Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival

Day 1 - Friday November 26th

10:00　Ponyo　Feature Film Screening (Suitable for Children)
Followed immediately by: Film Literacy Workshop with 3 Schools

Teacher: Matt Beere - Chapter Arts Centre Education Officer
In association with Reel Education

18:00 - 20:00     Festival Opening Celebration at the ATRiuM

Short film screenings - Japanese short animations, lasting approximately 1hr.
Introduced by:
Midoriko Hayashi - organises independent animation screenings in Japan.
Tetsuji Kurashige - university lecturer and independent film maker. 
         
Day 2 - Saturday November 27th    Japanese Marketplace
           
11:00　Ponyo　Feature Film Screening (Suitable for Children)

15:00　Ponyo　Feature Film Screening (Suitable for Children)
Introduced by Mrs Eiko Meredith, Festival Director.

18:00　Barry Purves Masterclass
Barry Purves will talk about the making of his Japanese themed animation entitled "Screenplay", his current works, and his newest book "Basics Animation: Stop-Motion".  More info on the masterclass page.
Guest speaker: Barry Purves

Interviewer: Tim Allen - stopmotion animator
Followed by Book Signing

 

Day 3 - Sunday November 28th    Japanese Marketplace
14:00 - 16:00     Japanese Themed Cardmaking Workshop
Teacher: Vanessa Feuillade, from Inspired Bliss.
14:30 - 17:00　Short Film Screenings

Film presentations with panel discussion, featuring the first episode of Samurai Champloo, together with

    * Fumiko's Confession (Hiroyasu Ishida)
    * She and her Cat (Makoto Shinkai)
    * Loop Pool (Daiki Aizawa)
    * Kni-Train (Miho Yata)
    * Origami Butterfly (Shigeru Okada)
    * The Demon (Shin Hosakawa)
    * The Mechanism of Spring (Atsushi Wada)
    * Tegwon Rhapsody (Kenichiro Mizuno)
    * Traces of Other (Daisuke Nagaoka)

Guest speakers:
Midoriko Hayashi - organises independent animation screenings in Japan.
Tetsuji Kurashige - university lecturer and independent film maker.

Followed by: Raffle Prize Draw

18:00　Summer Wars - Feature Film Screening (PG)  Submitted for Oscar Nomination!

 

This is the Welsh première of the 2009 anime science fiction film, which focuses on a timid eleventh-grade math genius who has been falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world and must prevent the real and computer-simulated worlds from colliding. It was produced by the Japanese animation studio Madhouse and directed by Mamoru Hosoda.

 

Admission:
Before 5pm:   Full  £3.50 (£3), Concs £3.50 (£2), Card £3.50 (£2)

From 5pm:     Full  £6.60 (£6), Concs £4.80 (£4.5), Card £4.30 (£4)

Any questions please ask Chapter box office