Jérôme Boulbès
3D CG artist, film director, freelancer and university professor.
Based in Fukuoka, Japan.
3D CG artist, film director, freelancer and university professor.
Based in Fukuoka, Japan.
2008 Maison des auteurs laureate. (artist-in-residence program in Angouleme, France)
2007 Villa Kujoyama laureate. (artist-in-residence program in Kyoto, Japan)
2007 Villa Kujoyama laureate. (artist-in-residence program in Kyoto, Japan)
Most recent Festival selections includes (2014-2025) :
International Animation Film Festival Tindirindis – Vilnius – Lithuania (2025),
Zebra Poetry Film Festival – Münster, Berlin – Germany (2025),
Cairo International Animation Forum – Cairo – Egypt (2025),
Moving-Image-Arts International Short Film Festival – Toronto – Canada (2025),
Varsaw International Film Festival 2018 (Poland),
Animfest, Athens (Greece – 2018experimental animation 1st prize ),
International Video Art House Madrid (Spain) ,
Festival C’est Trop Court, Nice (France),
Locomoción Experimental Animation Festival, Mexico City (Mexico),
Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Market (Japan),
Bidedromo, International experimental film Festival, Bilbao (Spain)
Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
GLAS, Berkeley, CA (USA),
Prix Ars Electronica, International Competition for CyberArts, Linz (Austria),
Lago Film Fest, Revine Lago (Italia) ,
CutOut International animation Film Festival,Querétaro (Mexico),
International short Film Festival, Téhéran (Iran),
International animation Film Festival, Gdansk (Poland),
Kyoto International Independant Film Festival (Japan 2015 – Grand Prix )
Older festivals selections and prizes includes : Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand, Cannes, French Academy awards, Imagina, Lille, Brest, Yokohama, Sapporo, Osaka, Takayama, Siggraph-Asia (Japan), Siggraph, New York, Palm Beach, Seattle (USA) SICAF (Seoul), Stuttgart (Germany), Toronto (Canada),Huesca, Sitges (Spain) , Brussel (Belgique), Krok, Saint Petersburg (Russia, Ukraine), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Taipei (Taiwan), Great-Britain, Poland, Danemark, Australia, and many others
Prizes includes : best animation in Clermont-Ferrand, best Short Film in Lille, Krok (Russie), Huesca, Sitgès (Espagne), Rome, Imagina, Sacem prize(Bruz2012), First Prize in Takayama (Japan), and many other mentions in festivals.
Exhibitions
Institut Francais fukuoka (Japan, 2018)
Pori Film Festival （Finland, 2016）
Theater Cafe, Nagoya (Japan, 2014)
Institut Francais fukuoka (Japan, 2018)
Pori Film Festival （Finland, 2016）
Theater Cafe, Nagoya (Japan, 2014)
Group Exhibitions
Art Space Baku, Fukuoka (Japan, 2017)
Art Space Chifuyu (Japan, 2017)
Art Space Baku, Fukuoka (Japan, 2016)
Dongseo University (Korea, 2016)
Kyoto Manga museum (2014)