Annecy showcases animated films
The 33rd Annecy Animated Film Festival (June 8-13) kicks off today with a line-up of 192 films.
Meanwhile, 1,900 professionals (including 180 buyers and 330 exhibitors) will gather at the Market (MIFA, June 10-12) for the co-production, acquisition, sales, financing and distribution of animated content.
In competition, ten features will vie for the 2009 Golden Crystal. These include Tomm Moore’s French/Irish/Belgian co-production The Secret of Kells [+see also:
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interview: Didier Brunner
interview: Tomm Moore
interview: Viviane Vanfleteren
film profile] and Rasmus A. Sivertsen’s Norwegian film Kurt Turns Evil [+see also:
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film profile].
The jury is composed of Karen Byot (head of film acquisitions at Arte France), Thomas Haegele (director of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy) and Bob Osher (president of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s digital production arm).
Nine features will also be presented out of competition. These include Danish titles Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms [+see also:
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The Travelling section will focus on German animation, while in Between Frames, eight features in production will be presented, including French films The Rabbi’s Cat by Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux, The Prodigies by Antoine Charreyron and Un monde truqué (“A Rigged World”) by Christian Desmares and Jacques Tardi; as well as Enzo d'Alò’s Italian/French/Belgian co-production Un Burattino di Nome Pinocchio (“A Puppet Named Pinocchio”); and Argentinean/Spanish feature Anima Buenos Aires.
Among the daily conferences, there will be a roundtable discussion of case studies on Wednesday, with speakers from the US’ DreamWorks Animation, France’s Def2Shoot and Folimage, and Luxembourg’s LuxAnimation.
(Translated from French)
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