Kyodo News (via Yahoo! Asia) reports on Belgium’s “Anima 2005” film festival, where Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle opened, and a special retrospective on South Korean animé, like Oseam, will also be featured. “‘For a long time Korea was seen as a place where Europeans could make their cartoons in a cheap way,’ the festival director, Philip Moins, told Kyodo News. ‘When slowly the makers found an even cheaper place in China, Korea started to develop its own animé. We picked up the idea to pay more attention to Korean animé at France’s Annency International Festival, where Sung Gang Lee’s Mari Iyagi won the top prize (in 2003). Korean films [should] earn more attention than they get now. They have their own style. We hope to be helping changing that by this year’s edition.'”
Japanese animé still hot, but South Korea in focus at Belgian festival