Anime News

FFVII: Advent Children Anime Awarded
Date: 10/19/2005
On Saturday at Spain's Sitges Festival (Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya), Square-Enix has taken the Honorary Maria (Maria Honrifica) Award for their CG anime Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. The prize is awarded based on the selections of an international jury, for films taken from the Official Fantastic Selection. A grand standing ovation was given by the crowd as producer Shinji Hashimoto received the award on stage. According to Angel Sala who organizes the event, their screening room was filled to over capacity during the screening and would most likely be filled even they screened it 3 times.
Source: Anime News Service