What We’re Looking Forward To At This Month’s Stuttgart International Festival Of Animated Film
Highlights include a South Africa country focus, Disney’s 100th-anniversary celebration, and an honorary Trickstar for Signe Baumane.
Highlights include a South Africa country focus, Disney’s 100th-anniversary celebration, and an honorary Trickstar for Signe Baumane.
Director Michael Emry teamed with U.K. visual artist Troy Browne to put together the vibrant spot.
Yamamura’s films are a bit like chameleons. Each looks different from the previous one, yet there can be no doubt that the films are his.
Servais, who used an exciting variety of styles and techniques, was a humanist whose work warned of intolerance and authoritarian ideologies.
Zagreb Film produced some of the wildest, most eclectic animated shorts of the 20th century, but their work has been exceptionally difficult to view — until now.
“Our goal with the short was to hearken back to the classic cartoons of yesteryear but to do so with modern sensibilities and technology,” says Youngberg.
Eight unique and personal animated shorts debut on HBO Max today.
The festival will unveil other competition sections later this month, before kicking of in June.
There are plenty of familiar titles heading to Zagreb this year, including a pair of Oscar nominees.
Four short films won prizes as well: ‘The Borderline,’ ‘The Queen of the Foxes,’ ‘Swing to the Moon,’ and ‘Intestine Road, Fish Island.’
This year’s Quirino Awards will take place on May 13 in the Canary Island city of La Laguna, Tenerife.
“Animation is the very definition of film,” actor Dwayne Johnson told the audience.
Filmmaker Conner Griffith used 1,400 images taken from 19th-century engravings to construct his latest short.
While two of the categories feel like locks this year, the animated short race is still relatively open.
Nexus Studios is producing six animated shorts promoting gender equality by telling the stories of young women from around the world.
See the art that helped define the visual styles of this year’s five Oscar-nominated animated shorts.
Titles set to hit major platforms in March include ‘Agent Elvis,’ ‘The Magician’s Elephant,’ ‘Kiff,’ ‘Boy and the World,’ and ‘Inu-Oh.’
Netflix led all companies with 11 wins across 32 categories, while Disney floundered.
Visual effects supervisor Laurens Ehrmann also won a César for his work on ‘Notre Dame on Fire.’
Using dark, absurdist humor and nightmarish imagery, the duo has cooked up a body of work that is spellbinding, surreal, and often political.