Millennium Actress to Premier at BAAF

The Big Apple Anime Fest has announced that producer Taro Maki will introduce an American sneak preview screening of DreamWorks Pictures’ award-winning film Millennium Actress at the convention. The screening will be followed by a question and answer session with Mr. Maki.

Directed by renowned anime director Satoshi Kon, Millennium Actress is a compelling romance/adventure where fantasy and reality fuse together. The story is set in Japan, where Genya, a director, is hired to film a documentary about the legendary Chiyoko Fujiwara, a superstar actress who 30 years earlier abruptly ended her career and vanished from the limelight. Genya becomes obsessed with this fallen star, determined to unravel the truth behind her mysterious disappearance. The result is a passionate, timeless homage to history and cinema.

Millennium Actress, which recently became the first anime picture acquired by DreamWorks Pictures, has received wide critical acclaim since its debuted at the 2001 Fantasia Film Festival, where it was named Best Animated Film. The film also received the Fantasia Ground-Breaker Award for Artistic Innovation, and was recently named the Media Arts Festival Grand Prize by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. Millennium Actress was also the first recipient of the Sitges Orient Express Award spotlighting Asian genre films.