{"rewrite":{"id":"r_a033ec2e54157ab99d383c8d","clusterId":"c_c24f54134e16113fa85bcf38","slug":"we-are-aliens-takes-kau-ka-hoku-award-at-hawai-i-international-film-festival","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"We Are Aliens Takes Kau Ka Hoku Award at Hawai'i International Film Festival","summary":"Kōhei Kadowaki and NOTHING NEW's We Are Aliens won the Kau Ka Hōkū (Shooting Star) Award at the 46th Hawai'i International Film Festival in Waikiki on Sunday. The award honors an international filmmaker's first or second feature. The film opened in Japan on September 15 and has also screened at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, Annecy, Melbourne, New Zealand, and Busan.","whyItMatters":"The Hawai'i prize adds to a run of festival awards for a film whose director wrote, planned, storyboarded, and edited it himself, which gives NOTHING NEW and Miyu Productions a second festival circuit to work after the Japanese release.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe Kau Ka Hōkū Award is reserved for an international filmmaker\u0026#39;s first or second feature, and the Hawai\u0026#39;i festival handed it to We Are Aliens on Sunday in Waikiki. The film has already moved through Cannes\u0026#39; Directors\u0026#39; Fortnight on May 14 and Annecy\u0026#39;s competition, and it screened at Melbourne, New Zealand, and Busan before the Hawai\u0026#39;i run. Ottawa gave it the Grand Prize for Animated Feature last month, and Sitges gave it the Anima\u0026#39;t Award earlier this month. Kadowaki handled planning, script, direction, storyboards, and editing; Yaffle composed the music.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"We Are Aliens took the Kau Ka Hoku Award, which honors a first or second feature. Kōhei Kadowaki's film already screened at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight and Annecy before Hawai'i.","twitterPost":"We Are Aliens won a Hawai'i award limited to first or second features, after screenings at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight and Annecy.","threadsPost":"The Kau Ka Hoku Award at Hawai'i International Film Festival goes to a first or second feature, so We Are Aliens enters that slot after Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, Annecy, Melbourne, New Zealand and Busan. The festival circuit run is doing the work of a release strategy for Kōhei Kadowaki's film.","newsletterBlurb":"We Are Aliens, directed by Kōhei Kadowaki and produced by NOTHING NEW with Miyu Productions, won the Kau Ka Hōkū Award at the 46th Hawai'i International Film Festival. The prize goes to an international filmmaker's first or second feature. The film opened in Japan on September 15 and has collected awards at Ottawa and Sitges.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-11-02/we-are-aliens-film-wins-award-at-hawaii-intl-film-festival/.243448\",\"title\":\"We Are Aliens Film Wins Award at Hawai'i Int'l Film Festival\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":5497,"outputTokens":747,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1793644142,"createdAt":"2026-11-02T18:23:04.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-11-02T18:27:59.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-11-02T18:27:59.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_c24f54134e16113fa85bcf38","canonicalTitle":"News\nWe Are Aliens Film Wins Award at Hawai'i Int'l Film Festival","representativeArticleId":"a_3ffa9c5fee2228e6da83ca0a","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"We Are Aliens\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"anime\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-11-02T17:30:34.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-11-02T17:30:34.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-11-02T18:27:59.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-11-02/we-are-aliens-film-wins-award-at-hawaii-intl-film-festival/.243448","title":"News\nWe Are Aliens Film Wins Award at Hawai'i Int'l Film Festival"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["We Are Aliens"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"anime","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":["We Are Aliens won the Kau Ka Hōkū (Shooting Star) Award at the 46th Hawai'i International Film Festival in Waikiki on Sunday.","The award honors an international filmmaker's first or second feature.","Kōhei Kadowaki served as planner, scriptwriter, director, storyboard artist, and editor on the film.","We Are Aliens opened in Japan on September 15.","Ottawa International Animation Festival gave the film its Grand Prize for Animated Feature last month."],"pageLinks":{"healthSlugs":["we-are-aliens"],"storySlugs":[],"entities":[{"slug":"we-are-aliens","supported":12,"disputed":0,"contradicted":1,"unverified":15,"overall":"red","story_count":13,"has_dossier":true}],"stories":[],"entitiesOk":true,"storiesOk":true}}