Hiroshima International Animation Festival

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Hiroshima, Japan August 2013, TBA
Festival is held biennially
Call for Entry Deadline: April 2013, TBA
Festival is held biennially
Festival Data:
- Established: 1985
- Genre: Animation - Games (click to see)
- Attendance: 31674
- Total Number of Films Submitted: 1656
- Total Number of Films Screened: 426
- # of Shorts Screened: 408
- # of Features Screened: 18
- Accreditations: AMPAS, ASIFA
- Competitive
- Has Panels
Festival Website:
http:/ / hiroanim.org/
Festival Description:

Hiroshima International Animation Festival will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2010. The Festival is administered, under the endorsement of Association Internationale du Film d'Animation/International Animated Film Association(ASIFA), in accordance with its regulations by the Organizing Committee, which is a non-profit organization consisting of the City of Hiroshima, the Hiroshima City Culture Foundation, ASIFA -Japan.

The festival's Competition program is for short animation only. Feature films are shown in the special programs. 76 selected titles will be shown to the public during the festival in the competition programs. An International Jury, consisting of six members, will evaluate and choose the award winning titles. Festival Prize and Cash Awards are: Grand Prix of ¥1,000,000, Hiroshima Prize of ¥1,000,000, Debut Prize of ¥500,000, Renzo Kinoshita Prize of ¥300,000,Renė Laloux Prize of US$2,000, Audience Prize of ¥100,000.

Email:	hiroanim(at)urban.ne.jp
Phone:	(81) 82 245 0245
Fax:	(81) 82 245 0246
Mailing Address:	Hiroshima Festival Office 4-17 Kako-machi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima 730-0812 Japan

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SEP 15, 2008 08:04PM FFW Festival Editor writes:

The Hiroshima International Animation Festival announces the 2008 Official Awards

Grand Prize: Franz Kafka’s "A Country Doctor"
Directed by: Koji Yamamura
Produced/Distributed by: Mariko Seto, Fumi Teranishi (Shochiku Co., Ltd.)
2007/20'56"
Country: Japan

Hiroshima and Audience Prize: "La Maison en Petits Cubes"
Directed by: Kunio Kato (ROBOT)
Produced by: Masanori Kusakabe, Yuko Shin (ROBOT)
Distributed by: ROBOT Communications Inc
2008/12'08"
Country: Japan

Debut Prize: The Heart is a Metronome (Original Title : Le Coeur est un Métronome)
Directed by: Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo
2007/4'30"
Country: France

Renzo Kenoshita Prize: Breakfast (Original Title : Sniadanie)
Directed by: Izabela Plucinska (Clay Traces GbR)
Distributed by: Clay Traces GbR
2006/2'17"
Country: Poland/Germany

Rene Laloux Prize: A Little Farther (Original Title : D'un Peu Plus Loin)
Directed by: François-Marc Baillet
2007/2'00"
Country: France

Special International Jury Prize: Madame Tutli-Putli
Directed by: Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski (National Film Board of Canada - Festival Office - NFB)
Produced by: Marcy Page(National Film Board of Canada - NFB)
Distributed by: Johanne Saint-Arnauld(National Film Board of Canada - NFB)
2007/17'15”
Country: Canada

KJFG No.5
Directed by: Alexey Alekseev
Produced by: Studio Baestarts Film & Video Ltd.
2007/2'00"
Country: Hungary

Oktapodi
Directed by: Julien Bocabeille, François Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi (Talantis Films)
Produced by: Gobelins École De L'image
Distributed by: Carolina Alckmin (Talantis Films)
2007/2'29"
Country: France

Zhiharka
Directed by: Oleg Uzhinov (Pilot Moscow Animation Studio)
Produced by: Igor Gelashvili (Pilot Moscow Animation Studio)
2006/13'12"
Country: Russia

Candid (Original Title : Cândido)
Directed by: Zepe
Produced by: Zepe - INSECTOS & LAMPADAACESA
Distributed by: AGENCIA
2007/11'05"
Country: Portugal

Don’t Let It All Unravel
Directed by: Sarah Cox (Arthur Cox Ltd)
Produced by: Sarah Jex (Aardman)
Distributed by: Helen Brunsdon (Aardman)
2006/2'05"
Country: U.K.

Special Jury: John and Karen
Directed by: Matthew Walker (Arthur Cox Ltd)
Produced by: Sarah Cox (Arthur Cox Ltd)
Distributed by: Candi Smith (Arthur Cox Ltd)
2007/3'30"
Country: U.K.

Minuscule - The Ladybug (Original Title : Minuscule - La Coccinelle)
Directed by: Thomas Szabo (Futurikon)
Produced by: Philippe Delarue (Futurikon)
Distributed by: Futurikon
2006/5'32"
Country: France

Beton
Directed by: Ariel Belinco, Michael Faust (Bezalel Academiy of Art & Design)
Produced/Distributed by: Animation Unit, Bezalel Academiy of Art & Design
2006/5'59"
Country: Israel

Lapsus
Directed by: Juan Pablo Zaramella
Produced by: Silvina Cornillon
2007/3'30"
Country: Argentina

Lavatory-Lovestory
Directed by: Konstantin Bronzit (Melnitsa Animation Studio)
Produced by: Alexander Boyarsky, Sergey Selyakov (Melnitsa Animation Studio)
2007/9'39"
Country: Russia

Lost in Snow (Original Title : Zudusi Śniega)
Directed by: Vladimir Leschiov
Produced/Distributed by: Inga Praulina (JetMedia)
Co-produced by: Witold Nowak (Ani Mera AB)
2007/7'28"
Country: Latvia
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