Starting on the 15th December the Sottodiciotto Film Festival in Turin is honouring the career of the Oscar®-nominated Japanese American Animator, Jimmy Murakami, with a dedicated retrospective of his life’s work.
On Tuesday, 8th November Shebeen Flick will welcome Oscar® -nominated animation director Jimmy Murakami to a special screening showing his 1969 short The Good Friend and the documentary Jimmy Murakami – Non Alien directed by Sé Merry Doyle. Jimmy T. Murakami is a world-renowned Oscar®- nominated animator whose credits include When the Wind Blows and The Snowman but there is one dark chapter in his life that he has not revealed until recently. During WW2,…