Tag: Annecy Festival
Director Kristina Dufková Tackles a Weighty Issue in Her Acclaimed Stop-Motion Feature ‘Living Large’
Director Kristina Dufková’s charming stop-motion and 2D-animated feature Living Large has quickly become one of the popular underdog projects of the year. After winning...
Hair Apparent: Nicolas Keppens Bares the Truth of His Award-Winning ‘Beautiful Men’
Belgian director Nicolas Keppens loves the infinite possibilities offered by animation. “You can really dive deep into the world and create all these details,” he...
Magnificent Misfits: ‘Memoir of a Snail’ Director Adam Elliot Details the Making of His Acclaimed Stop-Motion Feature
Almost 15 years after Mary and Max, Australian stop-motion artist Adam Elliot has made a striking return to feature film directing with Memoir of...
‘Percebes’ Directors Alexandra Ramires & Laura Gonçalves Discuss Their Annecy Cristal-Winning Short
Last June, the year’s top narrative short winner at Annecy was a beautifully drawn, 2D-animated documentary about the life cycle of an unusual shellfish...
Annecy Cristal Winner ‘Memoir of a Snail’ Sets U.S. Debut with IFC
Oscar-winning Australian stop-motion animator Adam Elliot's new feature Memoir of a Snail is coming out of its shell, with IFC Films announcing it will...
The Animation Showcase Launches ‘Best of Annecy’ Shorts Collection
The Animation Showcase, the online platform presenting critically acclaimed, festival favorite animated films from around the world for free to industry members, has launched...
Mediawan Kids Announces ‘Tales of Miruu,’ ‘Astroboy,’ ‘Tuff Pom’ & More
Amid the bustle of last week's Annecy Festival and MIFA market, French major Mediawan Kids & Family showcased it's massive slate of animated originals and...
Gints Zilbalodis’ ‘Flow’ Sails to More Territories with International Sales
Fresh off its three-award sweep at Annecy Festival, following its world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard section, indie animated feature Flow...
Works in Progress at Annecy: Four Projects to Keep an Eye On!
Though Annecy Festival has become rather large scale and increasingly star-studded in recent years — take this year’s Wes Anderson masterclass or The Lord...
Chantal Cloutier Named Exec Producer & Brand Manager for Epic Storyworlds
Independent kids' content creation company Epic Storyworlds — founded by children’s entertainment executives Steve Couture and Ken Faier and a sister company to Faier’s...
Harmless Misfits: Tracing the Artistic Rise of Portuguese Animation
The first known Portuguese animation film was released on January 25, 1923. The Nightmare of António Maria, a short animated by Joaquim Guerreiro, was...
Annecy Festival Announces Special Prizes, Bonnie Arnold Receives ‘Golden Ticket’
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival's nine Special Prizes were presented today (Friday, June 14) at a ceremony held at the Bonlieu. The official...
Adult Swim Adds Comics Adaptations ‘Get Jiro!,’ ‘Super Mutant Magic Academy’ & More ‘Superman’ to Slate
Adding to its prior confirmation of greenlights for the new animated series Oh My God Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances and Ha...
Écho Média Announces International Animated Feature Co-Pros at MIFA
Montreal-based television and film production company Écho Média has announced two new animated co-production projects, Heart of Darkness and The City of Maria, in...
Annecy: Mercury Filmworks & Turnip + Duck Team Up for ‘Bunny McBee’
Award-winning studios Mercury Filmworks (Hilda, The Lion Guard) in Canada and Turnip + Duck (Maddie + Triggs) in Ireland have finalized a new deal at the Annecy...
Celebrating the Art of Henry Selick, Richard Williams and Wes Anderson at Annecy
In a sense, Annecy is a parade of novelty. The festival is a showcase for new films, new announcements, new technologies. Yet amid all...
Adult Swim Orders New Animated Series ‘Oh My God, Yes!,’ ‘Ha Ha You Clowns’ and ‘Smiling Friends’ S3
At today’s Adult Swim - Defying Expectations Panel at Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Adult Swim announced the two brand-new animated series as well...
Exploring the Gap Between Reality and Memory: Torill Kove’s ‘Maybe Elephants’ (Extended Interview)
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” Tolstoy famously wrote — a theme Torill Kove’s latest animated...
Annecy: What We Learned at the ‘Arcane’ Season 2 Session
Probably the most hotly-anticipated panel at this year’s Annecy Festival — allegedly, people were camping out to get in the queue — Fortiche’s presentation...
WB, Cartoon Network & Hanna-Barbera Announce ‘Adventure Time’ Spin-Offs & More New Shows at Annecy
Warner Bros. Animation (WBA), Cartoon Network Studios (CNS), and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe (HBSE) announced three series greenlights and previewed a slate of projects currently...
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