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Winnipeg Animation Fest to Screen Summer Wars, Shorts
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Canada's "Plastic Paper: Winnipeg Festival of Animated, Illustrated and Puppet Film" will screen several Japanese-animated shorts and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time), from May 5 to May 8.
Summer Wars follows a modern-day family on a midsummer adventure in the real and virtual worlds. The film Hawaii International Film Festival. Summer Wars will screen in Winnipeg on May 8 at 7:00 p.m.
On May 5, the festival will host a screening of shorts from 13 Japanese animators and puppeteers, including Akino Kondoh.
Todd Brown, one of the organizers of the festival, said that "it was a pretty complicated process to obtain [Summer Wars] — we had to coordinate with companies in both the U.S. and Japan." The British anime distributor release Summer Wars in September.
Source: Uptown Magazine
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