The new animated movie Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles took the award for Best Animated Sci-Fi Feature at the 2006 Int’l Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. Produced by Harmony Gold and distributed in North America by FUNimation Ent., the film will be honored at the Oct. 28 screening in Phoenix.
Picking up where the popular anime TV series left off with a cliffhanger more than 20 years ago, Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles features a cast of returning characters, led by Scott Bernard and Vince Grant, that fights to end a decades-long struggle against an enigmatic alien race known as the Invid. Details surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the legendary Admiral Hunter will be revealed and our young heroes will uncover a treacherous plot that could tear them apart and threaten their survival.
The film is directed by Tommy Yune, who worked on visual effects for the original TV series and produced the video games Robotech: Battlecry, Robotech: The Macross Saga and Robotech: Invasion. Mark Hamill (Star Wars, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm) and Chase Masterson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Manticore) lend their voices to the production, which incorporates CG elements into the classic anime style.
Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles has also screened at Cannes and The New York Korean Film Festival, and will make the rounds at additional film festivals across North America. Fans can go to http://www.funimationfilms.com for updates on festival screenings. FUNimation plans to release the film in theaters and on DVD in early 2007.
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