Japan Media Arts Festival Overseas Promotion project supported by the Agency of Cultural Affairs- Government of Japan, will take part physically as an exhibitor in this world leading animation market, Mifa, to showcase Japan Media Arts Festival’s award-winning animation works. Based on our curatorial theme, we are featuring Japanese female directors, animators, screenwriters and artistic directors who are active at the forefront of animation production. We have also invited a Japanese animation director and a producer to join us at Annecy to take part in our screening event and talk session held at Mifa campus.

Curatorial theme:
Inspired and Audacious: Women Creators in Japanese Animation

Presented by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Director: OKAMOTO Mitsuko (Producer / Vice President, Tokyo University of the Arts / Professor, Department of Animation, Postgraduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts)
Co-director: SEKI Hiromi (Producer, TOEI ANIMATION CO., LTD.), WAKAMI Arisa (Animation Artist / Associate Professor, Tokyo Zokei University)

◆ Festival Details
https://jmaf-promote.jp/en/festival/annecy_2022/

◆ Creator’s File – Animation
https://jmaf-promote.jp/en/creators_file/animation/2022/

◆ Screening Program
https://jmaf-promote.jp/en/screening_program/animation2022/