Tag: Annecy Festival
Briarcliff Sews Up ‘Stitch Head’ Deal and Sets October U.S. Premiere
Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired United States distribution rights to the animated feature film Stitch Head, and will release the family adventure with a wide...
The Animation Showcase Platform Launches Annecy 2025 Collection
The Animation Showcase, the free-for-industry streaming platform dedicated to international animated shorts and features. has announced its 2025 Annecy Festival Highlights Collection. Shorts screened at...
Creator Shaddy Safadi Elucidates the Refined Points of His Annecy-Winning ‘Christo’ Series
Last month, an indie CG-animated series Christo: The Civilized Barbarian (“Hunting Party”) was the winner of the Annecy Cristal for best TV Series. Created...
Annecy Award-Winning Short ‘Les Bêtes’ Debuts on Vimeo (Extended Interview)
On the heels of its prize-winning run at the Annecy Festival this month, Michael Granberry's black-and-white, stop-motion animated short film Les Bêtes has launched an...
A Cure for Unbearable Solitude: Animation Veteran Aaron Blaise Returns to 2D with ‘Snow Bear’
An isolated polar bear finds ways to overcome his solitude in veteran animator Aaron Blaise’s new 2D-animated short. Titled Snow Bear, the lovingly crafted...
Annecy Festival 2025 Report: Sunny Days & Warm Welcomes to the Global Animation Community
This month, the "world capital of animated film" was overrun with artists, professionals, up-and-coming talents and film lovers from all over the world during...
Annecy Animation Fest Establishes Women Directors’ Residency
"As a global organization working toward gender equity in animation, WIA is proud to support this important residency for women directors. We applaud Annecy...
Pierre-Luc Granjon Charts the Creative Journey of His Annecy Cristal-Winning Short ‘The Night Boots’
Last Saturday, French writer-director Pierre-Luc Granjon (The White Wolf, co-director on the 2023 feature, The Inventor) took home the short film Cristal at Annecy...
‘Nils Holgersson: The New Adventure’ Animated Movie Takes Wing with Gold Valley & Siyah Marti
As the Annecy International Animation Film Festival came to a close, Chinese animation studio Gold Valley Films (GVF) and Türkiye's Siyah Martı Animation Studios...
Two Daughters Sneak Peeks ‘The Land of Sometimes’ at Annecy
Two Daughters Entertainment, the U.K. studio behind international hit Moley, hopped the Channel last week to make some wishes come true at France's Annecy Festival...
Custom Nuts & Baboon Animation Greenlight ‘Battuta’ Cartoon for 2 Seasons
Production partners Custom Nuts and Baboon Animation have greenlit Ibn Battuta, a new family-friendly comedy adventure for a 5–7 co-viewing audience. The companies have...
Future Gems: The Best of Annecy’s Work-in-Progress Spotlights
The work-in-progress section of the Annecy Festival felt as diverse as ever in the 2025 edition, with a wealth of upcoming series and features...
‘Arco,’ ‘ChaO’ and ‘The Night Boots’ Win Top Prizes at 49th Edition of Annecy Festival
The 2025 Edition of the Annecy Animation Festival drew to a close on Saturday night with the big Cristal awards ceremony during which French...
Industry Guilds Unite in Anti-AI Demonstration at Annecy Animation Fest
“The technology is a vehicle for exploitation. It’s a vehicle to extract data that people have worked their entire lives to create, they put...
Annecy Festival Announces Special Prize Winners of 2025
Ten prizes and two distinctions were awarded Friday at the Special Prizes Ceremony of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Presented by partners of the...
Annecy: Disney & Pixar Announce ‘Gatto,’ Sneak Peek ‘Zootopia 2,’ ‘Toy Story 5’ & ‘Hoppers’
Disney and Pixar shared an abundance of news, images and special presentations with the an excited audience of fans at Annecy on Friday.
In the...
LAIKA’s ‘ParaNorman’ Returns to Theaters for Halloween in Remastered RealD 3D with New Short Film
From Annecy today, LAIKA announced that its award-winning stop- motion animated film ParaNorman will once again haunt the big screen this Halloween for a...
Genndy Tartakovsky Developing ‘Heist Safari’ Animated Series for Adult Swim
Celebrated animator Genndy Tartakovsky — the tooned-up brain behind the adult-comedy movie Fixed (coming to Netflix on August 13), Sony's Hotel Transylvania franchise, the...
Animation Is Film Sets 2025 Dates & Unveils Poster
Los Angeles festival Animation Is Film, a co-presentation of Annecy International Animation Film Festival (AIF), GKIDS and Variety, has slated its 2025 event for...
Director Celia Catunda Offers a Sneak Peek at Pinguim’s New Movie, ‘My Grandfather Is a Nihonjin’
Among the many international animated features being unveiled at this year's Annecy Festival is My Grandfather Is a Nihonjin, a beautiful 2D-animated feature about...
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