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Yamada will also introduce a screening of her 2024 film The ColorsWithin.
Panels will include "East West Anime," moderated by Andrew Partridge, Chief Content Officer of TOHO Europe, and featuring the authors Helen McCarthy and Charles Solomon, discussing "how culture, language and translation shape anime's reception across markets."
McCarthy will also give "an illustrated talk on anime's journey to the West."
Event tickets will go on sale on Friday July 31. The festival website is kilkennyanimated. com/.
Kilkenny Animated is hosted by Cartoon Saloon, Lighthouse Studios andSchweppe Curtis Nunn Events,