Mamoru Hosoda's Belle Film Screening and Q&A with Eric Wong

Supported by The University of Greenwich, Centre for Creative Futures, part of the Institute for Inclusive Communities and Environments and the School of Design and Creative Industries.

Belle is the 2021 animated film by Oscar-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda, who founded Tokyo-based Studio Chizu. The film received five Annie Award nominations – the most for a Japanese anime film ever at that year’s ceremony. The narrative follows a teenage girl in a small town with an alternative virtual existence as a global music icon. Director Hosoda sought out Eric Wong to create a vast and complex setting for the film. In taking on the mammoth digital stage design brief, Eric designed an entire virtual world, known in the film as “U”. This included designing a virtual city for the film, a stadium and park, as well as app design and interface, environment and colour developments.

Eric is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Greenwich. He graduated with a masters from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Eric was nominated for the RIBA President’s Silver Medal and is a recipient of the Bartlett School of Architecture Medal for outstanding academic achievements in professional performance, the Sir Banister Fletcher Medal for highest marks in Part 2 graduate studies and the Fitzroy Robinson Drawing Prize for best drawings in Part 2 graduate studies. He later completed his Part III professional studies at the University of Cambridge where he qualified as an Architect.

17:00 - 19:00: Screening of Belle

19:00 - 20:00: Q&A with Eric Wong

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