FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT:
Angela Alexander
Tempest Production Company
(214) 942-8830
(214) 942-9728 fax
Angie?TempestProductions.com
www.TempestProducions.com
Invasion: Anime to show at 2004 Las Vegas Comic Con
Dallas, TX, -- Mach 22, 2004 - Dallas-based Tempest Production Company announced today that their feature-length documentary, Invasion: Anime, will be screened at the 2004 Las Vegas Comic Con as a part of the Big Cartoon Exhibition, a programming track co-sponsored by Cartoonmogul.com. The convention will be held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Three-day passes to the event, which runs Oct 29-31, 2004, are available for $45 through the convention website, www.LasVegasComicCon.com. The exact screening dates and times will be announced closer to the event.
Invasion: Anime was most recently seen by European audiences at the SciFiLondon 3 festival in January and by US moviegoers at the Savannah Film Festival last October.
The documentary is an insightful look into the world of anime aimed more toward the novice than the expert. Not quite ?Trekkers,? this movie tends not to poke fun at ?fanboys? but focuses on the creators and critics with a nod towards the obsessive fan base. Interview subjects include names well known to anime fans across the world. Steve Bennett, president and founder of Studio Ironcat, artists and animators Akemi Takada, Senno Knife, Makoto Uno and Nobuyuki Takahashi, North American voice actors and directors Amy Howard Wilson, Tiffany Grant, Scott McNeil and Taliasen Jaffe and international anime experts like author Helen McCarthy and Dr. Susan J. Napier, Associate Director of Asian Studies, University of Texas, are but a few of more than 20 individuals who donated their time to this project.
AUDIENCES LOVE THE INVASION
At its world premiere at the St. Louis International Film Festival last November, Invasion: Anime brought in an estimated 65% larger audience than the Steve Spielberg-produced miniseries Taken, which screened immediately before it. After the St. Louis premiere, independent film expert Chris Gore wrote, "Invasion: Anime is a great doc about Japanese animation...an independent film that deserves attention."
FilmThreat.com reviewer Eric Campos writes "Invasion: Anime ...gives a nice history run down of the Japanese animated film...(and serves) as a nice eye opener, offering up information that fans may not have known about from industry professionals and folks that actually study anime."
And audience members from across the country have called Invasion: Anime "fun," "exciting" and "terrific history."
