Hiroshima Animation Season Announces a New Award and its Winners: Golden Carpstar for the Achievement in Pan-Pacific and Asia Region
The international jury for the Pan-Pacific and Asia Competition is revealed.
The winners for 5 categories of the World Competition.
The official trailer by 7 animation artists is online.
A new international animation festival Hiroshima Animation Season (August 17-21, 2022), which, as a renewal of Hiroshima International Animation Festival, will be held for the first time this August at JMS Aster Plaza and other venues in Hiroshima City, will offer various programs based on the three sections of Competition, Award, and Academy.
Brand-new award: Golden Carpster, an award focusing on achievement in the Pan-Pacific and Asia!
Today, the festival is pleased to announce the Award section: “Golden Carpstar". This award will be presented to an individual, group, or organization that has made a significant contribution to the field of animation in the Pan-Pacific and Asia region in the two-year period from 2020 to 2021, based on more than 60 pages of the research by more than 20 national and international experts.
For this first edition, the following six individuals or groups were selected as winners. (in alphabetical order in Japanese.)
Kristine Belson (President, Features & Series, Sony Pictures Animation / USA) Motivation for Award: For introducing a new visual style in Hollywood animation with Academy Award®-winning "Spider-Man™: Into the Spider-Verse” and Academy Award®-nominated "The Mitchells vs. the Machines.”
Science SARU (Production Studio / Japan)
Motivation for Award: for its world-wide success with "Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!”, and a new take on telling a history in "Inu-oh" and "The Tale of the Heike".
Joe Hsieh (Animation Director / Taiwan)
Motivation for Award: For his pursuit of the horror/suspense genre, which is rare in animation, and which came to fruition in the animated short "Night Bus," which won many awards including the Grand Prix in the Short Film Competition at Animafest Zagreb.
Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC) (Production Studio, Festival Management, etc. / Iran)
Motivation for Award: For its continuous support of animation expression in Iran for over 30 years including the production of "The Fourth Wall" (directed by Mahboobeh Kalaee), the film that won numerous awards worldwide, including the Grand Prix in the Animation Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival this year.
Feinaki: Beijing Animation Week (Animation Event / China)
Motivation for Award: For connecting the Chinese animation world with the international scene and bringing diversity to the ecosystem of expression through the organization of international animation events and active and steady screening activities.
Yoriko Mizushiri (Animation Director / Japan)
Motivation for Award: For showing a new path for the activities for animation artists in Japan through her recent projects like her VR animation "Otawamure" and her short animation "Anxious Body".
The award ceremony for Golden Carpstar will be held during the Hiroshima Animation Season 2022 Opening Ceremony on August 17. Related programs will also be held during the festival to celebrate the award winners.
What is "Carpstar"? = A creature that is a combination of a carp, which is familiar to Hiroshima citizens, and a twinkling star, and is the mascot character of the Hiroshima Animation Season. Designed by Koji Yamamura, one of the artistic directors of Hiroshima Animation Season.
The international jury members for the Pan-Pacific and Asia Competition are revealed.
“Mitsui Fudosan Realty Chugoku Presents: Hiroshima Animation Season 2022 Competition," which received 2,149 entries from 86 countries and regions between January 7 and February 28 of this year, will feature two competitions: the Pan-Pacific and Asia Competition, which focuses on the discovery of talent from this region, and the World Competition, which competes in five categories for each genre.
The festival is pleased to announce the three international jury members for the Pan-Pacific and Asia Competition.
Florence Miailhe (Animation Director/France), a master of oil painting animation whose first feature animation "The Crossing" won the Jury Distinction at last year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Chris Robinson (Author / Canada), Artistic Director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the largest animation festival in North America, and author of many books on independent animation, and one of the Golden Carpstar winners Joe Hsieh (Animation Director / Taiwan). The three jury members will come to Hiroshima during the festival as a jury member as well as conduct a special program.
The winners of the Pan-Pacific and Asia Competition will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on August 21, the last day of the festival.
The World Competition, Category Award and Juryʼs Personal Pick Award are revealed!
The jury of the World Competition, whose members had been announced earlier, conducted a pre-jury meeting prior to the festival, and the Category Award and the Juryʼs Personal Pick Award are decided.
The World Competition: Category Award
Category: ”Allegories Nowadays” (for fiction-based films)
Category Award: Skinned (Joachim Hérissé/France)
Arthur Binard Award: Confessions of an English Ant-Eater (Alex Crumbie/United Kingdom)
Hiroko Sebu Award: In the Mountains (Wally Chung/United States)
Shizuka Miyazaki Award: Prince in a Pastry Shop (Katarzyna Agopsowicz/Poland)
Audience Award: To be determined by audience vote during the festival
Category: “A Slice of Society” (for animated documentaries and films with social issues)
Category Award: Salvia at Nine (Jang Nari/Korea)
Kiki Sugino Award: The House of Loss (Jinkyu Jeon /Japan, Korea)
Asako Fujioka Award: All Those Sensations in My Belly (Marko Dješka/Croatia)
Honami Yano Award: Mom, Whatʼs up with the Dog? (Lola Lefevre/France)
Audience Award: To be determined by audience vote during the festival
Category: “Adventure in Storytelling” (for films with a unique narrative)
Category Award: Darwinʼs Notebook (Georges Schwizgebel/Switzerland)
Min Tanaka Award: The Blind Writer (Georges Sifianos/Greece)
Yuki Harada Award: My Father's Damn Camera (Milos Tomic/Slovenia)
Sarina Nihei Award: In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-weeny Pocket (Yoko Yuki/Japan)
Audience Award: To be determined by audience vote during the festival
Category: “Visual Poetry” (for poetic films)
Category Award: Archipel (Felix Dufour-Laperriere/Canada)
Ma Jung-Yeon Award: Intermission (Réka Bucsi/Hungary)
Daito Manabe Award: Clockwise (Toni Mitjanit/Spain)
Koji Yamamura Award: Zoon (Jonatan Schwenk/Germany)
Audience Award: To be determined by audience vote during the festival
Category: “The Spark: Films for Children”
Category Award: A Town Called Panic: The Summer Holidays (Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier/France, Belgium)
Kotobuki Shiriagari Award: Spinning (Tzu-Hsin Yang (Cindy Yang)/Taiwan)
Yukiko Hiromatsu Award: Miranda! - El arte de enamorarte (Dante Zaballa/Argentina)
Ryutaro Miyajima Award: In Nature (Marcel Barelli/Switzerland)
Audience Award: To be determined by audience vote during the festival
These are not the full line-ups of the award winners for World Competition. Audience Awards will be selected for all categories.
The winning films in both Competitions (Jury Award and Audience Award) will be eligible for the Grand Prix, which will be selected by the festival's two artistic directors (Koji Yamamura and Shizuka Miyazaki).
The trailer for "Hiroshima Animation Season 2022" is ready!
In addition, a trailer for the first edition of the "Hiroshima Animation Season 2022" is now ready. Koji Yamamura, Shizuka Miyazaki (both artistic directors of the festival), Honami Yano, Ryutaro Miyajima (both members of the festival selection committee), Mahboobeh Kalaee, Nata Metlukh, and Sakura Koretsune (three invited artists of the festivalʼs residence program: H-AIR Hiroshima Artists-in-Residence) performed together in a relay animation based on the festival mascot Carpster. The music is by Hitomi Shimizu, a well-known musician for Koji Yamamura's films. The film is the embodiment of "a film festival created by everyone”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1LNVPM_6hQ
More programs for Hiroshima Animation Season 2022 will be announced soon. Please check our official website, SNS, etc. for more information.
"Hiroshima Animation Season 2022" (August 17-21, 2022) is an international animation film festival to be held as the main program of the Media Arts Division of the "Hiroshima Festival" (August 1-28, 2022), which will be newly launched by the City of Hiroshima in August 2022.
The winners for 5 categories of the World Competition.
The official trailer by 7 animation artists is online.
A new international animation festival Hiroshima Animation Season (August 17-21, 2022), which, as a renewal of Hiroshima International Animation Festival, will be held for the first time this August at JMS Aster Plaza and other venues in Hiroshima City, will offer various programs based on the three sections of Competition, Award, and Academy.
Brand-new award: Golden Carpster, an award focusing on achievement in the Pan-Pacific and Asia!
Today, the festival is pleased to announce the Award section: “Golden Carpstar". This award will be presented to an individual, group, or organization that has made a significant contribution to the field of animation in the Pan-Pacific and Asia region in the two-year period from 2020 to 2021, based on more than 60 pages of the research by more than 20 national and international experts.
For this first edition, the following six individuals or groups were selected as winners. (in alphabetical order in Japanese.)
Kristine Belson (President, Features & Series, Sony Pictures Animation / USA) Motivation for Award: For introducing a new visual style in Hollywood animation with Academy Award®-winning "Spider-Man™: Into the Spider-Verse” and Academy Award®-nominated "The Mitchells vs. the Machines.”
Science SARU (Production Studio / Japan)
Motivation for Award: for its world-wide success with "Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!”, and a new take on telling a history in "Inu-oh" and "The Tale of the Heike".
Joe Hsieh (Animation Director / Taiwan)
Motivation for Award: For his pursuit of the horror/suspense genre, which is rare in animation, and which came to fruition in the animated short "Night Bus," which won many awards including the Grand Prix in the Short Film Competition at Animafest Zagreb.
Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC) (Production Studio, Festival Management, etc. / Iran)
Motivation for Award: For its continuous support of animation expression in Iran for over 30 years including the production of "The Fourth Wall" (directed by Mahboobeh Kalaee), the film that won numerous awards worldwide, including the Grand Prix in the Animation Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival this year.
Feinaki: Beijing Animation Week (Animation Event / China)
Motivation for Award: For connecting the Chinese animation world with the international scene and bringing diversity to the ecosystem of expression through the organization of international animation events and active and steady screening activities.
Yoriko Mizushiri (Animation Director / Japan)
Motivation for Award: For showing a new path for the activities for animation artists in Japan through her recent projects like her VR animation "Otawamure" and her short animation "Anxious Body".
The award ceremony for Golden Carpstar will be held during the Hiroshima Animation Season 2022 Opening Ceremony on August 17. Related programs will also be held during the festival to celebrate the award winners.
What is "Carpstar"? = A creature that is a combination of a carp, which is familiar to Hiroshima citizens, and a twinkling star, and is the mascot character of the Hiroshima Animation Season. Designed by Koji Yamamura, one of the artistic directors of Hiroshima Animation Season.
The international jury members for the Pan-Pacific and Asia Competition are revealed.
“Mitsui Fudosan Realty Chugoku Presents: Hiroshima Animation Season 2022 Competition," which received 2,149 entries from 86 countries and regions between January 7 and February 28 of this year, will feature two competitions: the Pan-Pacific and Asia Competition, which focuses on the discovery of talent from this region, and the World Competition, which competes in five categories for each genre.
The festival is pleased to announce the three international jury members for the Pan-Pacific and Asia Competition.
Florence Miailhe (Animation Director/France), a master of oil painting animation whose first feature animation "The Crossing" won the Jury Distinction at last year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Chris Robinson (Author / Canada), Artistic Director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the largest animation festival in North America, and author of many books on independent animation, and one of the Golden Carpstar winners Joe Hsieh (Animation Director / Taiwan). The three jury members will come to Hiroshima during the festival as a jury member as well as conduct a special program.
The winners of the Pan-Pacific and Asia Competition will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on August 21, the last day of the festival.
The World Competition, Category Award and Juryʼs Personal Pick Award are revealed!
The jury of the World Competition, whose members had been announced earlier, conducted a pre-jury meeting prior to the festival, and the Category Award and the Juryʼs Personal Pick Award are decided.
The World Competition: Category Award
Category: ”Allegories Nowadays” (for fiction-based films)
Category Award: Skinned (Joachim Hérissé/France)
Arthur Binard Award: Confessions of an English Ant-Eater (Alex Crumbie/United Kingdom)
Hiroko Sebu Award: In the Mountains (Wally Chung/United States)
Shizuka Miyazaki Award: Prince in a Pastry Shop (Katarzyna Agopsowicz/Poland)
Audience Award: To be determined by audience vote during the festival
Category: “A Slice of Society” (for animated documentaries and films with social issues)
Category Award: Salvia at Nine (Jang Nari/Korea)
Kiki Sugino Award: The House of Loss (Jinkyu Jeon /Japan, Korea)
Asako Fujioka Award: All Those Sensations in My Belly (Marko Dješka/Croatia)
Honami Yano Award: Mom, Whatʼs up with the Dog? (Lola Lefevre/France)
Audience Award: To be determined by audience vote during the festival
Category: “Adventure in Storytelling” (for films with a unique narrative)
Category Award: Darwinʼs Notebook (Georges Schwizgebel/Switzerland)
Min Tanaka Award: The Blind Writer (Georges Sifianos/Greece)
Yuki Harada Award: My Father's Damn Camera (Milos Tomic/Slovenia)
Sarina Nihei Award: In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-weeny Pocket (Yoko Yuki/Japan)
Audience Award: To be determined by audience vote during the festival
Category: “Visual Poetry” (for poetic films)
Category Award: Archipel (Felix Dufour-Laperriere/Canada)
Ma Jung-Yeon Award: Intermission (Réka Bucsi/Hungary)
Daito Manabe Award: Clockwise (Toni Mitjanit/Spain)
Koji Yamamura Award: Zoon (Jonatan Schwenk/Germany)
Audience Award: To be determined by audience vote during the festival
Category: “The Spark: Films for Children”
Category Award: A Town Called Panic: The Summer Holidays (Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier/France, Belgium)
Kotobuki Shiriagari Award: Spinning (Tzu-Hsin Yang (Cindy Yang)/Taiwan)
Yukiko Hiromatsu Award: Miranda! - El arte de enamorarte (Dante Zaballa/Argentina)
Ryutaro Miyajima Award: In Nature (Marcel Barelli/Switzerland)
Audience Award: To be determined by audience vote during the festival
These are not the full line-ups of the award winners for World Competition. Audience Awards will be selected for all categories.
The winning films in both Competitions (Jury Award and Audience Award) will be eligible for the Grand Prix, which will be selected by the festival's two artistic directors (Koji Yamamura and Shizuka Miyazaki).
The trailer for "Hiroshima Animation Season 2022" is ready!
In addition, a trailer for the first edition of the "Hiroshima Animation Season 2022" is now ready. Koji Yamamura, Shizuka Miyazaki (both artistic directors of the festival), Honami Yano, Ryutaro Miyajima (both members of the festival selection committee), Mahboobeh Kalaee, Nata Metlukh, and Sakura Koretsune (three invited artists of the festivalʼs residence program: H-AIR Hiroshima Artists-in-Residence) performed together in a relay animation based on the festival mascot Carpster. The music is by Hitomi Shimizu, a well-known musician for Koji Yamamura's films. The film is the embodiment of "a film festival created by everyone”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1LNVPM_6hQ
More programs for Hiroshima Animation Season 2022 will be announced soon. Please check our official website, SNS, etc. for more information.
"Hiroshima Animation Season 2022" (August 17-21, 2022) is an international animation film festival to be held as the main program of the Media Arts Division of the "Hiroshima Festival" (August 1-28, 2022), which will be newly launched by the City of Hiroshima in August 2022.
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