ANIMA BRUSSELS FESTIVAL TURNS 30! 4 through 13 March, 2011
This year Anima Brussels (4 through 13 March 20) pulled out all the stops to celebrate the festival’s 30th Anniversary. In addition to the seven programs of World Shorts in competition and numerous feature films in and out of competition, there was an outstanding roster of who’s who from the world of animation.
Kari-gurashi no Arrietty (The Borrowers), directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, was produced by the famed Japanese Studio Ghibli. The characters were based on the beloved series of English children’s books by Mary Norton. The first book, published in 1952, won the Carnegie Medal and in 2007 was named to the list of the ten most important children’s books of the past 70 years by the Carnegie Medal judges.