Film’s French premiere slated for June 15, with an honorary Cristal Award to be presented to Bird for his acclaimed work.
Women directed or co-directed 46 percent of films that will screen in the festival.
Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s stop-motion animated short ‘The Burden’ fuses Gene Kelly and Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki into a proletariat existential musical about an assortment of loners, losers and minimum wage earners working dead-end jobs in a dead-end world.
The org’s current managing director and head of economic development assumes new role July 1.
Illustrator and graphic novelist from Quebec evokes classic 1930s travel for this year’s festival.
Group is the first organization to win the honor, which highlights those who have contributed to change in the animation industry.
Leading animation event set for June 11-16 in France.
GKIDS, Shout! Factory release will include short films by director Sébastien Laudenbach.
Cult Classic ‘Mind Game’ plus new features ‘Lu Over the Wall’ and ‘Night is Short, Walk on Girl’ will be released in 2018.
Feb. 5 is the deadline for getting in on the project, held in conjunction with the Annecy festival.
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival & Market will be held June 11-16, 2018.
‘The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales’ takes Special Jury Prize.
The thematic short film program by women creators will screen Oct. 22, the final night of the Hollywood festival’s inaugural edition.
Tickets on sale now for acclaimed adaptation of the best-selling manga through distributor Eleven Arts.
Rotoscoped feature, which debuted at Cannes and played in competition at Annecy, is being prepped for a February release.
The French production company has an exciting slate of co-productions following this year’s MIFA at Annecy, France, including animated series and features, with companies like Future Dog Studio, Nippon Animation and Michele Guaschino Studio.
Roald Dahl fairy tale adaptation ‘Revolting Rhymes’ wins Cristal For Best TV Production.
Sweden’s ‘The Burden’ directed by Niki Lindroth Von Bahr wins Cristal Award for a Short Film; Japanese director Masaaki Yuasa’s ‘Lu Over the Wall’ receives Cristal for a Feature Film.
Inaugural edition to take place October 20-22, 2017 at Mann’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles.
Two new CG-animated series -- ‘Improbable Pirate Adventures’ and ‘Time Travelling Caveman Scientist’ -- to be produced at Montreal-based 3D and VFX studio using the Unreal 4 game engine.
The free, unconventional, six-month professional training program for students with no previous experience will consider natural ability, and is scheduled to launch in Bourg-lès-Valence, France in 2018.
The network will evoke discussion of international production at Annecy in a panel led by ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ creatives.
The film’s producers Iryna Kostyuk, Egor Olesov and Anna Eliseeva will present the in-development film’s teaser introducing the protagonists on June 15 at MIFA.
Special print edition distributed at Annecy 2017 celebrates a year’s worth of creative excellence since industry professionals last gathered in France at the world’s largest and most prestigious film festival dedicated to the art of animation.
Laura Laas will be responsible for selling Gaumont’s animated television series within the EMEA territories and North America, as well as solidifying partnerships for worldwide co-productions.
