Animation Division
Award
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Excellence Award
Legend of the Millennium Dragon
KAWASAKI Hirotsugu (Director)
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Excellence Award
A Letter to Momo
OKIURA Hiroyuki
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Excellence Award
Muybridge's Strings
YAMAMURA Koji
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Excellence Award
Folksongs & Ballads
Mathieu VERNERIE / Pauline DEFACHELLES / Rémy PAUL
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New Face Award
The Tender March
UEKUSA Wataru
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New Face Award
Rabenjunge
(Raven Boy)Andrea DEPPERT
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New Face Award
rain town
ISHIDA Hiroyasu
Jury Selections
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Heart and Yummie
FUJIMORI Masaya
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We still do not know the name of the flower we saw that day
NAGAI Tatsuyuki (Directer)/ OKADA Mari (Script) / TANAKA Masayoshi (Charactor Design)
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Hanasaku Iroha
ANDO Masahiro
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mawaru-penguindrum
IKUHARA Kunihiko
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Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
IMAISHI Hiroyuki
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STEINS;GATE
SATO Takuya / HAMASAKI Hiroshi
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TIGER & BUNNY
Sunrise Inc. OZAKI Masayuki (Representive) / SATO Keiichi (Director) / NISHIDA Masafumi (Series Coordinator)
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Uncapturable Ideas
OKUDA Masaki
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greeum
KIM Hakhyun
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Sing in my own way
SUGIMOTO Kousuke
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Someday
NANKE Koji
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HOLIDAY
HIRANO Ryo
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Promises
KONO Aki
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youkosobokudesu
©himeda manabu
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Animation Hotline
Dustin GRELLA
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BONNIE
OKAMOTO Masanori
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Das Haus (The House)
David BUOB
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Garden
SUZUKI Shungo
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Helsingin kesä (Summer in Helsinki)
Maria BJÖRKLUND / Maria PALAVAMÄKI / Salla HÄMÄLÄINEN / Black Motor (music) / Risto
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Herr Hoppe und der Atommüll (Herr Hoppe and the Nuclear Waste)
Jan LACHAUER / Thorsten LÖFFLER
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many go round
NAKANISHI Yoshihisa
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MODERN No.2
MIZUE Mirai
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Omerta
Nicolas LOUDOT / Fabrice FITENI / Arnaud JANVIER / Gaspard ROCHE
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PLUG, THe NeW WORLD
GODA Tsuneo
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Romance
Georges SCHWIZGEBEL
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Scripta volant
ORIKASA Ryo
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SPOTS SPOTS
HU Yuanyuan
Jury Critiques
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Head of the Jury
FURUKAWA Taku
Animation Creator
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ITO Yuichi
Animation Director
Becoming an art festival that nurtures talent and sends it out to the world
This year's was a challenging screening process for two reasons. The first was the inconsistency of the viewing conditions employed -- the need to review an enormous number of works using a variety of media formats. This is a situation born of our transitional age and its mix of web-based submissions, expected to further increase in the years to come, with DVD and Blu-ray media. The second is the …
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SUGII Gisaburo
Animation Director
An annual evolution of expressive techniques
This was the first time in the 15 years of the Japan Media Arts Festival that I was able to serve as a member of the jury. Rarely being able to come into contact with such a broad range of the animation work being produced today, I found the opportunity most appealing. Most of all, I had hoped that I might be able to draw some creative energy from the work of so many active animators. In the last …
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OSHII Mamoru
Film Director
Among perfect copies, strong stories stand out
There was a conspicuous trend among television series: a strangely large proportion was adapted from original works and executed in a way that suggests they must have been trying to copy those works exactly. Furthermore, their subjects were images of daily life from beginning to end, no longer needing dramatic developments or structure; they shared a tendency toward thinner narratives. …
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HIKAWA Ryusuke
Animation Critic
Anime that generates the power to surpass reality
We are at a watershed moment for the culture of animation. Television has switched completely to digital terrestrial broadcasting and cinemas are also shifting to digital projection. With the decline of analog elements in our audio-visual environment has come the digital diffusion -- both legal and illegal-- of work around the world. On the other hand, this intensification of consumption has made …
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To create works of animation that draw in the world
How did the jury approach the selection process in the animation division?Before we even began screening works, in the animation division we agreed that each jury member would work from his own individual selection criteria. In my case, I decided to base my evaluation strictly on how interesting a work was, taking an agnostic stance in weighing story and plot against expression and style, and …