Fwd: re: Animation in the media

[Aaron Gerow]

A member had a hard time sending this to the list, so I'm forwarding it 
on.
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Date:        02.27  8:10 PM
Received:    02.28  10:18 AM
From:        Antti Autio, anttiautio at mac.com
To:          gerow at ynu.ac.jp

Hello.
List members in Europe might be interested in the fact that there will 
be a retrospective screening of Yamamura's films, including Atama-yama, 
in Tough Eye/Turku International Animated Film Festival in May in 
Finland. This year's special programme series in Tough Eye is entitled 
"Focus on Japan"; it consists of screenings of animated films by 
Kihachiro Kawamoto, Osamu Tezuka, Yoji Kuri and Renzo Kinoshita, Image 
Forum programmes of experimental animation & more.

I'll forward a pointer to the English press release when it comes out, 
meanwhile you can find some information at http://www.tough-eye.com.

--
Antti Autio
programme assistant at Tough Eye

 >Finally, in good news, it was nice to see Tokudane, the best of the
 >morning TV wideshows, doing a 15 minute report this morning on Yamamura
 >Koji, the experimental animator whose Atama-yama was nominated for the
 >Academy Award for best animated short. They showed lots of clips from 
his
 >works and emphasized that of the 5 films nominated, only his was not 
done
 >on a computer (the 10 minute film took 2 years to make apparently, with
 >13,000 drawings). Perhaps this will boost his chances. The show also
 >joked about him being the Tanaka Koji of the animation industry.
 >Certainly, as with the Nobel prize winning Tanaka, probably 99.9999% of
 >the viewing population had not heard of him before his nomination.



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