Nominated for the official feature films category competition.
Opened in 1995, the SICAF is the main animation festival of Korea. Supported by the municipality of Seoul and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Animation markets from all over the world gather at this major event featuring an animation festival, a film market, and exhibitions seen by more than 150,000 visitors.
The official competition features more than 1000 works from 54 countries and NITABOH is nominated among the last 5 finalists.
The five finalists are :
(1) Fireball by WANG Toon (Taiwan)
(2) Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa by Seiji MIZUSHIMA (Japan)
(3)Immigrants by Gabor CSUPO (USA/Korea)
(4) NITABOH, The Founder of Tsugaru Shamisen by Akio Nishizawa (Japan)
(5) Pettson and Findus - The Tomte Machine by Jorgen LERDAM and Anders SORENSEN (Germany, Denmark, Sweden)
Lyon Asian Film Festival (November 7th through 14th, 2005)
Lyon Asian Film Festival has developed as one of the most important events introducing Asian movies and cultures.
The highly-valuedfestival was covered by 50 mass media and gathered many audiences from all over France. For its 11th edition this year, the festival presented more than 60 films submitted from Asian countries.
"NITABOH" won the first prize of "the Public Award for Best Animated Film."
REEL 2 REAL International Film Festival for Youth, welcoming their 7th year this year, has committed to featuring great international movies to a young audience since its start from 1999. The festival is composed of two main sections: “Professional Jury Award” and “Youth Jury Awards.” This year “NITABOH” won “Best Picture Youth Jury Award,” chosen by the youth jury from age 9 to 12.
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NITABOH's Screening by an Official Invitation
Founded in 1987 and opening this year its 19th edition, the Singapore International Film Festival is one of the leading film festivals in Asia.
The festival aims to promote a film as an artistic medium and actively screens outstanding, non-commercial films and new age films. The seminars and workshops are also organized by professionals to promote Asian films to the world. Every year, more than 300 films from about 45 countries submit to the festival.
This year, "NITABOH" will be officially screened in an Asian Anime section.
Official Invitation and Screening
This festival is one of the most important Italian event, exhibiting new technologies used in animation movies, special effects and video games. Every year famous film directors and art directors bring their new works to the festival. In 2005, they welcomed their 7th year with 440 works presented and the number of the visitors totaled 3 million during the 5-day festival. "NITABOH" is invited to the 8th festival and will be presented with other great works from all over the world.
Official Invitation to the Director and Official Movie Screening
The festival aims to present films that entertain and educate children.
It will feature problems faced by today's youth and promotes stylish, superb films from the world to increase artistic awareness and humanity of the audience.
"NITABOH" will be officially screened in "Asian Panorama" section as one of the best films produced in Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.
Director Nishizawa has been officially invited to attend the festival, where his film "NITABOH" will be screened at.
Official Invitation to the Director and Official Movie Screening
MOFFOM is an international music film festival presenting over 120 audiovisual works and welcoming the participation of more than 30 international guests from the worlds of film and music. The festival introduces music-oriented feature films, documentaries, short films and the latest music videos. As the festival is non-competitive, it is an honor to be officially invited to and screened at MOFFOM. NITABOH, as well as its director Akio Nishizawa, received the official invitation from MOFFOM. The screening was a big success, gaining great popularity from the audience.
The world's largest broadcaster "CCTV(China Central Television)" will televise NITABOH!
The world’s largest broadcaster with over 800 million viewers, “CCTV (China Central Television)”, decided to broadcast “HITABOH” on TV.
Annually, more than 200 Japanese films are gathered in the market, and only 2 films are selected to broadcast. Our “NITABOH” is the one of the films selected in 2010!
