Santa Company(Film, 2014)

Santa Company (Japanese: サンタ・カンパニー, Hepburn: Santa Kanpanī) is a 2014 Japanese anime short film that follows the story of a girl, Noel, and her friends as they deliver presents on Christmas Eve. The film was directed by Kenji Itoso through his own studio Kenji Studio. Originally launched as a crowdsourcing campaign on the Japanese site Anipipo, the film aimed at raising ¥1,000,000 for production. The project was unsuccessful, raising only ¥904,001 of the original goal. The project was re-launched, this time on Kickstarter, on December 3, 2013. On December 22, 2013, the film met its original goal of $50,000, and managed to raise $72,270 by the end of the campaign. The project was scheduled to be delivered to backers by Christmas 2014, the film having been completed in July 2014. Kenji Studio planned to hold a special screening of the film for families who were affected by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami disaster. The film was screened at multiple film festivals around the world, starting with the Tokyo International Film Festival on October 25, 2014. An extended anime film titled Santa Company: Christmas no Himitsu by Asahi Production premiered in November 29, 2019. Another short film titled Santa Company: Midsummer Merry Christmas ... ()