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Twenty features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 82nd Academy Awards®.
The 20 submitted features are:
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on August 17, 2009 under Animation|Anime, Film Festival, Foreign Film | Comments are off for this article
REDLINE, the new animation feature by Takeshi Koike (director) and Katsuhito Ishii (screenwriter) had it’s world premiere on world’s finest and most enormous open air cinema PIAZZA GRANDE at the Locarno International Film Festival in front of 5′000 passionate viewers.
Prior the screening, the film team, including producers Masao Maruyama, Iwase and just maried Yukiko Futakata – newly mrs Takeshi Koike – appeared on stage all gathered by a red ruban-line for the presentation by festival director Frederic Maire.
After five years of production, REDLINE finally emerged in its entirety and demonstrate the potential and new possiblities of 2D animation, amidst the current prominence of 3D animation. The press and public were amazed by the creativity, the quality and the art they discovered on Piazza Grande’s huge screen.
The film is going to be released in Japan during Spring 2010.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on July 16, 2009 under Animation|Anime, Foreign Film | Comments are off for this article
A new animated Palestinian film, Fetenah, tells the real story of 28-year-old Fatma Bargouth who is refused treatment for breast cancer. Her story documented by the Physicians for Human Rights, Israeli human rights agencies and animated by Dar Films, looks at the lack of health care given to Gazans. With large eyes, the woman represents Palestinian females who are “compelled to a bitter existence but not empowered to speak,” the director Ahmad Habash says.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on July 2, 2009 under Animation|Anime, Film Festival, Foreign Film | Comments are off for this article
Following a historic win at the Edinburgh Film Festival, the acclaimed Irish animated feature, “The Secret of Kells,” has been acquired by Empire Film Group, Inc. for theatrical, video and television release into the USA market. The coveted Standard Life Audience Award was presented to producer Paul Young on Sunday by Sir Sean Connery at the awards ceremony in Edinburgh, Scotland, and marks the first time in the prestigious festival’s 61-year history that an animated feature has won the top audience award.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on May 18, 2009 under Animation|Anime, Film Festival, Foreign Film | Comments are off for this article
Walt Disney Pictures’ “Ponyo” will close this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival on Sunday, June 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the Mann Village Theater. From the Academy Award®-winning director and world-renowned Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki comes “Ponyo,” a story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid.” Already a box-office success in Japan, the story of a young and overeager goldfish named Ponyo (voiced by Noah Cyrus) and her quest to become human features an outstanding roster of voice talent, including Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin, Betty White and Frankie Jonas as Sosuke, a young boy who befriends Ponyo.
The movie opens in theaters on August 14, 2009.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on April 28, 2009 under Animation|Anime, Foreign Film, Short Films | Comments are off for this article
Hang on to your hats: things are going to get a little bumpy at the 48th International Critics’ Week (May 14-22) at Cannes. That’s because acclaimed Winnipeg, Canada animator Cordell Barker – the man who gave us such animated gems as The Cat Came Back – is back with Runaway, his latest creation. A train wreck of a movie in the finest and funniest sense of the term, Runaway will have its World Premiere during this prestigious one-week event.
What would happen if the world were a driverless train thundering recklessly over bumpy tracks? With his third short film, Runaway (www.nfb.ca/runaway), two-time Oscar nominee Cordell Barker provides a caustic answer to this philosophical question.
Fast-paced, colourful and a joy to watch, Runaway shows us happy passengers having a great time on a crowded train, oblivious to the fate that awaits them around the bend. After a breakdown, a class struggle ensues that is as amusing as it is merciless – with everyone equal in the end. Runaway takes audiences on a journey that is as funny as it is disastrous, set to the infectious music of Benoît Charest, composer for The Triplets of Belleville. This 9-minute short is produced by Derek Mazur out of the NFB Prairie Centre in Winnipeg.
International Critics’ Week is a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival that features short films alongside feature works by first- or second-time filmmakers.
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Academy Award®-nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Waltz With Bashir will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on June 23, 2009 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The winner of the Golden Globe® for Best Foreign Language Film, Waltz With Bashir was written and directed by Ari Folman.
Based on actual events, Waltz With Bashir is a powerful and groundbreaking animated feature that follows one man’s personal experience with the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. In addition to its Academy Award nomination and Golden Globe win, Waltz With Bashir was nominated for the Palme D’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and was a 2008 official selection at the New York Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on April 6, 2009 under Animation|Anime, Film Festival | Comments are off for this article
Mary and Max, the opening film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, will premiere in theaters this Friday, April 10.
The story, narrated by Australian comedian Barry Humphries, is of a 20-year pen-pal friendship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle (Bethany Whitmore and Toni Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, and Max Horowitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a 44-year-old Jewish man, who is severely obese, suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, and lives an isolated life in New York City, USA. Eric Bana provides the voice for Damien. Molly Meldrum plays a homeless man. [via]