The colorful flags, large posters, motivated management and
excited audience were enough to realize the strength of the 4th
Anime Convention inaugurated by H.E. joon-Gyu Lee Ambassador of Korea in India
at Marwah Studios Noida.
“We were 354 million rupees Industry in Animation and now
expected to be 2 billion rupees industry by 2015. We are the only festival of
this kind in the country to create awareness, support and promote the animation
business” said Sandeep Marwah President Marwah Studios in his opening remarks.
“We at Korea concentrating a lot in this side and Animation
business have grown to a large industry. We have our own internal consumption
and also we have attracted the World Market for job works.” said H.E. Ambassador
of Korea in the capacity of Chief Guest.
A book designed by Soumitra Das Gupta was also released on
the occasion. Later Sandeep Marwah handed over the life membership of
International Film And Television Club to the dignities attending the
convention including the Director of Korean Information Centre Kim Kun Pyoung,
Supriya Suri and Nitesh of Cine Darbar expressed the
formation of the festival. Kshitiz Anand, Nao Hirasawa, Ryan Holmberg, Bharat
Murthy and Mario Van Rickenbach also attended the inauguration.
