TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A short Japanese animation featuring the plight of frogs during the rapid pace of climate change has won a major prize in one of Asia's largest short film festivals, organizers said Monday.
"Oasis," which won the Japanese environment minister's award for The Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia, is about how the use of artificial intelligence can save certain endangered frogs that otherwise would be killed in a warmer Earth in 2050.
With narration in English, the seven-minute work is directed by Yuta Miyoshi, a 24-year-old Japanese national.
After watching the computer-generated animation at an event in Tokyo, Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi praised the work, saying Miyoshi did an "excellent" job in addressing environmental issues.
"Studying environmental issues in order to make a film made me realize climate change is a thing that is actually happening right in front of my eyes," Miyoshi said.
"I hope this film will inspire people to address environmental issues," he said.
The film festival, authorized by the Academy Awards, will showcase around 200 short films from 112 countries and territories in Tokyo from Sept. 16 to 27. It was postponed for three months due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Online screenings of some of the works including Oasis are already available at the festival's official website.
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