AllTheAnime Podcast - 21st October 2019 - Scotland Loves Anime 2019 Judges Award Special

On this edition of the podcast continue our annual tradition of bringing you a special episode that brings you discussion on the Judges Award category of the Scotland Loves Anime Film Festival, which this year is a big milestone as it's the tenth year it's been running!

Jeremy Graves and Andy Hanley are joined by the Chairman of the Jury, Jonathan Clements to help guide discussion with all four members of the jury for this year:

Michael Doig (Colourist, Art Director on TWRP's 'Starlight Brigade' music video)

India Swift (Animator, Director of TWRP's 'Starlight Brigade' music video)

Jack Liang (Producer at Polygon Pictures)

Freya Allan (Animator, worked on the film 'Klaus' coming soon to Netflix)

The purpose of this podcast is give you an insight into what led each member of the jury to cast their vote on the films in competition at the film festival. There are SPOILERS discussed in detail throughout this episode, so if you haven't seen any of the films it's at your discretion if you want to listen or not.

The four films in competition this year were as follows:

Ride Your Wave

Children of the Sea

Birthday Wonderland

Weathering With You

And if that wasn't enough, we're also joined by film festival director, Andrew Partridge to look back on the festival this and past years too!

Timecode breakdown for you -

00:00:00 - Intro before the intro to the show proper

00:02:10 - Show begins proper.

00:07:12 - Ride Your Wave

00:17:54 - Children of the Sea (Worth noting this begins during a final question that was intended to be about Ride Your Wave, but then naturally segued into Children of the Sea)

00:34:06 - Talk with Andrew Partridge about the festival has been this year

00:58:33 - Birthday Wonderland

01:15:20 - Weathering With You

01:37:02 - How the judges voted

01:44:37 - The judges reflect on their experiences being a judge at the festival

01:53:03 - Outro.