Creo has announced the jury for the 2025 Sony Future Filmmaker Awards, which will take place at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City from June 2nd to June 6th.

Created by Creo in partnership with Sony, the competition aims to highlight original voices globally. The selected filmmakers are taken annually to Los Angeles for an in-depth program consisting of workshops, screenings, networking opportunities and more.

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Justin Chadwick, award-winning theatre, television and film director and chairman of the jury said: “Last year’s selection of shortlists highlighted the talent of thirty filmmakers who turned their visions into compelling stories and brought them into the heart of Los Angeles filmmaking where they gained invaluable awareness about our ever-evolving industry With this year’s competition, we’re looking for projects that have the potential not only to change the lives of these filmmakers, but also to provoke and compel us as viewers to change our views. I am grateful to return for a third year as chairman and I speak for the jury when I say how excited we are to discover the creativity and passion that the 2025 competition is sure to bring.”

Jurors for this year’s competition include Minhal Baig (“We Grown Now,” “Hala,” “BoJack Horseman”), Elizabeth Gabler (“Where the Crawdads Sing,” upcoming “Klara and the Sun,” “Life of Pi”), Jason Reitman (“Saturday Night,” “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” “Juno”) and Chadwick (“Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,” “The Other” Boleyn Girl,” “Shardlake”) This will mark Chadwick’s third year in row i the jury.

The program, which offers free entry, has an open submission cycle until December 12. The selection of shortlisted filmmakers will be announced on April 29.

The program will conclude with an awards ceremony where winners in four categories will be honored with cash prizes as well as Sony digital imaging equipment. The ceremony takes place on June 5. The four categories are fiction, non-fiction, animation and student. The first two categories have been expanded to include a total of 10 filmmakers each.

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