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Invasion Anime to Screen at Dallas Video Festival

posted on 2004-06-10 16:24 BST by Christopher Macdonald

Invasion Anime, a feature length documentary about anime fandom, will be screened at the Dallas Video Festival on July 8th. The documentary will also screen at Singapore's Animation Nation festival later this month. More detail available from this press release.

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