KUDAN won "Grand prix" in Neum Animated Film Festival (NAFF 2009).  Surprised...

>>Neum Animated Film Festival

KUDAN has been selected for the International Competition in I'VE SEEN FILMS (Italy) which Rutger Hauer founded.  The internet voting has started and you can vote till September 20th, 2009 through the website.

>>I'VE SEEN FILMS International Short Film Festival

KUDAN has been in the selection for the international short film competition in Anima Mundi 2009 in Brazil.

>>Anima Mundi

KUDAN won "Monkey King Award" Foreign Short Animated Film Great Prize for the 5th China International Animation Festival (CICAF).

>>CICAF

>>2009 Prizewinners (WORD doc.)

KUDAN is introduced as a customer showcase of 3DSMAX in Autodesk Japan website.

>>AUTODESK Customer Showcase (Japanese)

Hooray! KUDAN won the place of the best short film of Anima 2009 the International Animation Festival. The festival was taken place in Flagey, Brussels, from 20th to 28th February 2009.

>>ANIMA 2009 The prizewinners

KUDAN will be part of the "World Shorts 4" program in Anima 2009 which will be screened on Monday February 23rd at 5.30 pm in the Studio 5 as well as on Tuesday February 24th at 10.00 pm in the Studio 4.

The Festival will take place at Flagey (Place Flagey, entrance: Place Sainte Croix, 4 - 1050 Brussels).

>>ANIMA 2009

KUDAN was nominated for the IMAGINA AWARD 2009.  The festival was held from Feb 4th to 9th in Monaco.
>>IMAGINA 2009

KUDAN was awarded "Special Jury Award" in Electronic Theater at Siggraph Asia 2008 on December 11th 2008. Takashi Fukumoto(producer) went up on the stage and greeted. He also received a trophy and Seagate 1.5TBHD on the stage. Hooray.
>>Siggraph Asia 2008 Electronic Theatre

KUDAN received "Excellence Prize" in Animation Division for 12th Japan Media Arts Festival on December 9th 2008.
>>Japan Media Arts Festival
The award ceremony will be on 3rd February 2009 at Tokyo Midtown Hall.

KUDAN has been selected for the International Competition of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2009 (January 30 to February 7).
>>Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival

KUDAN was awarded "BEST FIRST FILM" prize in International Competition at I Castelli Animati 2008.
>>I Castelli Animati

KUDAN has been selected for International Competition at I Castelli Animati in Rome,　Italｙ. The official screening will be held on November 28th 2008 at Cinema Modernissimo.
>>I Castelli Animati

KUDAN have been selected for the screening competition for International Film Festival ETIUDA&ANIMA 2008. The competition will be held between 17th and 21st November.
>>Etiuda and Anima 2008

KUDAN won the first place at Computer Space 2008 in the category computer animation. The award ceremony of Computer Space 2008 was held on October 31st, 2008 in Sofia, Bulgaria.  We thank Computer Space 2008 very much.  We really wished we could have been there.
>>"Computer Space 2008" awarded the winners in the XX edition

KUDAN has been nominated to the finals for the Award Winners for Computer Space 2008 in the category computer animation. The awarding ceremony which will take place on October, 31st in Sofia, Bulgaria.
>>Computer Space 2008

KUDAN will be screened in computer animation show for children from December 20th 2008 to January 2009 at the an institutional arts space Sala Parpalló Valencia Spain
>>Sala Parpalló

KUDAN has been selected for Electronic Theater in Siggraph Asia 2008. It is the official competition in Siggraph Asia 2008 held at Suntec Movie Theatre from Decmber 11th to 13th 2008.
>>Siggraph Asia 2008

Director Taku Kimura and Animator Koichi Yamagishi made a speech "Making of KUDAN" in the official event,  "The new world is opened by the newest digital image sound technology" of JAPAN INTERNATIONAL CONTENTS FESTIVAL (Called “CoFesta”)   on October 20th 2008 at SPACE [O:] in Omotesando Hills in Tokyo Japan.
>>The new world is opened by the newest digital image sound technology (japanese)

KUDAN has been selected for International Competition for Animated Film in 51st International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film - DOK Leipzig
>>DOK Leipzig

KUDAN was selected for "Anima't shorts", the short
animation competition in 41st International Film Festival of Catalonia - SITGES 08.   The official screening was held on October 6th at Cine El Retiro.
>>SITGES 08

KUDAN will be shown on 12 Nov in Panorama2 at Cubby Broccoli Cinema in Bradford Animation Festival (BAF), the UK's biggest and longest-running annual animation festival, is a project of the National Media Museum.
>>Bradford Animation Festival

KUDAN has been selected for the Official Competition in the Narrative Short category at Ottawa 08 International Animation Festival(OIAF)
(This will be the premiere in NorthAmerica)
>>Ottawa 08 International Animation Festival

KUDAN will be screened at HIROSHIMA'08 The 12TH INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL IN JAPAN.  It will be shown in the special program "Japanese Animation Today" held on August 11th, 2008.
(This will be the premiere in Japan)
>> HIROSHIMA'08 program on Aug/11