MIAF 2025 - Meet The Filmmaker #1: NeW NeW – Emerging Japanese Animators

Doi Nobuaki is the producer of Japanese production/distribution company New Deer as well as Japan’s leading international animation festival, the Hiroshima Animation Season (HAS). He has been a good friend to MIAF and to Australian animation, reaching out to us for assistance in identifying up and coming animators here to feature at HAS.

His passion for emerging Japanese animators and the work they create is boundless and makes his voice an invaluable one as we seek out new work being produced in Japan.

Nobuaki will travel to Melbourne for MIAF this year, bringing along program featuring work from the likes of Ryo Hirano, Kazuki Sekiguchi, and Isaku Kaneko, all of whom have been supported by a newly established program called NeW NeW. And, of course, he brings with him a wealth of knowledge of what is happening in the Japanese animation scene right now which we will be asking him to share.

This is a rare opportunity to talk to an internationally important animation curator, and at the same time get a peek into where contemporary Japanese animation is heading.

This session is classified: Unclassified (M) Mature, not recommended for viewers under 15 years.

Please note that Backlot is NOT fully accessible. There are stairs with handrails, but no lift to the second floor where the cinema is located.