2575 Bancroft Way (Between College and Telegraph)
Berkeley, California CA

NEW JAPANESE ANIME FILM SERIES - "ANIME: A CELEBRATION"

The Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco presents a new Japanese animated film series, "Anime: A Celebration" to be held on November 1st & 2nd at the Pacific Film Archive Theater in Berkeley. The series is co-sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive, the Japan Society of Northern California and the Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley.

DATE: November 1 & 2, 2003
LOCATION:
Pacific Film Archive Theater
2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA
(Between College & Telegraph)

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

All films will be screened at the Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Theater located at 2575 Bancroft Way (between College and Telegraph), Berkeley. For information call (510) 642-1412 Advance tickets are recommended and available at the PFA Box Office. Call (510) 642-5249 to charge-by-phone.
*All films are in Japanese with English subtitles.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1

4:00 pm Space Firebird 2772 (Hi no Tori)

7:00 Only Yesterday(Omoide poroporo)

9:45 pm Black Jack

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2

3:30 pm The Cat Returns (Neko no Ongaeshi)

Panel Discussion immediately following the screening of The Cat Returns

PANELISTS: Nozomu Takahashi, Producer, Studio Ghibli; Mark Andrews, Head of Story at Pixar; Kaori Shoji- Japanese Pop-Culture Columnist MODERATOR: Russell Merritt, Professor at UC Berkeley

*Admission to the panel is free with purchase of a ticket to THE CAT RETURNS

7:00 pm Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no tani no Nausicaa) (Director: Hayao Miyazaki)

For information on show times and tickets, please visit the official website of the Pacific Film Archive at:www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa