Animation Is Film 2023 To Open With ‘The Boy And The Heron,’ Close With ‘Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget’
The L.A.-based festival released its lineup today, featuring 100th anniversary events for Warner Bros. and Disney.
The L.A.-based festival released its lineup today, featuring 100th anniversary events for Warner Bros. and Disney.
The feminist utopian feature will world premiere in competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival this weekend.
Renee Zhan’s short ‘Snake’ won the Share Her Journey Award, and ‘The Boy And The Heron’ was second runner-up among features.
We’ve seen all 40 of this year’s competition shorts and picked out 10 that we think everyone at the festival should watch.
Other award winners include ‘Our Uniform,’ ‘Armat,’ and ‘Pebble Hill.’
From A-list masterclasses to historic short film screenings, there’s a lot to see and do at Pixelatl 2023.
The film will screen on October 14, a full two months before its December 15 Netflix debut.
The San Sebastián screening will mark the film’s European debut and only the second time an animated feature has opened the festival.
Standouts from this year’s lineup include Annecy titles ’27,’ ‘Electra,’ ‘La Perra,’ ‘Nun or Never!’ and ‘Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal.’
Director Silvia Prietov spoke with us about the honor she and her team felt in being asked to produce the short.
The September 7 opening night screening will mark the film’s international debut.
Among the selections is ‘Chicken for Linda!’ which won the top feature film prize at Annecy last month.
Several titles spanning back to the 1930s have been digitized and were screened at this year’s Annecy Festival.
Without billions in backing or decades-old IPs, these indie producers are blazing a path in tv and feature animation.
The biggest Annecy ever, by a lot, wrapped tonight with an awards gala befitting its incredible competition lineups.
After arguing that animation productions punch above their weight compared to live-action films and series, the group called on the EU to adjust the AVMS Directive.
In an Annecy masterclass, del Toro said recent box office hits like ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Mario’ could convince studios to give more leeway to animation filmmakers.
Industry executives discuss how decades-old stories don’t always work with contemporary standards of representation, storytelling, and relatability.
Annecy’s MIFA Feature Pitches offered up a visually and narratively diverse lineup that we’ll be tracking in the years to come.
Director Joël Vaudreuil spoke to us about the film’s small-town influences and making the jump from short to feature filmmaking.