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Message from Festival Director
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Thanks a Million for your cooperation to HIROSHIMA 2014 !!!
See You in HIROSHIMA 2016, from August 18th (Thu.) to 22nd (Mon.), 2016 !!!
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January, 2015
Dear Friends,
On behalf of Hiroshima International Animation Festival, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to your kind and continuing support to our festival.
With your cooperation, we were able to hold our 15th edition HIROSHIMA 2014 with much success, which was our special edition, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the establishment of our festival office in 1984.
It has been our great pleasure to continue and unfold our manifestation ceaselessly for 30 years --- as much as a quarter of the history of animation art.
With this milestone, we would like to embark on a new journey. As a place pursuing everlasting world peace through the promotion of animation art and culture, we would like to make all our efforts to reach another milestone of 40 years, 50 years and more.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. We have to continue making every effort not to forget the tragic memories of the world war which caused us immense damage. To my regret, conflict, warfare and terrorism are occurring frequently in our world.
Under such situation, we believe that the creativity of animation as well as the promotion of cross- cultural exchange through the development of animation art culture will serve as a great power to construct the real world peace. In this belief, we would like to contribute ourselves continuously for the development of animation, an art culture of rich humanity.
We are working hard for the preparation of our next edition, the 16th International Animation Festival in Japan – HIROSHIMA 2016, steadily, step by step.
Our new regulations and entry form will be ready this autumn.
Looking forward to receiving your entries to HIROSHIMA 2016, and hope to welcome you in Hiroshima in August 2016 !!
Sayoko Kinoshita
Festival Director
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February, 2014
Dear Friends,
With your kind cooperation, we are very pleased that the 15th International Animation Festival in Japan – HIROSHIMA 2014 is finally coming up this August.
It will be a milestone, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the foundation of our festival office in 1984. During the 30 years of voyage, we did not always have a smooth sailing. We came through many challenges, and our days were filled with adventure. However, we kept on going ceaselessly, encouraged by many filmmakers and many people supporting us financially as well as in every various aspects. Under the spirit of “Love and Peace”, we were pleased to strive to establish the way of international cross-cultural exchange through the development of animation art medium, and, as a result, this proved that our journey was never a mistake. We, the festival team, renewed our determination to make HIROSHIMA 2014 a fruitful one to take another step forward powerfully for our future.
This summer, we truly hope to be able to celebrate the 30th anniversary with all of you.
Looking forward to your entries and to your participation in HIROSHIMA 2014!
Sayoko Kinoshita
Festival Director
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January, 2014
Dear Friends,
Happy New Year 2014!
It is the year of our 15th edition, HIROSHIMA 2014.
Since the establishment of our festival office in 1984, we have been pleased to walk together with you all the way for 30 years.
With our sincere gratitude to your ceaseless support, we hope to be able to celebrate the anniversary with all of you this August.
Looking forward to your entries and to your participation in HIROSHIMA 2014!
Sayoko Kinoshita
Festival Director
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October, 2013
Dear Friends,
With your kind cooperation, we are very pleased to announce that the 15th International Animation Festival in Japan – HIROSHIMA 2014 will be held from August 21st to 25th next summer.
It will be our special edition, commemorating its 30th anniversary of the establishment of our festival office in 1984 organizing the very first festival HIROSHIMA '85. Since then, we have been very fortunate to be able to continue and unfold our manifestation ceaselessly till today. This is entirely due to your generous and powerful support for the development of animation art medium, and to the tireless challenge and effort made by animation filmmakers responding to such support.
When we prepared for the first festival, facsimile was not yet popular, and we used postal mail, telex and telegram to contact filmmakers. We can say that the history of our festival just parallels with that of computerization. In the past three decades, computer technology has developed enormously to become a convenient tool for our everyday life as well as for animation filmmaking.
On the other hand, we still continue to kill each other somewhere in the world, and we are harming each other as a means to solve problems.
Under the spirit of "Love and Peace", shared by Hiroshima City and ASIFA, we will earnestly continue to organize our Hiroshima International Animation Festival, pursuing the realization of world peace based on cross-cultural exchange through the development of animation art medium.
We are looking forward to receiving your entries to HIROSHIMA 2014, and hope to welcome you in Hiroshima next August!
Sincerely yours,
Sayoko Kinoshita
Festival Director
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February, 2013
Dear Friends,
On behalf of Hiroshima International Animation Festival, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to your kind support to our festival.
The second spring is about to come since the disaster of the Eastern Japan earthquake and the tsunami in 2011. It will still be a very, very long way for us to accomplish the reconstruction, and we have to continue to confront and to deal with various hardships caused by the menace of the natural world as well as the nuclear plant disaster.
Under such situation, we believe that the distinguished creativity of art and culture will enhance our philosophical spirit to live through the complex contemporary world positively, and that it will also serve as a great power to construct the real world peace. In this belief, we would like to contribute ourselves continuously for the development of animation --- an art culture of rich humanity.
The 15th International Animation Festival in Japan - HIROSHIMA 2014 will be our 30th anniversary festival.
We are making every effort for the preparation, step by step, toward August 2014.
Looking forward to receiving your entries to HIROSHIMA 2014, and hope to welcome you in Hiroshima in August 2014!!!
Sayoko Kinoshita
Festival Director
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