
And in my final duty as jury chairman this year I’m appearing on the Scotland Loves Anime podcast to discuss the films in competition with three of the jury members. The jury picked Yoshimi Itazu’s enchanting The Concierge for the Golden Partridge Award, but we now know, after the close of voting last night, that the audiences in Glasgow and Edinburgh instead preferred Yuzuru Tachikawa’s jazz odyssey Blue Giant.
