Tag: Marjane Satrapi
East L.A. College and Cinema Without Borders Plan French Animation Celebration Day
The Ninth annual East L.A. College International Animation Day Festival will spotlight French Animation on May 19. Organized by ELAC and Cinema Without Borders...
ITFS Feature Selections Spotlight Strong Women in Times of Crisis
The 30th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS | itfs.de) has unveiled the feature films from around the world that will be screening...
Criterion Channel Programs 31 Art-House Animation Films for July
The Criterion Channel is planning a sizzling summer programming event for animation aficionados, with 31 boundary-pushing films from the 1950s up to the present...
News Bytes: ‘Abominable’ Set for TIFF, New ‘Playmobil’ Trailer, Rutger Hauer Dies & More
’Lord of the Rings’ Series at Amazon Taps First Cast Member
Aussie actress Markella Kavenagh (Romper Stomper) is in talks to play a new character...
Anima to Spotlight French Animation in Brussels
Anima, the Brussels International Animation Film Festival, will place a special focus on its national neighbor France in its 2019 edition, taking place March...
Lucasfilm Prez Kathleen Kennedy to Receive Cinematic Imagery Award
The Art Directors Guild has announced that eight-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and President of Lucasfilm Kathleen Kennedy will receive the 2018 Cinematic Imagery Award at...
Kino Lorber Snags NorAm Rights to Challenging ‘Tehran Taboo’
Kino Lorber has picked up rotoscope-animated festival favorite Tehran Taboo for distribution in the US and English-speaking Canada, with plans for a February theatrical...
‘Zucchini’ Harvests Two César Awards
France’s biggest national cinema celebration, the César Awards, took place Friday night in Paris. While Paul Verhoeven’s awards season darling Elle took the coveted...
Academy Invites 683 New Members for 2016
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has extended membership invitations to 683 distinguished filmmakers, artists and executives “who represent the best in...
Angouleme to Add Female Nominees After Boycott
The most boy-ful boycott of comic-book history has lead the illustrious Angouleme festival to cave in to demands for greater gender parity initiated by...
Salma Hayek’s ‘Prophet’ Draws Top Helmers
There’s been a lot of indie interest in the upcoming animated adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s best-selling book The Prophet. The intriguing pic, which is...
‘Lion King’s’ Roger Allers Joins Animated ‘Prophet’
Roger Allers, who co-directed Disney's smash hit The Lion King and Sony Pictures Animation's Open Season, has signed on to an animated adaptation of...
‘Persepolis’ Screening Continues to Rattle Tunisians
The Tunisian trial over Nessma TV’s broadcast of Marjane Satrapi’s controversial 2007 animated feature Persepolis was cut short after the lawyers from the two...
TV Broadcast of ‘Persepolis’ Divides Tunisians
Marjane Satrapi’s Oscar-nominated 2007 animated feature Persepolis has been the center of a political storm in Tunisia this past week. After Muslim fundamentalists attacked...
Satrapi Delivers Tasty ‘Chicken With Plums’ in Venice
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Chicken with Plums, the live-action follow-up to their Oscar-nominated animated feature Persepolis (2007) made a big splash at the...
Salma Hayek Joins Effort to Animate Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’
Award-winning actress Salma Hayek and her company Ventanarosa Productions are reportedly joining a project to make an animated feature based on the classic poetry...
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