In the third episode of our new limited series Animation Around the World, we hear from animation industry participants in Latvia, Ecuador, Finland, and Russia.
For each country profiled in the series, we asked a person from that country to tell us a little bit about their local animation industry – particularly, how it has developed over the last decade and what sets apart the country’s animation output from other countries in its region.
Anna Zača of the Latvian Animation Association tells Cartoon Brew that the country, which has a rich history of short animation, is growing its feature capacity and will release six animated features in 2019, a remarkable figure for the small Baltic country whose population is less than two million people. Some of the films are co-productions in which Latvia is one of the participating countries, but others originate from Latvian filmmakers like Edmunds Jansons’ delightful looking Jacob, Mimmi, and the Talking Dogs:
