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Summit of the Gods Wins César Award for Best Animated Feature
posted on by Adriana Hazra
The Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma announced the winners of its 47th César Awards on Friday. The -Luxembourg animated won the award for the Best Animated Feature.
rights to the film outside of , Benelux, China, Japan, and Korea. Netflix released the film in select U.S. theaters on November 24 and in select U.K. theaters on November 26. The film then streamed on Netflix on November 30.
The film won in the Best Animation Film category at 's Lumières International Press Awards in January.
Didier Brunner (The Triplets of Belleville, Kirikou and the Sorceress) produced the film. Cartoon Brew describes the film as a 2D/3D hybrid.
The manga is itself an adaptation of Baku Yumemakura's novel. The story follows Fukamachi, an avid wilderness photographer who discovers a link to the past in Kathmandu, Nepal. He finds a camera supposedly belonging to George Mallory, a mountaineer who went missing on Mt. Everest. After meeting Joji Habu, a well-known climber with a ionate drive for the mountain, the two set off to uncover a piece of lost history.
The series ran in ed away on February 11, 2017.
Source: Deadline (Nancy Tartaglione)
