Creo has announced the jury lineup for the 2025 Sony Future Filmmaker Awards, which is set to take place at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City from June 2 to June 6.
The competition, created by Creo in collaboration with Sony, seeks to highlight original voices globally. The selected filmmakers are brought to Los Angeles annually for an in-depth program consisting of workshops, screenings, networking opportunities and more.
Justin Chadwick, award-winning theater, television and film director and Chair of the Jury said: “Last year’s shortlist selection illuminated the talent of thirty filmmakers who transformed their visions into captivating stories, bringing them into the heart of moviemaking in Los Angeles where they gained invaluable awareness of our ever-evolving industry. With this year’s competition, we are looking for projects that hold the potential not only to change the lives of these filmmakers but also to provoke and compel us as viewers to alter our outlooks. I am grateful to return for the third year as Chair and I speak for the jury when I say how excited we are to discover the creativity and passion which the 2025 competition will surely bring.”
Members of the jury 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 consecutive year on the jury.
The program, which offers free entry, has an open submission cycle until Dec. 12. The selection of Shortlisted filmmakers will be announced on April 29.
The program will conclude with an awards ceremony in which winners across four categories will be honored with cash prizes as well as Sony digital imaging equipment. The ceremony will take place on June 5. The four categories are Fiction, Non-Fiction, Animation and Student. The first two categories have expanded to include a total of 10 filmmakers each.
