Anime News Service - Largest Asian Film Festival In Europe To Feature Animation Caveats

Anime Ecyclopedia co-scribe Jonathan Clements has written in informing us that the largest Asian film festival in Europe, the Far East Film Fest will this year be featuring a retrospective on Chinese animation curated by the writer himself. The website, featuring essays in Italian and English on all the major areas can be found at the above link. Accroding to Jonathan

"It's something of a coup to have Princess Iron Fan, the film that kick-started the anime business after its release in wartime Tokyo -- made in occupied Shanghai, it convinced the Japanese Navy that there might be some future in animation, leading to the funding of the first anime feature. It also inspired the young Osamu Tezuka in his choice of career. Of particular interest to Miyazaki fans is Grandma and her Ghosts, made in the wake of the Taiwanese release of My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service.

Below are the main attraction features:

CHINESE ANIMATION 1941-2001
Princess Iron Fan (Wan Laiming & Wan Guchan, 1941)
Princess Hibiscus (Huang Yu, 1957)
Uproar in Heaven (Wan Laiming & Tang Cheng, 1961-65)
Nezha Conquers the Dragon King (Various, 1979)
A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation (Andrew Chan, 1997)
Grandma and her Ghosts (Wang Shaudi, 1998)
My Life as McDull (Toe Yuen, 2001) *

One can view Jonathan's column at http://www.uk.scifi.com/anime.htm and information on co-written project, The Anime Encyclopedia at the link.

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