Scotland Loves Animation

Scotland Loves Animation is a charity that promotes anime in Scotland. They hold an annual film festival called "Scotland Loves Anime" (often abbreviated to SLA) in October and work with other festivals to programme anime content into their schedules.[1] It celebrated its 10th festival in 2019.

Scotland Loves Animation
LocationEdinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen[1]
Founded2010
Founded byAndrew Partridge
Festival date25 October - 25 November (Online) 7-8 November (Aberdeen)
LanguageInternational
Websitehttp://www.lovesanimation.com

In May 2020, Anime Limited launched a new online festival in partnership with Scotland Loves Animation, called Screen Anime. This service hosts 4 films and one TV series monthly. It is available in the UK and Ireland only.[2]

Background

Scotland Loves Animation is a charity that promotes anime in Scotland, through hosting an annual film festival October and partnering with film festivals and other independent cinemas to screen anime-related content during the rest of the year.

The festival was established in 2010 by Andrew Partridge, who later went on to start the Glasgow-based anime distributor Anime Limited. The main festival is based across of Scotland's two biggest cities: Glasgow and Edinburgh. They also host an education day, where the general public can meet industry professionals and other guests from Japan. They also host a smaller festival in Aberdeen.[3]

They host Education Days that run as part of the festival where the public can meet industry professionals in a full day of talks, panel discussions, and workshops. Previous guests have included The Garden of Words director Makoto Shinkai and Promare director Hiroyuki Imaishi. The festival also regularly invites directors to host Q&A sessions after their films have been screened. Previous Q&A sessions have included Naoko Yamada after the European Premiere of K-On! the Movie and Tomoki Kyoda after the European Premiere of Eureka Seven: Hi-Evolution Movie 1.[4][5]

In the past, they have held an event called We Love Anime which screened animated films across the UK. Films that were screened as part of We Love Anime included: The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Summer Wars and Patema Inverted.[6]

They have also screened films in partnership with other festivals such as the Glasgow Film Festival at the Glasgow Film Theatre and the Discovery Film Festival at the DCA.[7][8]

The Jury Award, called the Golden Partridge is named after Andrew Partridge, the founder of the festival.

Event locations and venues

Annually during October, the "Scotland Loves Anime" festival takes place in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The festival typically runs over a weekend in Glasgow, and over a week in Edinburgh. In Edinburgh they will show more films due to the greater number of film slots available. Because of the limited runs of anime films in cinemas outside of Japan, this is often the only chance to see many of these films at the cinema. Screenings for popular films are often sold-out long before the date of showing.

The festival is held in the Glasgow Film Theatre in Glasgow, the Edinburgh Filmhouse in Edinburgh and the Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen.

Recently, they have run a smaller festival at the Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen a couple of months after the main event.[9] This event screens only a handful of the more popular films from the main festival.[10]

Previous festivals
Year Dates Premieres Other information
2010 Glasgow: 8–10 October

Edinburgh : 15–17 October[11]

 A special screening of Summer Wars was held at the DCA in Dundee, Scotland.[12]
2011 Glasgow: 7–9 October

Edinburgh: 14–16 October[13]

 Into the Forest of the Fireflies’ Light won the first ever Golden Partridge award, even though it was a short film.[14]
2012 Glasgow: 12–14 October

Edinburgh: 19–21 October[15]

 Berserk – The Battle for Doldrey won the Golden Partridge, but only because Wolf Children wasn't in competition due to it not being a UK premiere. This rule was relaxed the next year.[14]
2013 Glasgow: 11–13 October

Edinburgh: 14–20 October[16]

 This year focued on the works of Makoto Shinkai. He was present for a Q&A after the EU Premiere of The Garden of Words. Patema Inverted also won both the Golden Partridge and the new Audience Award.[17] This year was also the first year the festival ran for more than a weekend at Edinburgh.
2014 Glasgow: 10–12 October[18]

Edinburgh: 13–19 October[19]

 The staff from Studio Bones were present for a special screening of a few episodes of Space Dandy and a Q&A. Giovanni's Island won the Golden Partridge and the Audience Award.[14]
2015 Glasgow: 9–11 October[20]

Edinburgh: 12–18 October

Aberdeen: 24–25 October[21]

 The festival expanded into Aberdeen for the first time. Miss Hokusai won the Golden Partridge and The Murder Case of Hana & Alice won the Audience Award.[22] This was also the year that Anime Limited started a discussion podcast about the films that are shown in competition at the festival. This podcast is hosted by the jury of the festival.[23]
2016 Glasgow: 14–16 October

Edinburgh: 17–23 October[24]

Aberdeen: 9–11 December[25]

 Makoto Shinkai was once again the focus of this festival, as his new film Your Name. had its Scottish premiere at the festival. A Silent Voice also had its first screening outside of Japan at the festival. Both of these films sold out, and would go on to require additional screenings. Both the Golden Partridge and Audience award went to Your Name. this year.[26]
2017 Glasgow: 13–15 October[27]

Edinburgh: 16–22 October[28]

Aberdeen: 2–3 December

 Lu over the Wall won both the Golden Partridge and Audience Award.[29][30] Due to the overwhelmingly negative reception of Eureka Seven: Hi-Evolution Movie 1 at the festival, Anime Limited canceled their plans to run a wider theatrical release of all three the Eureka Seven: Hi-Evolution Movies.[31][32]
2018 Glasgow: 12–14 October[33]

Edinburgh: 15–21 October[34]

Aberdeen: 7–8 December[35]

 This year focused on the works of Mamoru Hosoda. His latest film, Mirai, had its Scottish premiere at the festival. Penguin Highway won the Golden Partridge and I Want to Eat Your Pancreas won the Audience Award.[36][37][38]
2019 Glasgow: 11–13 October

Edinburgh: 14–20 October

Aberdeen: 24–30 January (2020)

 It was Scotland Loves Anime's biggest year yet, with over 3000 tickets sold. Weathering with You and Promare were the two biggest films this year, with over 1000 and 700 tickets sold for each respectively. The weekend of 19–20 October 2019 was the Edinburgh Filmhouse's 4th busiest weekend of all time, with the Saturday (19 October) having the most ticket sales in a single day in the history of the Filmhouse.[39] Weathering with You was also Glasgow Film Theatre's second biggest film of the month of October.[40] To celebrate the release of Promare, in 2019 Scotland Loves Animation held a special screening of the film at The Biscuit Factory in Edinburgh. It featured themed food and a Q&A with staff from TRIGGER, who were there to greet the audience.[41] The Golden Partridge went to Ride Your Wave, however the Audience Award went to Weathering with You.[42][43]

^a World Premiere of the English Dubbed version of the film.

2020 Festival

Due to the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, the 2020 Scotland Loves Anime festival will be held online. A small number of physical screenings were scheduled to be held, but they were all ultimately cancelled. The online part of the film festival will be held in partnership with Screen Anime, a streaming service set up by Anime Limited earlier in the year. The online portion of the festival will be held between 25 October 2020 and 25 November 2020. 2/3 of the funds raised from the online festival will be donated to the Glasgow Film Theatre and the Edinburgh Filmhouse.

The films that will be screened as part of Scotland Loves Anime on Screen Anime are:

The digital festival will also feature two in progress films, Inu-Oh (Science SARU) and Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (Bones).

The physical festival was scheduled to be run on 7–8 November in Edinburgh and Aberdeen and 14–15 November in Glasgow, but these screenings were cancelled due to the tightening of Coronavirus restrictions throughout the UK. Lupin III: The First and On-Gaku: Our Sound were scheduled to be screened at these cinemas[44][45]

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