{"id":128037,"date":"2025-07-07T13:22:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T20:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=128037"},"modified":"2025-07-07T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T20:22:49","slug":"yasuhiro-aokis-chao-anime-film-to-screen-at-ottawa-international-animation-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/07\/07\/yasuhiro-aokis-chao-anime-film-to-screen-at-ottawa-international-animation-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasuhiro Aoki\u2019s ChaO Anime Film to Screen at Ottawa International Animation Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Ottawa International Animation Festival announced last week that the mermaid-human romance anime film <\/span>ChaO<\/span><\/i><\/a> will screen and compete for the \u201cGrand Prize for Feature Animation\u201d category, along with four other animated films from several countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The grand prize winner will be determined by a distinguished jury and announced live at the OIAF awards ceremony on September 27, 2025, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. The festival will run in Ottawa, Canada from September 24, 2025 to September 28, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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ChaO <\/span><\/i>will compete as the lone film representing Japan. It previously premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival last month, where it also <\/span>won the \u201cJury Award\u201d<\/span><\/a> in the Feature Film category. The film will also be screened at the JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film on its opening night in New York City on July 10, 2025, as well as the 29th Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada on July 27, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yasuhiro Aoki<\/b> (<\/span>Psycho-Pass: The Movie<\/span><\/i> co-character designer, <\/span>SAMURAI NOODLES<\/span><\/i> \u201cTHE ORIGINATOR\u201d unit director et al.) is directing the anime film, with<\/span> Hirokazu Kojima<\/b> (<\/span>Shoka, More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers<\/span><\/i> ending design and animation) as character designer and animation director, and <\/span>Hiroshi Takiguchi<\/b> (<\/span>Weathering With You<\/span><\/i>) as background art director. <\/span>Studio 4\u00b0C<\/b> is in charge of the animation production.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the anime film\u2019s main voice cast stars:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n