Advance Screening of Miyazaki’s “Ponyo” at New York International Children’s Film Festival this Sunday

If you live in New York City and are free tomorrow (Sunday, August 9), then you have the opportunity to see Hayao Miyazaki’s new film five days before its official release date! The New York International Childrens’ Film Festival announced that it will be hosting a special advance screening of the film at the city’s Symphony Space on Sunday at 3:00 pm. This will be the East Coast’s first screening of the film. A block of tickets was just released and there will also be a standby line forming at the box office one hour prior to the showing.

For the rest of us unlucky souls out there, we’ll just have to wait until Walt Disney officially opens the film to the rest of North America this coming Friday, August 14.

The story of Ponyo follows an ordinary boy named Sosuke (voiced by Frankie Jonas in the English dub) and his friendship with Ponyo (Noah Cyrus), an unusual goldfish from the seas. Other cast members of the English dub include Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin, and Betty White. The trailer is available for streaming from both Yahoo! and Apple.