Scotland Loves Animation is a charity that promotes
anime in
Scotland, through hosting an annual film festival October and partnering with
film festivals and other
independent cinemas to screen anime-related content during the rest of the year. The festival was established in 2010 by Andrew Partridge, who later went on to start the Glasgow-based anime distributor
Anime Limited. The main festival is based across of Scotland's two biggest cities:
Glasgow and
Edinburgh. They host Education Days that run as part of the festival where the public can meet industry professionals in a full day of talks, panel discussions, and workshops. Previous guests have included
The Garden of Words director
Makoto Shinkai and
Promare director
Hiroyuki Imaishi. The festival also regularly invites directors to host Q&A sessions after their films have been screened. Previous Q&A sessions have included
Naoko Yamada after the European Premiere of
K-On! the Movie and
Tomoki Kyoda after the European Premiere of
Eureka Seven: Hi-Evolution Movie 1. In addition to this,
Jonathan Clements usually speaks before each film screening to share his insight about the director and films being shown. They have also screened films in partnership with other festivals such as the
Glasgow Film Festival at the
Glasgow Film Theatre and the
Discovery Film Festival at the
DCA. The festival has two awards, the jury award and the audience award, awarded to one of a selection of the festival's films that year. The jury award, often referred to as the Golden Partridge after festival director Andrew Partridge, involves a panel of judges who tend to see the films for the first time alongside the audience and, after seeing all the films in competition, debate privately and vote on which film to give the award to. The audience award as the name suggests involves audiences rating films after seeing them using an online form (earlier festivals utilised lollipop (popsicle) sticks being deposited in containers marked with the ratings on). These ratings are counted and averaged to identify the winner. ==Event locations and venues==