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Michel Gondry to Receive Annecy Honorary Cristal as Special Guest of the Fest

Visionary filmmaker Michel Gondry will be attending the Annecy International Animation Film Festival for the first time, honored as a special guest of the...

Annecy Festival 2025 Spotlights Hungarian Animation, Music Videos & MIFA’s 40th Anniversary

The next Annecy International Animation Film Festival will take place from June 8-14, 2025, and will pay tribute to Hungarian animation. The event will...

WIA Opens Applications for Stories X Women Animation Mentorship Program

WIA (Women in Animation) has opened applications for the 2025 Stories x Women program are open. Now in its fourth year, Stories x Women...

AVAF, SAIK and Toonz Join Forces for Animation, Games & XR Fest

Keeping up with India’s thriving animation, visual effects, gaming, comics and XR industries, the Society of AVGC-XR Institutions in Kerala (SAIK) has partnered with...

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...

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...

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...

Netflix Animation Flies Its Preview Extravaganza to Annecy

Days after its bumper upfront presentation in Hollywood, Netflix brought the show to Annecy Festival on Wednesday. “Next on Netflix Animation” played to a...
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