Tag: Annecy Festival
Sony Pictures Animation & Imageworks Launch Empowering Shorts Program
Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks have partnered to develop a new leadership training program intended to provide high-potential candidates from underrepresented groups...
Annecy Unveils Short Film Selections with Premieres from John Musker, Franck Dion
Organizers of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival have released the official selection lists for this year's short films program, chosen from more than 3,200 submissions...
Annecy Unveils 2023 Poster Designed by Jorge R. Gutierrez
France's esteemed Annecy Festival will this year be spotlighting Mexican animation — and the country's colorful influences are on full display in the newly revealed...
Annecy Festival Announces 2023 Residency Winners
The new batch of animation talents selected for the 2023 Annecy Festival Residency — running April 3 to June 30 next year — have...
Exclusive: The Creature Wranglers of ‘Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai’ Give Us a Sneak Peek
***This article originally appeared in the 35th Anniversary Issue of Animation Magazine (June/July '22, No. 321)***
It’s been 38 years since director Joe Dante introduced us to...
Exclusive: Genndy Tartakovsky Discusses the Prehistoric Perfection of ‘Primal’ S2
***This interview was conducted for the upcoming August '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 322)***
When Genndy Tartakovsky’s five-time Emmy-winning series Primal premiered on Adult...
Epic Games Launches Animation Week Celebrating Unreal Engine Storytelling
Epic Games today released the new Animation Field Guide, as part of its Animation Week kick off taking place from June 27-July 1. The...
Annecy Round-Up: ‘Coop Troop’ Takes Flight, ‘AquaTeam’ Expands, WIA Summit Streaming & More
BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated children’s TV creators and producers Sixteen South Originals (Northern Ireland) and Mikros Animation IP (France) today hatched the trailer and first episode...
Annecy Awards Special Prizes, Partners’ Honors
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival unveiled the winners of its nine Special Prizes on Friday evening during an awards ceremony at the Bonlieu. The...
Disney Offers Exclusive Looks at ‘Strange World,’ ‘Baymax!’ & ‘Zootopia+’ at Annecy
Strange World, the upcoming feature from Walt Disney Animation Studios, won’t play in French theaters, owing to a spat over windowing. The clips exclusively...
Exclusive: Cyber Group’s Pierre Sissmann Discusses Expansions to the Studio’s Giant Footprint
***This article originally appeared in the 35th Anniversary Issue of Animation Magazine (June-July '22, No. 231)***
Cyber Group Studios is one of the most active indie...
DNEG Animation Shows Off Busy Slate at Annecy, Dissolves Sports Ventures Acquisition Agreement
DNEG Animation was excited to give a 'proper hello' to the animation world at this week's 2022 Annecy Festival.
Previously considered a start-up housed within...
BFI Short Form Animation Fund Invests Over £1 Million in 15 New Projects
The BFI is investing £1.1 million in 15 new, bold and ambitious animation projects, announced as the recipients of the latest round of the BFI Short...
Annecy WIP: The Latest from Tartakovsky, Trueba, Aardman & More
A growing strand of Annecy Festival is the “works in progress” section, where the projects of tomorrow — features, series, shorts, extended-reality experiences —...
Disney Sets Massive TV & Streaming Animation Slate at Annecy
Today, Disney Television Animation, Disney Junior and Disney Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) took to the stage at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival to announce...
Trio of ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Films Slated, Lauren Montgomery Directing First Flick
Lauren Montgomery (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Voltron: Legendary Defender) is attached to direct an untitled, animated Avatar film currently in development under the Avatar...
Exclusive: Lupus Films Adapts ‘Storm Whale’ Books to Animated Trilogy (Watch Animation Test)
London-based Lupus Films announced today that they are in development for a series of three films based on the award-winning Storm Whale books by...
Blue Water Seeks Animation Partners for Documentary Feature ‘Kohola’
Sundance alum filmmaker Greg Reitman (Fuel, Rooted in Peace) of Blue Water Entertainment is looking to collaborate with a state-of-the-art animation company for his...
First Look: Netflix Animation Spotlights Upcoming Shows at Annecy
***This article originally appeared in the 35th Anniversary Issue of Animation Magazine (June-July '22, No. 321)***
Among the many studios from around the world gathering in France...
Miyu, Modern Magic Team for YA Fantasy ‘The Long Night’
Miyu Productions (France) is joining forces with Modern Magic — the new Los Angeles animation studio set up by Oscar-winning writer-director-producer Rodney Rothman (Spider-Man:...
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