Latest Shinkai Film is Licensed

Canada’s 2011 Waterloo Festival of Animated Cinema (WFAC) announced last week that an unspecified American distributor has licensed the distribution rights to creator/director Makoto Shinkai’s 2010 feature film Hoshi o Ou Kodomo ~ Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below. The acquisition confirmation led the WFAC to cancel its planned Sunday screening of the film. The new fantasy film from the creator of Voices of a Distant Star & 5 Centimeters Per Second opened in Japanese theaters on May 7. The film had its North American premiere last July at Otakon.

Source: Anime News Network