Nozomi Kubota’s documentary “Voices Erased by AI” won the BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY award at the Hollywood Stage Script Film Competition.
Creator’s NEXT Inc. Press Release: October 28, 2025 Nozomi Kubota’s documentary “Voices Erased by AI” won the BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY award at the Hollywood Stage Script Film Competition. This film, which suggests the unconscious exclusion of minorities in an AI society, has won awards at three international film festivals and international art awards.
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https://bestfilmawards.com/winners/hollywood-stage-script-film-competition ■About the documentary “Voices Erased by AI”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/38825/80/38825-80-87b6f7c3e8e61a4133dcd66ec7fc413b-1778×1000.jpg A scene from the documentary. The book is primarily comprised of interviews with individuals with cleft hand, their families, and medical professionals. In the field of generative AI, the topic of fingers not forming five digits is a frequent topic of discussion. Engineers use large amounts of GPU power and electricity to turn fingers that do not form five digits into five digits, but can this action really be described as simply error correction? “Perhaps this is the life of an excluded minority,” thought Kubota, and he spoke to people with cleft hand, who are born without five fingers, as well as their families and medical professionals, to create a
documentary-style video work. Cast (titles omitted) Yuki Asahara (NPO Hand&Foot) Yu Otsuka (NPO Hand&Foot) Hidehiko Kawabata (Director, Minami Osaka Children’s Rehabilitation Hospital) Slim (Influencer, Entrepreneur) Video Production Yuto Kurokawa, Minami Kurokawa ■Awarded at three international film festivals and international art awards With this BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY award, “Voices Erased by AI” has now won three awards at international film festivals and international art awards. ・Hollywood Stage Script Film Competition 2025, Hollywood, USA Awarded “BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY” ・ICP Entertainment Film Festival 2025, New York, USA Awarded “BEST HUMANITY FILM” Won the “Grand Prize” at the CENRETA ART AWARD 2025 in Thailand and Japan Won the “Grand Prize” ■About the Activities of Contemporary Artist Nozomi Kubota Concept “Outlier’s Roar” As the CEO of a company promoting the social implementation of AI, Kubota holds 20 AI patents both in Japan and overseas. He has been researching data analysis and AI technology for the past 20 years. In AI development, mixing heterogeneous data with input data can lead to poor output accuracy. These are called outliers, and are typically eliminated. Kubota was troubled by this reality, saying, “The lives of social minorities and others should not be ignored, yet they are being overlooked in the evolutionary process.” Through his artwork, he seeks to reevaluate the value of outliers, which have been deemed unnecessary in society, and to pursue expressions that highlight their essential value.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/38825/80/38825-80-718052e4ad33c7a7fda713caaa935cfb-833×952.jpg Nozomu Kubota Contemporary Artist Nozomi Kubota Official Website See other works by Nozomi Kubota here
