The five judges for the HAS2026 competition have been decided!
The international judges for the competition include Swiss animation filmmaker Georges Schwitzgebel, British animation filmmaker Elizabeth Hobbs, world-renowned authority on Arab and African animation studies Mohamed Ghazala, Katarzyna Surmacz, director of the Etiuda & Anima International Film Festival held annually in Krakow, Poland, and from Japan, Eiko Tanaka, representative and producer of Studio 4℃.During the film festival, the international judges will review films in the short film, Pan-Pacific and Asia Youth , and Japanese Commissioned Film, and determine the winning films (the feature film category winner will be decided by audience vote). The Grand Prix winner of the short film competition will also be eligible for a nomination for the Academy Awards.