Held this year for the eighth time, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, ISCA received a record number of entries, 306 entries from 53 schools in Japan with another 615 entries from 69 countries from around the world.
Regarding art submissions are divided into the following three categories: Domestic Video Content, International Video Content, and Digital Content.
All 26 nominated works were made publicly available on ISCA Wonderland, the special festival website, starting on Wednesday, November 18, and viewers were also given the opportunity to vote on works, as a way of showing support for these creators of the future.
Plus, there was the ISCA 2020 presents "Cho" School Special Program, which was held over three consecutive nights from Monday, November 30 to Wednesday, December 2. Ten judges attending ISCA 2020 also held a relay lecture, enlivening ISCA in the lead up to the award ceremony.
At the awards ceremony on Saturday, December 5, Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima, who worked on the graphic design for the entire Harry PotterTM series, gave a special live talk entitled "Telling Stories Through Design" from London.
As well, there was a live performance by SHIRO-A, which is achieving success across the world, and a live streamed talk session Inside Stories—Because They Can Now, with winners talking about the inside stories of their productions together with the judges. Plus, this year for the first time, the official ISCA 2020 Instagram account was launched, and model Roy, the ISCA 2020 Ambassador, introduced the works and showed viewers what went on at the award ceremony and the judging session, adding a spark to ISCA.

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