Kiki SUGINO Actress, Director, Producer Born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1984. Kiki debut in the Korean film, “One Shining Day”(2005).
Then appeared in “Time“(2006) by Ki-duk Kim. From 2008, she starts producing movies. She won Best Picture and Best Actress Award by starring and producing the movie “Hospitalit´e”(2010) by Koji Fukada. Sugino also appeared and produced “Odayaka”(2012) by Nobuteru Uchida and “Au revoir l’été “ by Koji Fukada, etc. She was chosen by the Jury at International Film Festival Rotterdam for the first time of Japanese in 2014.
She started directing “Kyoto Elegy” (2014). Her second featured film, “Taksu” won the
Rising Director Award at Busan International Film Festival. Directed and starring “Snow Woman”(2016), premiered at the competition Tokyo Film Festival and she won the Jury Prize at the QCinema IFF. "I want to be loved" directed by Ronan Girre, "Town without Sea" directed by Elaiza Ikeda, "A Picture with Yuki" directed by Luchezar Avramov, "Love Mooning" directed Kunitoshi Manda, etc. are coming soon.

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Shuzo John SHIOTA President & CEO, Polygon Pictures Inc. Graduate of the Sophia University Faculty of Law, Department of International Legal Studies. Joining the Nippon Steel Corporation in 1991. After going on to participate in the launch of Dream Picture Studio in 1997, he moved to Polygon in 1999. In 2003, he assumed the position of President and CEO, spearheaded efforts to cultivate Polygon’s overseas presence. On the other hand, He has also served as a judge at Prix Ars Electronica (Australia) and SIGGRAPH (United States), etc. In 2008, he was selected as one of the “25 Toon Titans of Asia” by Animation Magazine. At the 2016 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, he presided as a. He has raised in the United States and his hobbies include playing in a band. Message
Because of the technology evaluation, humans, things, and information circulate freely never seen before. However, the result of this, the crisis of COVID-19 came at almost the same time around the world. I am interested in how creators reacted variously in this each "ordinary life" are waving.

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Kohei ANDO Film Maker, Programming Advisor of Tokyo International Film Festival Professor emeritus at Waseda University Ando, who in his youth worked with Shuji Terayama　who was very famous poet, author and film director in Japan, is known for his refined and creative expressivity as a filmmaker. He is a global pioneer to incorporate Hi-vision techniques in film making. His many films have received numerous international awards, including the Silver Maile Award at the Hawaii International Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the International Electronic Cinema Festival in Montreux. His works are included in the collections at major art museums and film libraries in Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo and elsewhere. In both 2001 and 2005, his retrospective exhibition had been held in Paris. Message
A short film is like a haiku which is a traditional poetry style in Japan. Various imagination makes in the small space in the film. Dynamically, gorgeously, poetry, and greatly DigiCon6 is a powerful partner of young talented creators. I’m jealous of these young people currently living.

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Karen Severns Writer, Programmer and Educator Karen Severns has worked in New York and Tokyo as a filmmaker, film critic and programmer, journalist and advertising executive. She holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University and an MS in Journalism, and currently teaches film courses at Temple University Japan and Tokyo University of the Arts. She has been the film series curator at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan since 2008, and a programmer for the New York Asian Film Festival since 2015. She is a founding partner of Tokyo-based KiSMet Productions, a boutique film production/promotion company involved in transnational projects. Message
In these challenging times, we are reminded that the creation and sharing of art is critical to our lives and our hopes for the future. I look forward to being amused, moved, inspired and enchanted by the singular cinematic visions of the DigiCon6 Asia filmmakers.

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Paul Williams Animator Born in 1976, England. After studying 7 years in art & film, Paul graduated from B.A Animation at UWCN.
Since 2003 he has worked as an animator in feature films across various countries including England, Germany, France, Spain, & Holland among others. Working on the Oscar nominated films “The Illusionist" by Sylvain Chomet & "The Red Turtle" by Michael Dudok de Wit, which also won the Un Certain Regard award at Cannes for Studio Ghibli. Including the upcoming film "Where is Anne Frank" by Ari Folman.
Paul has lived in Japan since April 2018 and currently freelances on upcoming projects yet to be announced. Message
In these times, more so than ever, people are at home watching their screens to soak in the stories of our age. Storytelling in its wildest forms are as important as ever, and these finals at DigiCon6 are for me, the melting pot of Asia's finest talents.
And so it is from the regional competitions, and those that have made it through to the finals that I wish the very warmest congratulations for being a part of this event.
For those that have made it here, Congratulations to everyone! I can't wait to see the wonderful and varied storytelling to come from each of you.
It is with these thoughts, I sincerely wish everyone the very best in the coming awards ceremony and that we can all enjoy and appreciate the diverse range of creativity and stories to be told at this year's finals…

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Edmund Yeo film Director Edmund Yeo is a Malaysian filmmaker living and working in Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo. His short films, KINGYO (Venice Film Festival 2009) and INHALATION (Sonje Award winner, Busan International Film Festival 2010) secured his reputation as a promising filmmaker. In 2017, he won the Best Director award at the Tokyo International Film Festival for his sophomore feature AQERAT (We, The Dead) (Japanese title: アケラット−ロヒンギャの祈り). MALU (Japanese title: Malu 夢路）, a Malaysian-Japanese co-production co-starring Nagase Masatoshi and Mizuhara Kiko is his latest film. Message
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has created many difficulties in our everyday life, but it has also magnified the importance of visual storytelling. These creative works by storytellers of different countries have provided hope and inspiration for viewers, proving that creative arts will still burn brightly amidst whichever darkness we face. To these creators, I thank you for uniting us with your works. It is an honour for me, as a jury member, to experience what the Digicon6 filmmakers of various different countries have created this year.

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