Anime Short Wins At Annecy

Japanese animator Kunio Kato’s 12-minute long anime short film “Tsumiki no Ie” (“House of Blocks”) became the second Japanese work to win the Annecy Cristal grand prize for short films at this year’s Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Market, held in Annecy, France. “Tsumiki no Ie” surpassed 45 other international short films to win the coveted Annecy Cristal and a Junior Jury Award. Animator Koji Yamamura’s short film Atama Yama (“Mt. Head”) won the Le Cristal d’Annecy award in 2003.

Anime fans may be most familiar with Kato as the creator of the 2003 “Diary of Tortov Roddle” (Aru Tabibito no Nikki) anime short film.

Source: Anime News Network