Worldwide Animation Film Festival Georama 2014 Lineup Announced - New Michel Gondry Film & More

Independent label CALF has drawn attention by launching the new international animation festival Georama. CALF has put on several animation screening events before, but this will be on a much broader scale.

The first official Georama is planned for autumn 2015. To celebrate the occasion, an early preliminary Georama 2014 festival is being held. It will be held for two weeks from April 12-25 at Kichijoji Baus Theater, which will bring the curtain down on its 30-year run at the end of May this year.

Some of the details about this event have recently been revealed. On April 18 will be the event Special All-Night: Metamorphosis & 3D and on April 25 will be the Ryo Hirano Paradise Wrap-Up Party.

Special All-Night: Metamorphosis & 3D is a collaborative project with the popular event series Metamorphosis Animation Night that CALF began in 2012. In addition to a screening of an experimental 3D film by the Canadian National Film Board (NFB), a screening titled “Mirai Mizue and the Great Abstract Animation War” will also be held of the 35-mm version of Wonder. Also not to be missed is the premiere screening of The Baby Bird of Norman McLaren (co-director: Yukie Nakauchi), a new film made as an homage to the work of Norman McLaren.

The Ryo Hirano Paradise Wrap-Up Party will be the closing event of the festival. Musician Tabito Nanao will join to celebrate Ryou Hirano’s latest film Paradise.

Hirano is taking the lead on the music video for Nanao’s new song “Tele Potion.” With these two friends taking part, guests can look forward to discussions and music performances.

Also gaining attention is the showcase of feature-length animated films not yet released in Japan serving as the main program, which will include screenings of seven new films, including Michel Gondry’s latest animated film Is the Man Who is Tall Happy? which was recently screened at the Tokyo Anime World Festival 2014.

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Source: animeanime
Source article written by Yushi Makari.

Georama mascot, Galaxy Boy © Georama 2014
Georama mascot, Galaxy Boy © Georama 2014
Wonder © 2014 CALF
*Wonder* © 2014 CALF
Paradise © Ryo Hirano / FOGHORN
*Paradise* © Ryo Hirano / FOGHORN
Is the Man Who is Tall Happy? © Partizan
*Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?* © Partizan

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