Mamoru Hosoda's 'Mirai' To Screen at Cannes Film Festival in Directors' Fortnight Section
NEW YORK (April 17, 2018) - GKIDS, the acclaimed producer and distributor of animation for adult and family audiences, announced that the animated feature MIRAI from Japan's Studio Chizu will screen at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section. The film is written and helmed by Mamoru Hosoda, the celebrated director behind The Boy and The Beast, Wolf Children, Summer Wars, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. GKIDS will release the film theatrically this fall.
GKIDS' titles previously appearing in Director's Fortnight at Cannes include Ernest & Celestine, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, and My Life as a Zucchini, all of which went on to become Best Animated Feature Academy Award® nominees for the company.
MIRAI follows a young boy named KUN who feels forgotten by his family when his little sister Mirai arrives. Running away from home, KUN stumbles upon a magical garden that serves as time-travelling gateway where he encounters his mother as a little girl and has a series of adventures with his baby sister all grown up, opening up a new perspective on his world.
ABOUT GKIDS
GKIDS is a producer and distributor of award-winning feature animation for both adult and family audiences. Since 2010, the company has scored an astounding ten Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations with The Secret of Kells in 2010, A Cat in Paris and Chico & Rita in 2012, Ernest & Celestine in 2014, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and Song of the Sea in 2015, Boy and the World and When Marnie Was There in 2016, My Life as a Zucchini in 2017, and The Breadwinner in 2018. GKIDS also handles North American distribution for the famed Studio Ghibli library of films, one of the world's most coveted animation collections with titles Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke and others. GKIDS recently launched ANIMATION IS FILM, an annual LA-based film festival. ANIMATION IS FILM embraces the highest aspirations of animation as a cinematic art form and is a 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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ABOUT STUDIO CHIZU
Studio Chizu is the animation studio and Director Mamoru Hosoda's headquarters that was established in 2011. Director Hosoda gave the studio its name, Chizu ("map" in Japanese). There is a long history of animation films, but there are still unexplored motifs and themes with limitless possibilities. Be self-reliant and determined with a spirit of challenge like adventurers setting sail out to the big seas toward a frontier of possibilities. And to discover a new continent of movies that nobody has ever seen before and to draw a new map on that uncharted land. The name of the studio embodies this philosophy.
Studio Chizu is a place that embraces Director Hosoda's thoughts and philosophies on movies and is his works themselves.
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