Montreal’s 26th Fantasia International Film Festival is streaming a 20-minute short directed and written by Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop) titled “A Girl Meets a Boy and a Robot” on July 23.
Watanabe directed such notable anime productions as Cowboy Bebop, Macross Plus, Samurai Champloo, Space Dandy, Carole & Tuesday, and Terror in Resonance.
The event will screen the Canadian premiere the feature-length anime for Nagabe’s The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún manga.
He also directed the “Blade Runner: Black Out 2022” anime short.