Following in the footsteps of the Cannes Film Festival, the head of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival has signed a pledge to promote gender equality and transparency at the festival as well as on the planning organization’s staff.
As in Cannes, the signing of the pledge Tuesday was orchestrated by women’s group Le Deuxième Regard and 5050×2020, a movement that was launched in France in the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and that advocates for gender parity and diversity in film, TV and animation film festivals. The organizations Women in Animation and Les Femmes s’Animent were also driving forces behind the signing.
Patrick Eveno, the CEO of Citia, the organization which puts together the Annecy festival and its affiliated market, Mifa, pledged to provide “a genre-based breakdown of regular statistics, including the number of films that have been submitted by women; be transparent about the members...
As in Cannes, the signing of the pledge Tuesday was orchestrated by women’s group Le Deuxième Regard and 5050×2020, a movement that was launched in France in the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and that advocates for gender parity and diversity in film, TV and animation film festivals. The organizations Women in Animation and Les Femmes s’Animent were also driving forces behind the signing.
Patrick Eveno, the CEO of Citia, the organization which puts together the Annecy festival and its affiliated market, Mifa, pledged to provide “a genre-based breakdown of regular statistics, including the number of films that have been submitted by women; be transparent about the members...
- 6/13/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
European CGI Studio TeamTO has produced a Virtual Reality welcome video for the 2018 Annecy Animation Film Festival edition, featuring the star of hit series “Angelo Rules.”
Angelo, the toon series’ main character, a 11-year-old sweet-talking genius child with a knack for getting out of trouble, will take festival attendees on an energetic skateboarding romp across the town.
From the opening of the festival, they will be able to experience the madcap ride in 360º Vr by using a mobile app and a pair of glasses slipped into each badge-holder’s bag. They also will be able to test the Vr version directly in the creation room at Bonlieu Theatre.
“Annecy 2018 will be making an even bigger space for Vr this year. For this reason we are particularly thrilled that TeamTO, to whom we are very grateful, has created this Vr experience for our Festival goers,” said Patrick Eveno, director of Citia,...
Angelo, the toon series’ main character, a 11-year-old sweet-talking genius child with a knack for getting out of trouble, will take festival attendees on an energetic skateboarding romp across the town.
From the opening of the festival, they will be able to experience the madcap ride in 360º Vr by using a mobile app and a pair of glasses slipped into each badge-holder’s bag. They also will be able to test the Vr version directly in the creation room at Bonlieu Theatre.
“Annecy 2018 will be making an even bigger space for Vr this year. For this reason we are particularly thrilled that TeamTO, to whom we are very grateful, has created this Vr experience for our Festival goers,” said Patrick Eveno, director of Citia,...
- 5/17/2018
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Embracing Hollywood’s animation grandees, France’s Annecy Intl. Animation Festival will screen exclusive first images of Disney’s “Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck It Ralph 2.” It will also host a world premiere of an unfinished version of Sony Pictures Animation’s Adam Sandler-voiced “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation,” presented by director Genndy Tarkovsky, the Festival announced Monday in Paris unveiling its full 2018 line-up.
In feature terms, Annecy will open with Michel Ocelot’s Wild Bunch-sold “Dilili in Paris,” with the celebrated French director, whose “Kirikou and the Sorceress” brought down the flag on Europe’s arthouse animation build, attending Annecy to present the feature.
Special sneak peek screenings for “Wreck It Ralph 2” and “Hotel Transylvania 3” join director Dean DeBlois’ work-in-progress footage presentation of “How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,” from DreamWorks Animation, which will open and close Annecy with two titles from its shorts program: “Bird Karma” and “Bilby.
In feature terms, Annecy will open with Michel Ocelot’s Wild Bunch-sold “Dilili in Paris,” with the celebrated French director, whose “Kirikou and the Sorceress” brought down the flag on Europe’s arthouse animation build, attending Annecy to present the feature.
Special sneak peek screenings for “Wreck It Ralph 2” and “Hotel Transylvania 3” join director Dean DeBlois’ work-in-progress footage presentation of “How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,” from DreamWorks Animation, which will open and close Annecy with two titles from its shorts program: “Bird Karma” and “Bilby.
- 4/23/2018
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Our weekly Film Festival Roundup column explores notable stories and news updates from the circuit. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.
Producer and distributor Gkids has a big idea for the animated world, best expressed in three little words: Animation Is Film. It’s both a philosophy and the name of a newly announced festival cooked by the company best known for bringing animated offerings from Studio Ghibli and other rising stars (think “My Life as a Zucchini” and “My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea”) to domestic screens. Gkids will launch the festival this October in partnership with both France’s own Annecy International Animation Film Festival and IndieWire’s sister publication, Variety.
Envisioned as an annual event, the inaugural edition of the festival will run October 20 – 22 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theater in Hollywood (better known to most as Mann’s Chinese Theater), complete with a showcase of 20 programs that includes feature films in competition, special presentations, retrospectives and short film programs.
Animation Is Film has been designed with a very specific goal in mind, to bring a world-class animation festival to the U.S. which, unlike Europe and Asia, is severely lacking when it comes to such annual offerings. Other countries boast animation-centric festivals like Annecy, Montreal’s Stop Motion Festival, the Ottawa International Film Festival, and the Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival, but the U.S. doesn’t have such large-scale events, instead festivals often screen animated films as part of other sections. Animation Is Film hopes to fill that gap and provide a new space for larger audiences to enjoy animated films in every form.
Read More: Gkids Supercut Pays Tribute to the Indie Animated Film Distributor — Watch
But while the festival’s most obvious aim is to bring high-quality animated offerings to North America via a splashy new event, its official mission reveals that the fest is also focused on exploring other needs in the industry, including an emphasis on supporting female filmmakers and other underrepresented groups. Animation Is Film doesn’t just want to screen the best in animation to its audience, it also wants to highlight and explore up-and-coming talents, new styles of work, and push past traditional ideas of the very medium itself.
Animation Is Film is built around five core missions, including “presenting a highly selective, annual showcase of the best new works of animation from around the world,” though it will also “champion and support filmmakers who use animation to pursue unique cinematic visions and who are unconstrained by conventional notions of what animation is capable of.” And those filmmakers? Aif hopes they can represent all sorts of creators, from female filmmakers to “filmmakers from a wide range of cultural, economic, and national backgrounds.”
In an official statement, Gkids Founder and CEO Eric Beckman commented, “Creating a stateside film festival that recognizes the highest aspirations of animation as a cinematic art form has long been a dream of Gkids. We are thrilled…[to] bring exceptional animated filmmaking from around the world to audiences.”
Beckman is joined on the festival organizing committee by Patrick Eveno, Mickaël Marin, Marcel Jean, Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, Steven Gaydos, Peter Debruge, and Fumi Kithara.
Check out the rest of our weekly Film Festival Roundup on the next page.
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Producer and distributor Gkids has a big idea for the animated world, best expressed in three little words: Animation Is Film. It’s both a philosophy and the name of a newly announced festival cooked by the company best known for bringing animated offerings from Studio Ghibli and other rising stars (think “My Life as a Zucchini” and “My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea”) to domestic screens. Gkids will launch the festival this October in partnership with both France’s own Annecy International Animation Film Festival and IndieWire’s sister publication, Variety.
Envisioned as an annual event, the inaugural edition of the festival will run October 20 – 22 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theater in Hollywood (better known to most as Mann’s Chinese Theater), complete with a showcase of 20 programs that includes feature films in competition, special presentations, retrospectives and short film programs.
Animation Is Film has been designed with a very specific goal in mind, to bring a world-class animation festival to the U.S. which, unlike Europe and Asia, is severely lacking when it comes to such annual offerings. Other countries boast animation-centric festivals like Annecy, Montreal’s Stop Motion Festival, the Ottawa International Film Festival, and the Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival, but the U.S. doesn’t have such large-scale events, instead festivals often screen animated films as part of other sections. Animation Is Film hopes to fill that gap and provide a new space for larger audiences to enjoy animated films in every form.
Read More: Gkids Supercut Pays Tribute to the Indie Animated Film Distributor — Watch
But while the festival’s most obvious aim is to bring high-quality animated offerings to North America via a splashy new event, its official mission reveals that the fest is also focused on exploring other needs in the industry, including an emphasis on supporting female filmmakers and other underrepresented groups. Animation Is Film doesn’t just want to screen the best in animation to its audience, it also wants to highlight and explore up-and-coming talents, new styles of work, and push past traditional ideas of the very medium itself.
Animation Is Film is built around five core missions, including “presenting a highly selective, annual showcase of the best new works of animation from around the world,” though it will also “champion and support filmmakers who use animation to pursue unique cinematic visions and who are unconstrained by conventional notions of what animation is capable of.” And those filmmakers? Aif hopes they can represent all sorts of creators, from female filmmakers to “filmmakers from a wide range of cultural, economic, and national backgrounds.”
In an official statement, Gkids Founder and CEO Eric Beckman commented, “Creating a stateside film festival that recognizes the highest aspirations of animation as a cinematic art form has long been a dream of Gkids. We are thrilled…[to] bring exceptional animated filmmaking from around the world to audiences.”
Beckman is joined on the festival organizing committee by Patrick Eveno, Mickaël Marin, Marcel Jean, Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, Steven Gaydos, Peter Debruge, and Fumi Kithara.
Check out the rest of our weekly Film Festival Roundup on the next page.
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- 6/23/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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