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Fantasia Int'l Film Fest to Screen World Premiere of Tamala 2030 Anime Film
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The festival describes the film:
With TAMALA 2030: A PUNK CAT IN DARK, the mysterious Japanese writer/composer/director duo K. and kuno, known together as t.o.L (“trees of Life”), have resumed, recalibrated, and resolved their tale of the cutest girl-cat in dystopian Cat Tokyo, suring themselves in their control of the cryptic, complex, and cuddly chaos they've unleashed. The kawaii paradigm of Hello Kitty and Hatsune Miku collides with cabalistic capitalism, cataclysmic prophecy, and the ruptured realities of Lynch, Pynchon, and Philip K. Dick in a deviously dreamlike, metaphysical mind-melt of high-fructose, retro-futuristic, paranoid pop-art brilliance
Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space originally released in Japan in 2002, and had not previously had an English release until California-based distribution company Kentaro Nemoto also designed the characters and handled 2D animation.
The festival will also screen the world premiere of episodes of premiere in Japan in July.
Additionally, the event will screen the North American premiere of the live-action Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist’s Journey (Kakukaku Shikajika). The film opened in Japan on May 16.
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The 29th Fantasia International Film Festival will be held from July 16 through August 3 in Montreal.
The Fantasia International Film Festival's Audience Awards is determined by popular vote from those who attended the film festival. Mononoke The Movie: Phantom in the Rain anime film won bronze for the Best Animated Feature category in 2024.
film won bronze in 2023 in the Best Animated Feature category.
The film festival presents the Axis: won the award in 2023.
Source: Press release
