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The Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema

I wish this existed when I lived there, but the Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario is shaping up to be one heckuva yearly event. This year the festival boasts:

  • A restored 35mm screening of German film Die Abenteurer des Prinzen Achmed, the earliest surviving animated feature, including a live performance of a new score by its composers
  • The only Canadian stop for a presentation of Grave of the Fireflies, also on 35mm, that includes a panel discussion by noted anime scholars; FREE to the public, in support of charity. The next stop for this programme is at the Smithsonian and Boston Museum of Fine Arts where it will only be shown on DVD.
  • Canadian/North American premieres of top anime films including Evangelion 1.0
  • Four animated features made by just one person each,including the critically acclaimed Sita Sings The Blues; director/animators of two of the four features will be in attendance

As Joseph from the festival says, “This is the only public film festival in the world specifically for animated feature films, and we’ve got lots of them.”

Previously:
Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema, 2005
Sita Sings the Blues