Tag: 2020

  • WOW Festival Collaboration

    WOW Festival Collaboration

    Celebrate International Women’s Day

    Nekoze Kansatsuki – Hikari Yamashita

    To celebrate International Women’s Day 2021, WOW Women’s Film Club invited our festival director Eiko Meredith to hand-pick a selection of animated shorts crafted by up-and-coming female animators working in Japan, and to organise an online Creative Workshop by Japanese animator and illustrator Chie Arai.

    The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘Choose To Challenge‘, so the Kotatsu Festival team have brought together a number of works by up-and-coming female film-makers, all of which are family-friendly and are rated U or PG.

    Date: 13th March 2021
    Watch online for FREE using the WOW Film Festival platform via:

    WOW 2021 on Eventive

    More details in the full article below.

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  • Programme October 2020

    Programme October 2020

    We’re back this October to celebrate our 10th Anniversary, all free, online and live on our YouTube Channel and via Zoom. We’re excited to present four screenings and three Zoom meetings, with four short film programmes featuring award winning film makers and emerging talents from various universities across Japan.

    We are also supporting women in film and production by implementing the F-Rated system. The F-Rating is applied to all films which are directed by women and/or written by women. The rating allows audiences to “vote with your seat” and proactively choose to go and see F-Rated films.

    In partnership with The Japan Foundation London

    Saturday 24th October

    UK time / Japan Time 日本時間
    11:00 am / 19時 Koji Yamamura and Kotatsu Special
    01:00 pm / 21時 Miho Yata ＆Takeshi Yoda Q＆A (Zoom)
    18:00 pm / 2時 (25日) Student Programme 1

    Sunday 25th October

    UK time / Japan Time 日本時間
    12:00 pm / 21時 Chie Arai Animation Workshop (Zoom)
    14:00 pm / 23時 Fusako Yusaki Q＆A (Zoom)
    16:00 pm / 1時 (26日) Student Programme 2
    18:00 pm / 3時 (26日) Koji Yamamura and Kotatsu Special

    Download a programme PDF.

    Full details below

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  • Programme Online 2020

    Programme Online 2020

    We are very proud to present a Kotatsu Special Event, a live YouTube broadcast showcasing talented women from across the Japanese animation industry, with a short film programme presented by animator and director Fusako Yusaki, and featuring works from Miho Yata, Arisa Wakami, Mone Kurita, and female students at Tokyo University of the Arts.

    Saturday 25th July

    Stream 1
    10:30am Pre-Stream Lobby
    11:00am Programme Start
    12:15pm Programme End

    Stream 2
    5:30pm Pre-Stream Lobby
    6:00pm Programme Repeat Start
    7:15pm Programme Repeat End
    This is a full repeat of Stream 1

    All films are in Japanese with English subtitles. The stream is declared safe for children, the equivalent of a U rating in UK cinema. Please be sure to subscribe to our Kotatsu Youtube Channel in advance and click to receive all notifications to be notified when we go live or post any new content.

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