Los Angeles Anime Film Festival (LA-AFF) Returns to Downtown L.A. this September

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (July 26, 2018) — Los Angeles Anime Film Festival (LA-AFF) is proud to announce its second annual festival to take place at Regal L.A. Live: A Barco Innovation Center from September 21 to 23. The festival will feature a full list of events in addition to the film screenings including an opening night red carpet gala and Q&A sessions with directors, voice actors, and film creators to further excite festival-goers.

 

Tickets for LA-AFF 2018 is scheduled to go on sale starting in mid-August. Details will be available at a later date on the official website (www.la-aff.com).

Highlights of LA-AFF 2018:

 

• For their opening night on Friday, September 21, the festival will host the North American premiere of Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions the Movie: Take on Me, the highly anticipated feature since its series finale in 2014.
• In remembrance of the legendary animator and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata, the festival will feature these following 5 films throughout the weekend: Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Pom Poko, My Neighbors the Yamadas, and The Tale of Princess Kaguya.
• The festival will screen all three animated feature films by the critically acclaimed director Masaaki Yuasa which are Mind Game, Night is Short, Walk on Girl, and Lu Over the Wall.
• LA-AFF will host the North American premiere of Shonen Hollywood: Holly Stage For You Complete Edition free of charge to all festival-goers. This animation project has raised over $700k from over 3000 fans on the Japanese crowdfunding site, “Makuake”, which is the most funds raised out of any anime and manga projects on this site. Ikuyo Hashiguchi, the original author of the title will be present at the festival for a special Q&A session.
• The global phenomenon, Your Name., returns to the big screen at this year’s LA-AFF for fans to re-experience Director Makoto Shinkai’s dramatic masterpiece.
• Fan who are eagerly awaiting the new installment of the Evangelion film franchise in 2020 can watch all three films leading up to it at this year’s LA-AFF.

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