Kohei Kadowaki's feature We Are Aliens won the Anima't Award for best feature-length film at the 59th Sitges Film Festival, after taking Ottawa's Grand Prize the previous month. The film opened in Japan on September 25.
Kohei Kadowaki's first feature, We Are Aliens, has moved through festivals and into theaters. The film premiered at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight and screened at Annecy, where Kadowaki discussed its hybrid rotoscoping approach and the five years spent developing it with a mostly inexperienced animation team. It opened in Japan on September 25, following Tsubasa, a shy boy, and Akitaro, a class idol, across a 30-year friendship in a rural Heisei-era town.
Kadowaki was born in 1996 and wrote and directed the film. He has said roughly 20 to 30 percent of its episodes come from his own experience, including a first-love episode. The festival run then produced two feature prizes: Ottawa's Grand Prize, and, at the 59th Sitges Film Festival in Catalonia, the Anima't Award for best feature-length film.
The Sitges win places Kadowaki among Japanese directors who have taken that award. Yuta Murano's Seven Days War won six years before, following Makoto Shinkai's your name. in 2016 and Mamoru Hosoda's Mirai in 2018. Kadowaki, who turned 30 on October 14, is the youngest Japanese director to win it.
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Kohei Kadowaki and NOTHING NEW's We Are Aliens won the Anima't Award for best feature-length film at the 59th Sitges Film Festival in Catalonia. It is the first Japanese film to take the award since Yuta Murano's Seven Days War six years ago; Makoto Shinkai's your name. won in 2016 and Mamoru Hosoda's Mirai in 2018. Kadowaki, who turned 30 on October 14, is the youngest Japanese director to win it.
Director Kohei Kadowaki's feature "We Are Aliens" opens September 25, following Tsubasa, a shy boy, and Akitaro, a class idol, across a 30-year friendship in a rural Heisei-era town. Kadowaki, born in 1996, wrote and directed the film. He says roughly 20 to 30 percent of its episodes come from his own experience, including a first-love episode.
Director Kohei Kadowaki discusses his debut feature 'We Are Aliens,' which premiered at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight and screens at Annecy. The film follows two boys over 20 years and uses a hybrid rotoscoping approach to capture natural movement, developed over five years with a mostly inexperienced animation team.
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