We Are Aliens Takes Kau Ka Hoku Award at Hawai'i International Film Festival
Kōhei Kadowaki and NOTHING NEW's We Are Aliens won the Kau Ka Hōkū (Shooting Star) Award at the 46th Hawai'i International Film Festival in Waikiki on Sunday. The award honors an international filmmaker's first or second feature.
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Why it matters
The Hawai'i prize adds to a run of festival awards for a film whose director wrote, planned, storyboarded, and edited it himself, which gives NOTHING NEW and Miyu Productions a second festival circuit to work after the Japanese release.
Key Facts
- We Are Aliens won the Kau Ka Hōkū (Shooting Star) Award at the 46th Hawai'i International Film Festival in Waikiki on Sunday.
- The award honors an international filmmaker's first or second feature.
- Kōhei Kadowaki served as planner, scriptwriter, director, storyboard artist, and editor on the film.
- We Are Aliens opened in Japan on September 15.
- Ottawa International Animation Festival gave the film its Grand Prize for Animated Feature last month.
The film opened in Japan on September 15 and has also screened at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, Annecy, Melbourne, New Zealand, and Busan.
The Kau Ka Hōkū Award is reserved for an international filmmaker's first or second feature, and the Hawai'i festival handed it to We Are Aliens on Sunday in Waikiki. The film has already moved through Cannes' Directors' Fortnight on May 14 and Annecy's competition, and it screened at Melbourne, New Zealand, and Busan before the Hawai'i run. Ottawa gave it the Grand Prize for Animated Feature last month, and Sitges gave it the Anima't Award earlier this month. Kadowaki handled planning, script, direction, storyboards, and editing; Yaffle composed the music.
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- Anime News Network We Are Aliens Film Wins Award at Hawai'i Int'l Film Festival