The winners of the four-day Tokyo Anime Award Competition 2023 (animefestival.jp/en) have been introduced Monday from the Toshima Civic Heart, revealing the highest feature-length and quick movies chosen from amongst 33 chosen works (4 options, 29 shorts). This 12 months, TAAF acquired 31 function animation submissions from 26 nations and 872 shorts from 63 nations.
For the primary time in three years, TAAF welcomed jurists from each overseas and Japan on the pageant, and judging for the competitors passed off via the screenings on the theatres and the convention on-site to determine the winners in Characteristic Animation and Brief Animation.
Director Alain Ughetto’s stop-motion household historical past No Canines or Italians Allowed (France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal) was awarded each the Grand Prize and the Governor of Tokyo Award within the function movie competitors. The movie premiered at Annecy, and takes viewers again to the start of the twentieth century, because the Ughetto household’s tough life in a small Northern Italian village is modified endlessly when Luigi ventures out throughout the Alps to begin a brand new life in France.
Impressed by the real-life North Pole expedition of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, Italian airship engineer Umberto Nobile and his beloved canine, Titina was honored with the function movie Award of Excellence. The Belgium-Norway co-pro is directed by Kajsa Næss.
The Characteristic Animation Competitors was juried by Fukashi Azuma (Director, AT-X Inc.), Ryuichi Kimura (Director, Japan Animation Creators Affiliation), Cesar Cabral (Director, Bob Spit) and Haery Kim (Journalist, Host of Kim Haery’s Movie Membership podcast).
Each the Grand Prize and the Governor of Tokyo Award of the Brief Animation competitors went to Mexican 2D quick The Borderline by Christian Arredondo Narváez. Dropped at life with modern illustration in a muted desert palette, the piece follows a person and his canine as they cross the desert in quest of La Frontera, a mighty river marking the border with the neighboring territory. With their aim in website, the weary vacationers face a sequence of obstacles earlier than they will courageous the waters.
Further shorts competitors prizes have been introduced to:
- Award of Excellence — The Queen of the Foxes (La Reine des Renards) | Marina Rosset | Switzerland
- Toshima Metropolis Award — Swing to the Moon | Marie Bordessoule, Adriana Bouissie, Nadine De Boer, Elisa Drique, Chloé Lauzu, Vincent Levrero, Solenne Moreau | France
- Greatest Pupil Movie — 3 Gut Street, Fish Island | Moe Wakabayashi | Japan
The Brief Animation Competitors jury comprised Kenji Kodama (Director, Detective Conan TV and movie sequence), Tetsuro Satmoi (President, Liden Movies / Barnum Studio), Charlie Belin (Director, Le Coin) and Elise Labbé (Head of Festivals & Theatrical Screenings, NFB Canada).
