posted on by Anita Tai
Festival ran from October 25-29
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South Korea’s Bucheon International Animation Festival announced its winners for the 2024 festival on Tuesday, which include honors for the Fureru., trapezium, and Gridman Universe films.
The festival awarded trapezium with the Special Distinction Award and Gridman Universe with the Audience Prize. Fureru. won the Korean Society of Cartoon and Animation Studies (KOSCAS) President’s Prize, the DHL Diversity Prize, as well as the Kinolights Prize.
Three Japanese short films also competed in the festival, including:
- Michiko Soma’s “Maidens of the Ripples”
- Koji Yamamura’s “Extremely Short”
- Ryo Orikasa’s “Miserable Miracle”
Maho Takagi‘s “Scent of First Love” (“Hatsukoi no Nioi”) short animation and Tatsuya Ishihara‘s Sound! Euphonium 3, the anime franchise’s third season, competed in the “TV&Commissioned Film” category.
Bucheon International Animation Festival took place from October 25-29 at Bucheon City Hall, Korea Manhwa Museum, CGV Bucheon, Bucheon Arts Center, Webtoon Complex Center-Bucheon. The festival describes its goal:
Animation Film Festival with general competition section, which includes feature films, short films, graduation films, Korean short films, TV&Commissioned films. The festival is to spread the true charm of animation genre and to grow as an expert animation film festival in Asia.
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko, Studio 4°C‘s anime film of Kanako Nishi‘s Gyokō no Nikuko-chan (Nikuko of the Fishing Harbor) novel, won the Korean Society of Cartoon and Animation Studies (KOSCAS) President’s Prize in the Special Awards category, and Masaaki Yuasa‘s INU-OH, the musical anime feature film of Hideo Furukawa‘s Heike Monogatari: INU-OH no Maki (Tales of the Heike: INU-OH) novel, won the Special Distinction Prize in the International Competition – Feature Film category at the festival in 2021. In addition, Yoriko Mizushiri’s “Anxious Body” (“Fuan na Tai”) short won the Special Distinction Prize in the International Competition – Short Film category.
Source: Bucheon International Animation Festival’s official website