September 16th, 2019 
Jerry Beck 
Animation Is Film has announced the preliminary competition line-up for its third annual edition to take place October 18-20 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The Festival will present a selection of new animated feature films from Asia, Europe, South America and North America, with both juried and audience prizes. Tickets are available for purchase now at animationisfilm.com. The Opening Night feature is Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You. The Closing Night gala will showcase Jeremy Clapin’s I Lost My Body. Shinkai and Clapin doing intro/Q+As at each, respectively.
“Weathering With You”
Other Features in Competion include:
•Bombay Rose (Gitanjali Rao)
•Children of the Sea (Ayumu Watanabe will appear in-person)
•Marona’s Fantastic Tale (director Anca Damian in-person)
•No. 7 Cherry Lane (animator Yonfan will attend in-person)
•Ride Your Wave (Masaaki Yuasa)
•SHe (Shengwei Zhou)
•Swallows of Kabul Elea (filmmaker Elea Gobbe-Mevellec in-person)
•White Snake (Ji Zhao in-person)
Other festival highlights include:
Special Making Of presentations of Frozen 2 (w/ Chris Buck) and Klaus (Sergio Pablos).
Steven Universe on the big screen.
Best of Annecy shorts presentation.
And a new restoration of Marcell Jankovics’ Son of the White Mare.
“Son Of The White Mare”
Animation Is Film aims to fill a gap in the market by establishing the first world class animation festival in the US, with its home in the world capital of filmmaking. The Festival embraces the highest aspirations of animation as a cinematic art form on par with live action filmmaking and will be vocal advocate for filmmakers who push the boundaries of their work to the fullest range of expression that the medium is capable of.
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