Studio Ghibli, Wild Bunch Co-Producing "The Red Turtle"

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After winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film with "Father & Daughter" in 2001, the Dutch director Michael Dudock de Wit is preparing to make his feature-length debut next September with The Red Turtle, a collaboration between the French production company Wild Bunch and the renowned Japanese Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, The Wind Rises).

Renowned director Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies, The Tale of Princess Kaguya) serves as artistic producer on the picture alongside checking the storyboards and scenario by de Wit, who temporarily relocated to Kogenai in Tokyo during production. The César Award winning French director and screenwrter Pascale Ferran (Bird People) penned the script.

Studio Ghibli and Wild Punch previously co-produced Hiromasa Yonebayashi's 2010 feature film Arrietty, which was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United Kingdom by StudioCanal. Takahata's own The Tale Of Princess Kaguya received a nomination for Best Animated Feature during the 87th Academy Awards earlier this year.

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This is an interesting turn of events! Dudock de Wit's Father and Daughter is a stunning short and I can't wait to see his transition to feature film
 
Although they haven't returned to independently making their own films yet, collaborations like this and Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom do make me optimistic about the future of Studio Ghibli. Maybe after a few projects like these, they may be able to risk another theatrical feature of their own again?
 
If they're in the business of producing their friends' films now, hopefully they can speed up Yuri Norstein's The Overcoat - which has been in production for 34 years and counting...
 
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