Join Academy Museum Exhibitions Curator Jessica Niebel and Assistant Curator J. Raúl Guzmán before the screening of Ponyo for a rare opportunity to learn about their curatorial process and the journey to build the long-awaited and unprecedented retrospective exhibition, Hayao Miyazaki. This pre-screening presentation and Q&A will take place in the David Geffen Theater at 6:30 pm. A ticket to the Ponyo screening is required.

A delight for audiences of all ages, Ponyo focuses on the friendship between 5-year-old Sosuke and a magical goldfish named Brunhilde, the young daughter of a sorcerer father and a sea-goddess mother. After wandering away from her father’s four-flippered submarine, Brunhilde washes ashore and is discovered by curious Sosuke. Now renamed Ponyo, she yearns to be a real girl and join Sosuke’s family. Touching on classic Miyazaki themes about balance in nature and how friendships can blossom anywhere—even in the ocean’s depths―Ponyo is one of Miyazaki’s most charming features.

Schedule
6:30pm - Conversation
7:30pm - Screening

DIRECTOR: Hayao Miyazaki. WRITTEN BY: Hayao Miyazaki. CAST: Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kazushige Nagashima, Yuki Amami, George Tokoro. 2008. 101 min. Japan. Color. Japanese (subtitled). 35mm. New subtitled print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive, with special thanks to Studio Ghibli.

All film screenings in the Hayao Miyazaki Encores series are available here.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.