Switzerland’s largest animation festival to host a raft of luminaries at its 2016 edition, including voice artist Peter Krause, filmmakers Georges Schwizgebel, Konstantin Bronzit and Kaspar Jancis, and DreamWorks Animation director and story artist Simon Otto.
Critically acclaimed stop-motion animated Cannes selection directed by Claude Barras is Best Foreign Language submission from Switzerland for the 2017 Academy Awards.
Produced by Lupus Films, hand-drawn, feature-length adaptation of the award-winning graphic novel by writer and illustrator Raymond Briggs is due in U.K. cinemas on October 28th.
Critically acclaimed 2D animated feature from multi-award winning director Keiichi Hara to open October 14 in New York and Los Angeles with North American expansion to follow.
China’s Alpha Group appoints former Disney and Paramount Animation exec Bob Bacon as CEO; new division to release its first animated feature in 2020.
Director of ‘Coraline’ and ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ to screen a selection of his personal shorts and participate in a Q&A on Saturday, October 1 at The Downtown Independent in Los Angeles.
‘Die Flucht,’ by Carter Boyce at DePaul University, ‘Once upon a Line,’ by Alicja Jasina at USC, and ‘The Wishgranter,’ by Echo Wu from Ringling College of Art and Design, named winners at the 2016 Student Academy Awards.
ASIFA-Hollywood and the Animation Educators Forum (AEF) select eight animation students to receive a total of $30,000 in scholarships for academic year 2016-17.
Chicago outpost of Deluxe-owned Beast, Company 3 and Method Studios expands talent pool; names Lauren Roth head of production.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to debut full-length animated feature film on October 6 on the main stage of the Javits Center; post-screening panel headlined by Adam West to follow.
New preschool property opens the world of natural science and exploration to all kids, with naturally inquisitive powerhouse Flora at the helm.
Life-size 2D/3D experience featuring 20 memorable moments from ‘South Park’ history, original art, daily screenings, and more runs at the Paley Center for Media through September 25.
Total of 39 projects in 13 categories selected from 1,076 entries to compete for the 20th anniversary of Germany’s animago AWARD.
Deadline for submissions to Brazil’s ANIMAGE - IV International Animation Festival of Pernambuco, running November 22-27, 2016 in Recife, Brazil, is September 11.
Wrapping the V&A’s ‘Clangers, Bagpuss & Co. Smallfilms’ exhibition, September 24 celebration of the art of stop-motion animation to include a talk from leading puppet maker Ian Mackinnon of Mackinnon & Saunders.
Boat Rocker Media’s newest acquisition takes over production of key projects at the recently-shuttered Toronto studio.
First full-length animated feature from Swiss director Claude Barras to be submitted into the running for an Oscar nomination in the Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards.
Guillaume Blanchet’s ‘Tea Time’ wins the award for best short film at Animaze 2016, the Montreal International Animation Film Festival & Industry Conference.
Major retrospective of Spanish animation features historic work from 1908 through 1975 featuring artists, designers, humorists and studios including K-Hito, Francisco Macián, Robert Balser, José Antonio Sistiaga, Isabel Herguera, Javier Mariscal, Mercedes Gaspar, Rodrigo Blaas, Anna Solanas, César Díaz Meléndez, Nicolai Troshinky, Jossie Malis, Laura Ginès, Alberto Vázquez, Estudios Moro, Balet y Blay, and the Headless Studio.
Directed and produced by Pavel Sadílek with the involvement of Polish animation studio Se-ma-for and post-production specialists Magic Lab, ‘Nagano: The Birth of Heroes’ celebrates the Czech Republic ice hockey team’s victory at the 1998 Olympic Games.
Godzilla's first-ever animated feature film to be produced by the Tokyo-based animation studio behind Production I.G’s ‘Ghost in the Shell,’ ‘Knights of Sidonia,’ and the forthcoming ‘Blame!’ to be written by Gen Urobuchi and directed by Kobun Shizuno and Hiroyuki Seshita.
Highly-respected animation exec has worked in Canadian broadcast and production for more than 19 years, most recently overseeing all original productions for Corus Entertainment’s TELETOON network.
Discover some of the many worlds Kubo encounters in LAIKA head Travis Knight’s directorial debut, an epic action-adventure set in a fantastical Japan.
Stop-motion animated Swiss-French co-production selected to open the 14th International Animation Film Festival Baden, Switzerland; other features in the spotlight include LAIKA’s ‘Kubo and the Two Strings,’ Michael Dudok de Wit’s ‘The Red Turtle,’ Chris Prynoski’s ‘Nerdland,’ Sang-ho Yeon’s Seoul Station,’ and more.
The Academy teams up with New York’s Museum of Modern Art to present a restoration of Richard Williams’s ‘The Thief and the Cobbler: A Moment in Time. 1992.’ with special appearances by the director and a discussion with animation historian John Canemaker.
