Tag "Paul Risacher"

Distribution Deals Make the Scene at Annecy

June 11, 2013 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image

Deals for animated features have been heating up at the Annecy Film Festival. Among the major announcements made in the trades around or during the festival, which kicked off Monday and runs through Saturday in France, are: Oggy and the Cockroaches: The Movie, an adaptation of the international hit [...]

A Postcard from Cartoon Connection Canada

December 14, 2012 by Jean Thoren No Comments divider image

This past week, representatives from 140 European and Canadian animation companies gathered in the capital city of Quebec for the third edition of Cartoon Connection Canada. Created by Brussels-based, non-profit European association known as Cartoon, which also sponsors the popular Cartoon Movie and Cartoon Forum events in France, this year’s [...]

CMG Sells 3D ‘Legend of Sarila’ at AFM

November 4, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

L.A.-based Cinema Management Group has sold its Canadian 3-D stereoscopic animated feature The Legend of Sarila to Russia’s Luxor, Germany’s Telepool and Israel’s 5 Star Pictures at the American Film Market. The Legend of Sarila will be delivered in February and released early next year in Canada. Directed by Nancy [...]

Canada’s Modus FX Preps 3D Feature ‘Sarila’

June 1, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image

Montreal-based Modus FX has announced work on Sarila, which the studio says is the first stereoscopic 3D animated feature film created in Canada. Directed by Nancy Florence Savard, Sarila is a compelling coming-of-age story set among the Inuit people of the Arctic. The voice cast includes Christopher Plummer (The Sound [...]