance to use the Japanese they’ve learned to express themselves creatively in a 3- to 5-minute original video short. Students at all schools in Kansas and Missouri that currently offer Japanese language classes are invited to form teams of up to four members, and to write their original scripts, cast the roles, choose their music, sound effects and location, then start filming!

Fourteen original Japanese-language shorts were submitted for judgment this year, representing the work of thirty-six students from JCCC, the University of Kansas, the Kansas City Art Institute, and Wichita State University. Topics of the shorts included a historically factual samurai assassination, the adventures of a team of ghost hunters, an unsuccessful cloning experiment, magical teleporting bedroom slippers, an illustration of Kawaii girl culture, the renewed inspiration of a music student, a murder by a demon cat, the guilt of a careless pet sitter, talking horses in the news, a magical teleporting doorway, a skeletal clothes salesman who upsets a witch, a parody of the JSF itself, an original love song, and a philosophical lesson about stoicism.

Learn more about the JCCC Japanese Short’s Festival.