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Toronto Int'l Film Fest Screens International Premiere for Stop-Motion Anime Film Junk World
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TIFF will take place on September 4-14. The event will release the full schedule on August 12.
The film opened in Japan on June 13.
TIFF describes the film:
A surprise attack on a joint expedition between humans and their emancipated clones becomes the freaky fulcrum for a dimension-hopping, time-travel fable set over a millennia before Takahide Hori's original subterranean stop-motion animated opus, JUNK HEAD.
The prequel film is set 1,042 years before the story of the first film JUNK HEAD. The protagonist robot is named Robin, who also appeared in the first film under the name "Parton." In the new film, humans and artificial lifeforms investigate anomalies at an underground city that is supposedly a ghost town.
The prequel film was announced in 2023, and Hori spent three years making it.
Hori launched a crowdfunding campaign for the film to fund more equipment and staff for efficiency and quality. The first campaign raised 13,663,200 yen (about US$97,260 in current conversion). The second campaign raised 13,054,400 yen (about US$92,926). The project was set to proceed using the funds collected regardless of how much it earned.
Hori was in charge of all major duties in the movie, including directing, scriptwriting, character design, editing, music, storyboards, modeling, and voice acting.
Anime Limited released the original JUNK HEAD film.
A new theatrical cut for JUNK HEAD debuted in March 2021. Montreal's 25th Fantasia International Film Festival screened the new cut in August 2021. This was the new edit's North American premiere. The film won the Cigogne d'or prize for animated film at the 2021 Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival.
The film's original cut debuted in 2017.
Source: TIFF
