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Company description::
Dallas, TX -- March 24, 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."
The rest is history
"The whole documentary has been a series of happy accidents," says Alexander. Originally slated to be an inside look at science fiction/fantasy type conventions, a case of missing tape stalled that concept and gave birth to Invasion: Anime.
"We were shooting at Project: A-Kon, a Dallas anime convention. The hotel's front desk misplaced a case of video tape we had set up for delivery during the weekend, limiting what we could shoot," explained Alexander. "So we chose to use the possibly once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity to get interviews with the Japanese artists who were guests of the convention."
"The rest, as they say, is history."
Invasion: ANIME encompasses several important firsts for Tempest Productions, as it is their first feature-length production and first attempt at a modern-day subject. The company is best known for their short-form examinations of Dallas-Fort Worth history, recently completing of a series of educational shorts for the Centennial Celebration in Irving, Texas. Currently, Tempest is working on two new historical documentaries, “The Donut Girls,” a feature-length project about young women who gave up the safety of American shores to work for the Red Cross Clubmobile program in war-torn Europe during WWII, and “Union Jeep Vexin,” a short-subject focusing on a group of men from a small town west of Paris, France, who get together each year to re-create the invasion of Normandy Beach.
More information about Tempest Productions and their documentaries can be found at www.TempestProductions.com.
For information about the Las Vegas Comic Con, please visit http://www.lasvegascomiccon.com
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