GKids Presents The Colors Within Arriving on Blu-Ray™ + DVD and Limited Edition Steelbook® on May 27th and Digital Platforms April 1st

Los Angeles, CA – On May 27, the exquisite animated feature, The Colors Within will arrive on Blu-ray™ + DVD in a standard set and in a Limited Edition SteelBook® from GKIDS, with distribution by Shout! Studios. The many bonus features on The Colors Within include interviews, scene breakdowns, and other glimpses of behind-the-scenes magic that went into the making of the film. Additionally, Yamada's latest short film, The Garden of Remembrance, is exclusively included within the upcoming home entertainment release. The Colors Within will also be available on digital platforms beginning April 1, including Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Movies, Fandango At Home, Microsoft, and iNDEMAND.

The Colors Within is directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Naoko Yamada (A Silent Voice, Liz and the Blue Bird, The Heike Story), with production from studio Science SARU (Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, INU-OH). Producer Genki Kawamura's Story Inc. (your name., Weathering With You, Suzume) additionally joined the project for planning and producing. Screenwriter Reiko Yoshida (You're your Wave, Violet Evergarden) penned the script, and is joined by longtime Science SARU composer and frequent Yamada collaborator kensuke ushio (DEVILMAN crybaby, Chainsaw Man, A Silent Voice), who composed the score.

Totsuko has a unique way of seeing the world – she can see colorful auras around people, though she isn't able to see her own. She finds herself drawn to her classmate Kimi, who glows with the most beautiful color of all. To get closer to Kimi, Totsuko forms a band with her and Rui, a quiet musician who plays the theremin. As the newfound friends develop the sound of their music, they start to uncover the desires driving the heart of their songs.

A relatable adolescent tale of finding one's place in the world, The Colors Within unfolds in a beautiful palette with charming original music synchronized with the story itself. The film held its sold-out world premiere at the 2024 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and went on to win the Best Animation Film Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival. The film additionally was an official selection at BFI London, and held its North American Premiere as the Opening Night Feature in Los Angeles' Animation is Film Festival, where it took home the Audience Award.

Director Yamada worked as a key animator on many seminal television series, such as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Lucky Star, and Clannad. She went on to direct the beloved show K-ON! and its sequel, as well as the critically acclaimed animated features A Silent Voice and Liz and the Blue Bird. In 2021, Yamada directed the series The Heike Story, her first work at studio Science SARU, which also debuted to wide acclaim.

THE COLORS WITHIN BONUS FEATURES
● Garden of Remembrance
● Starting a Band with kensuke ushio
● Live Talk & Drawing with Naoko Yamada
● Crate Digging with Naoko Yamada
● Photowalk with Naoko Yamada
● Scene Breakdown – The Candlelit Church Sequence
● Scene Breakdown – The Final Performance
● Scene Breakdown – Totsuko's Flashback Sequence
● Color Palette #1: Interview with Director Naoko Yamada
● Color Palette #2: Interview with Music Creator kensuke ushio
● Color Palette #3: Interview with the Cast
● Color Palette #4: Behind the Scenes with the Cast
● Teasers and Trailers

THE COLORS WITHIN RETAIL LINKS:
APPLETV
GKIDS STORE Blu-ray
GKIDS STORE Steelbook
AMAZON Blu-ray
AMAZON SteelBook
SHOUT! STUDIOS STORE Standard Blu-ray
SHOUT! STUDIOS STORE Steelbook

About GKIDS
GKIDS is the Academy Award-winning producer and distributor of artist-driven and award-winning animation from around the world. After an astounding 13 Best Animated Feature nominations, the company took home the Oscar in 2024 for Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's acclaimed feature, The Boy and the Heron. The company's previous nominations include The Secret of Kells in 2010, A Cat in Paris and CHiCO & Rita in 2012, Ernest & Celestine in 2014, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and Song of the Sea in 2015, Boy and the World and When Marnie Was There in 2016, My Life as a Zucchini in 2017, The Breadwinner in 2018, Mirai in 2019, Wolfwalkers in 2021, and The Boy and the Heron in 2024. For more than a decade, GKIDS' influence on cinema has redefined the perception of animation as an artistic medium on par with live-action film through its stewardship of the Studio Ghibli catalog and by introducing American audiences to the critically-acclaimed films of other master filmmakers from around the world such as Mamoru Hosoda (Mirai, Belle), Tomm Moore (The Secret of Kells, Wolfwalkers), Benjamin Renner (Ernest & Celestine), Makoto Shinkai (Weathering With You), Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner), Alberto Vázquez (Unicorn Wars) and Masaaki Yuasa (INU-OH, The Night is Short Walk On, Girl), among countless others. Also, GKIDS is the founder and host of ANIMATION IS FILM, the annual LA-based film festival which embraces the highest aspirations of animation as a cinematic art form, and is a vocal advocate for filmmakers who push the boundaries of the medium to its fullest range of artistic expressions. www.gkids.com

About Shout! Studios
Shout! Studios is a multiplatform media company specializing in film and TV distribution, development, and production. The company has evolved with the changing entertainment landscape to excel in all forms of content distribution, including theatrical, digital streaming, broadcast and in-flight licensing, physical media, and more. Shout! Studios owns and manages a large portfolio of feature films, series, animation, and documentaries. The company's creative acquisition mandate has established it as a leading independent distributor, with partners and properties including Aardman Animations (Wallace and Gromit, Shaun The Sheep), GKIDS and Studio Ghibli (including the latest Academy Award® -winning masterpiece from Miyazaki, The Boy and the Heron), LAIKA Studios (Coraline, ParaNorman), as well as Mystery Science Theater 3000 (in partnership with creator Joel Hodgson), alongside many others. Shout! Kids focuses on live-action and animated kids and family properties plus anime, and the company releases genre and horror films and television shows under the Scream Factory imprint. Shout! Studios also operates the acclaimed streaming service Shout! TV and its family of FAST channels. The company produces, acquires, and distributes new films, including Shout! Studios' original Old Henry (Tim Blake Nelson), Linoleum (Jim Gaffigan, Rhea Seehorn), What's Love Got To Do With It (Lily James, Emma Thompson, Shazad Latif), The Kill Room (Uma Thurman, Joe Manganiello, Samuel L. Jackson), Drugstore June (Esther Povitsky), and the Viggo Mortensen-directed western The Dead Don't Hurt (Vicky Krieps, Viggo Mortensen). Shout! Studios is based in Los Angeles, California. For more on Shout! Studios, visit ShoutStudios.com