Updates
Announcing our latest film and our first two guests!
Wednesday the 21 September, 2011 - 6:30PM
We’re pleased to announce we will be hosting the UK Premiere of Sunrise’s theatrical feature ”Armored Troop Votoms: Pailsen Files“.
Chirico Cuvie is a VOTOMS pilot who has an extraordinarily high survival rate. Chrico is assigned to the new Barcoff Squad which is comprised soldiers with similarily high survival rates. The new team is an experiment by the head of the Melkian Department of Intelligence and sent on seemingly impossible missions. Which are meant to test the findings of the infamous Yoran Pailsen.
This will screen in Edinburgh at the Filmhouse only – with the full line-up along with ticket sales to be launched on Friday!
ANNOUNCING OUR FIRST TWO GUESTS:
Ryosuke Takahashi
We are honoured to announce the attendance of one of Sunrise’s most prominent directors too, Ryosuke Takahashi, the director plus original creator of the Votoms universe. Together with character designer Norio Shioyama his work epitomizes much of Sunrise’s work in the 1980s, pioneering the real robot genre, with such noted works as Armored Troop Votoms, Fang of the Sun Dougram and many others. Among his more recent works are Gasaraki, Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto and FLAG.
He will be taking part in a Q+A after his film screening as well as a separate session, for free, on the Sunday morning to discuss his in-depth knowledge of Japanese animation.
Shunsuke Oiji
We are also pleased to welcome one of Sunrise’s planning producers, Shunsuke Oiji, who was involved in Planning for Armored Troop Votoms: Pailsen Files and was Associate Prododucer for Colorful as well – who will also contribute to the Q+A after the Votoms film. The rest of his schedule will be confirmed in due course.
Stay tuned for our Glasgow weekend guests shortly!
Header image is © SUNRISE,
Image of Ryosuke Takahashi is courtesy of Sunrise.
Announcing Letter to Momo!
Monday the 19 September, 2011 - 4:10PM
We’re very proud to announce that fresh out of it’s world premiere at Toronto Film Festival that we’ll be screening the UK premiere of “Letter to Momo” during both weekends of Scotland Loves Anime.
Seven years in the making, A Letter to Momo is a triumph of traditional hand-drawn animation. Clinging to an unfinished letter written by her recently deceased father, Momo learns that the strange and supernatural things happening on Shio Island are connected in some way to her father’s mysterious letter. A sensitive coming-of-age story that deals with loss and imagination.
This also concludes the line-up for our Judges Category (comprising of Letter to Momo, Colourful, Hotarubi no Mori E and Mardock Scramble at least) – which we’ll talk about in more detail shortly.
We have two films left to announce yet for the Edinburgh weekend, which we’ll do very soon along with our guests (of which we have 4, 2 in Glasgow, 2 in Edinburgh)!
TICKETS ON SALE FOR GLASGOW HERE.
Image is © 2012 “A Letter to Momo” Film Partners
Line-up Announced!
Monday the 5 September, 2011 - 5:14PM
Scotland Loves Anime 2011 Line-Up
Scotland Loves Anime is proud to announce the 2011 film festival line-up! We’ll be running events in Glasgow and Edinburgh including 16 anime film screenings, many of which are UK or EU premieres straight from Japan.
Glasgow, October 7th – October 9th
Tekken Blood Vengeance 3D
Interstella 5555
Saturday 8th:
Arrietty (dubbed children’s screening)
Hotarubi no Mori E + 2 Episodes of Related Anime (EU premiere)
Mardock Scramble Parts 1 (Scottish premiere) and 2 (EU premiere)
Sunday 9th:
Escaflowne the Movie (UK premiere, classic screening)
Colorful (UK premiere)
Secret Film – To Be Announced September 12th (UK premiere)
Edinburgh, October 14th – October 16th
MYSTERY FILM – TO BE ANNOUNCED
Coicent/Towanoquon/Five Numbers (UK premiere)
1 x Special Screenings (UK premiere, announcement on September 12th)
Hotarubi no Mori E + 2 Episodes of Related Anime
Colorful
Mardock Scramble Parts 1 and 2
Tekken Blood Vengeance (2D)
1 x Special Screenings (announcement on September 12th)
Edinburgh times on each day to be confirmed soon.
Our films page will be updated with more detail over the next week and tickets will go on sale for both cities in the next two weeks for Scotland Loves Anime 2011. We’re immensely excited about this year’s festival and can’t wait to see you there!
Scotland Loves Anime – 2011
Sunday the 26 June, 2011 - 10:35PM
Scotland Loves Animation is pleased to announce that we will be running Scotland Loves Anime again in October 2011 in both Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The dates have been locked in as follows:
Glasgow: October 7th – 9th 2011
Edinburgh: October 14th – 16th 2011
Coming back with a new range of EU and UK premieres with some classic content mixed in – Scotland Loves Anime aims to not only showcase a range of different works but to add contextualized presentations afterwards.
We’ll be announcing a wave of new elements to the festival, our line-up and guests from mid August onwards – so watch this space from here on out!
PS – thanks to bryoz.co.uk for the lovely new site design to SLA – we’re looking forward to putting it through its paces over the next few months as we get geared up for action!
A BIG THANKS TO OUR 2011 FUNDERS
Scotland Loves Anime 2011 is done and dusted - but we'd like to say a big thank you to our key funders from 2011:
See everyone again in 2012!
