Mr.Koji YAMAMURA takes up his post as a Program Super visor of TAAF2014

January 4, 2014

One of the greatest and most well known a Japanese independent animator Mr. Koji YAMAMURA takes up his post as a Program Super Visor of Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2014.

He is leading Japanese independent animation world.  Also he is known as a professor of  Tokyo Geidai  “graduate school of film and new media Tokyo University of the Art”. Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2014 is going to grow up  as a biggest animation film festival in Japan. It is sure that his role makes a great effect for that.

About his animation film works, two of his most famous and acclaimed films are the Academy Award for Animated Short Film-nominated and Cristal d’Annecy-winning Mt. Head^[1] And the Ottawa Grand Prize and Ōfuji Noburō Award-winning A Country Doctor. His 2011 short film Muybridge’s Strings was one of five animated shorts nominated for Genie Award.^[2]

Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor & Other Fantastic Films by Koji Yamamura
カフカ 田舎医者 [DVD]

Koji Yamamura Film Works
Mt. Head, Pieces, A House, The Sandwiches, Imagination, Kipling Jr., Kid’s Castle, Bavel’s Book, Your Choice!, Japanese-English Pictionary, Perspectiven box and Aquatic
「頭山」山村浩二作品集 [DVD]

Muybridge’s Strings
マイブリッジの糸 Blu-ray