Anime Cine Experience - Animation Film Festival

Anime Cine Experience - Animation Film Festival

Cine Darbaar, in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan, Directorate of Film Festivals, Japan Foundation, is organizing a 3-day Animation film festival.

It's the first time that a festival will be celebrating Japanese-Anime, Manga (Comics) and Pop-culture in India. Anime Cine Experience will be bringing the great anime works of Japan with films like The Girl who leapt through time, Grave of the fireflies, 5cm per second, Voices of Distant Star, The Place Promised in Our Early Days. In its inaugural edition the festival will showcase Japanese comics, anime serial, short film competitions, pop-culture exhibitions.

To give the audience a wider understanding of Anime, the festival will have workshops and special discussions will be conducted by one of the emerging game designers in India, Mr. Shubham Mauria, on the topic of The Relation of Anime and Its Avatars in Popular Culture in Relation to Japanese Gaming and Beyond. While Mr. Kshitiz Anand will be conducting 'A workshop on animation with focus on Japan and its relation to world animation, ideas on 3D & 2D and the basic animation market'.

Apart from these workshops, festival is also organizing a short-film competition. All the entries will run in a loop on Plasma TV in the Siri Fort auditorium lobby, which will be available for viewing by all the attendees of the festival. Short Anime corner will screen the 10 best short films and the top three films will be awarded. The festival will also have an exhibition of Manga (Japanese comics in English) along with a photography exhibition on Japan.

Cine Darbaar's sister organization- Indian Auteur, a film journal will be publishing a special issue on Anime for the festival with the help of Japan Foundation. The issue will cover articles on directors like Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Oshii, and anime series like ghost in the shell, beck, death note. Indian Auteur is the only web journal existing in India writing extensively on Indian and world cinema. With the special Anime issue Indian Auteur will be going print in August and can be subscribed by all educational institutes as well as culture centers.