8th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival ends

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 -- The New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival recently held at New Chitose Airport and online for four days, ended Nov 8.

The competition screening, which is the main event of the festival, showed 92 films selected from over 2,200 submissions.

An award ceremony was held on Nov 8 at the Portom Hall located in the international terminal building of New Chitose Airport, according to a statement.

Among the awards recognised include Grand Prix for Short Films: ‘Easter Eggs’ Nicolas Keppens, Belgium; Japan Grand Prix: ‘Replacements’ Jonathan Hagard, Japan; and, New Talent Award: ‘The Fourth Wall’ Mahboobeh Kalaee, Iran.

Also listed Grand Prix for Feature Films: ‘The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily’ Lorenzo Mattotti, France & Italy; Best Student Film: ‘Butterfly Jam’ Shih-Yen Huang, France & Taiwan; and, Best Music Animation: ‘Czarodzielnica’ Klaudia Ptasinska, Poland.

There was a new event called NEW CHITOSE AIRPORT PITCH 2021. There, nine Japanese animation filmmakers made short presentations on their upcoming projects, with the festival office and one of the commentators commending two projects.

The projects are NEW CHITOSE AIRPORT PITCH AWARD: ‘CHERRY AND VIRGIN’ Project by Masanao Kawajiri; and, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal Award: ‘The Story of My First Love and the Rainbow Ferry That Was Sold’ Project by Honami Yano.

All winning works can be found on the official festival website at https://airport-anifes.jp/en.

-- BERNAMA