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Former Pixar director J.G. to helm 3D animated feature film HUMP for MovieBrats

Berlin-based production house MovieBrats Pictures lands at this year's Festival de Annecy/MIFA with the announcement that its 3D animated desert adventure HUMP will be directed by former Pixar director J.G. from a script by Sundance Film Festival Award winner director Amin Matalqa and Matthew Antonelli. HUMP tells the adventurous story of a clumsy camel, Rami, who sets out on an epic journey to find his best friend, a Bedouin boy named Omar. Joined by a cunning desert fox claiming to be a p...

Animation Day in Cannes goes to to Annecy

  WWW.ANIMATIONDAYINCANNES.COM  www.filmfestivals.com/blog/animation_day_in_cannes   #animationdayincannes       @animationdayinc       Facebook Email us to promote animation in our Annecy newsletters  In case you missed Animation Day in Cannes:  we bring it to you straight into your mailbox, with 51 videos, 102 trailers,  133 photos, panels and stories. ...

Animation Day in Cannes recognized worldwide Join us in Montreal August 18-21 animation celebration

Animation Day in Cannes recognized as top festival event worldwide according to film freeway reviews and extensive coverage from Variety, Ecran Total to Al Jazeera   Our darling artist "in residence Cannessur le Croisette PAB.  Lovely Marie Claude Beauchamp - Producer extraodinaire and president of AQA - the ever fabulous Bruno Chatelin Editor in Chief Filmfestivals.com, The beaming winner of Animation Day in Cannes director Bilal Ayman Jamal and myself Laurie Gordon yo...

Animation Day in Cannes has ranked in top 2.5% of among more than 4,000 film festivals and creative contests around the world

Animation Day in Cannes has ranked as one of the Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals on FilmFreeway for the month of May! According to reviews from real FilmFreeway users, your festival ranks in the top 2.5% of among more than 4,000 film festivals and creative contests around the world. No doubt, this ranking is a testament to the countless hours of hard work and care that you and your staff have devoted to creating such a wonderful event. We’re especially proud to be partnered with amazin...

Animation Day in Cannes Video Channel: Ambiance and Trailers from Animation Day in Cannes

48 videos, panels, awards, networking and ambiance from a very successfull edition of Animation Day in Cannes. 102 Trailers from Animation Day in Cannes. "The whole Cannes Animation Day experience was first rate. I have to thank you for organising Animation Day in Cannes. Without your support my time in Cannes would have been totally wasted. I made several useful connections and was able to demonstrate the project to Mike Plante of the New Horizons section of the Sundance Film...

Partners supporting Animation Day in Cannes

FOUNDING PARTNERS   Filmfestivals.com Animazefestival.com Musivision Films INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS   SACD  Société des Auteurs Compositeurs Dramatiques  www.sacd.fr AQA Alliance Quebec Animation NEF Animation http://nefanimation.fr/anglais/ NEF Animation is a francophone plateform for professionals dedicated to the writing of and about animated film. MEDIA PARTNERS    www.awn.com Animation Worl...

Strong Coverage on Animation Day in Cannes

Palais Screening of Animation Day in Cannes Discoveries mentionned on the Pocket Guide. And guess who has two logos on the front cover of same Pocket Guide?      Fantastic 5 minutes video interview on aljazeera TV mentionning the key films in our selection, Bilal, Apes, Shonku Diaries, East End, Maskman...Clic to view!     Letter from one of our filmmakers in focus: George Snow Hello fellow...

Al Jazeera on Bilal and the state of animation with Animation Day in Cannes

Al Jazeera flew in to cover Animation Day in Cannes. Check the full video interview.    Laurie Gordon talking to Paris correspondent Jacky Rowland Al Jazeera interview Bilal director producer Ayman Jamal and Laurie Gordon producer of Animation Day in Cannes (with Filmfestivals.com) and director of the Montreal International Animation Film Festival. Having the opportunity to speak to Al Jazeera about the state of animation Gordon reflects on the voice that is given t...

New Plympton's feature mockumentary HITLER’S FOLLY available for free on www.plymptoons.com

Bill Plympton's Mockumentary HITLER'S FOLLY (To release digitally June 3)     As a special thank you to his loyal fans, Plympton will make film available for free streaming via his website: www.plymptoons.com PLYMPTOONS has announced the US release date of Bill Plympton’s new feature mockumentary HITLER’S FOLLY, a merciless satire in which Ado...

Parallel to our Animation that Matters Panel HP held a Cocktail reception Celebrating Stories that Change the World

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It was a cocktail event to bring the industry together on the matter of using film to provoke ground breaking global action. By shining the light on world issues and telling the stories that are important to be heard, the reach of the film industry can be used as a powerful medium to create social change.   The Oscar winning documentary, ‘A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,’ directed by Pakistani Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, is a brilliant example of this. It br...

Accolades and Awards from Animation Day in Cannes

Bilal                                 Ayman Jamal Best inspiring Movie Song of the Sea                 Tomm Moore    Winner at European Film Awards Prize remitted by Marion Doeing and Jurgen Bissinger (EFA  Le Repas Dominical            Céline Devaux Winner at Cesar and Clermont Ferrand   ...

Panel on Animation that Matters and Inspires

  5 pm - 5.45pm the UAE Pavilion Village International Riviera side N°136 Panel: Animation that Matters and Inspires Marie-Claude Beauchamp: President AQA, CEO Producer - CarpeDiem Film & TV, Ayman Jamal Director Producer from Barajoun Entertainment - Dubai Laurie Gordon Festival Director Montreal International Animation Film Festival  Yonathan Parienti CEO Horyou     ...

Presentations and WIP at Animation Day in Cannes Discoveries - May 18

Bilal Making of the battle scene                Ayman Jamal presenting the epic battle scene     The Shonku Diaries - A Unicorn Adventure         Varsha Bansal   APES (virtual reality project, 180º version)          George Snow    East End         &n...

Opening Panel on VR at Animation Day in Cannes

10.00 - 10.45 am Location: Salon La Renaissance  VR, Immersive Experiences, Dome, VR: what’s the financial model?   with Michel Reilhac, Melange VR expert, VR curator for Marché du Film Pavillon NEXT Laurie Gordon, Director of Montreal International Animation Film Festival (August 18 -21,  2016) Ana Serano, CFC X Media Lab & think tank George Snow VR Artist inroducing APES in Cannes   ...

Animation that Matters and Inspires panel at the UAE Pavilion with Awards Ceremony

5 pm - 5.45pm the UAE Pavilion Village International Riviera side N°136 Panel: Animation that Matters and Inspires Marie-Claude Beauchamp: President AQA, CEO Producer - CarpeDiem Film & TV, Ayman Jamal Director Producer from Barajoun Entertainment - Dubai Laurie Gordon Festival Director Montreal International Animation Film Festival  Yonathan Parienti CEO Horyou   5.45 ...

Scripts from Animation Day in Cannes

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        Cocopa     Giorgio Martignoni       A Whisker Past Midnight     Andrew Garrett         Local Sugar     Andrew Garrett    ...

May 18 time to celebrate Animation ANIMATION DAY IN CANNES Connections N°2

      WWW.ANIMATIONDAYINCANNES.COM  www.filmfestivals.com/blog/animation_day_in_cannes   #animationdayincannes       @animationdayinc       Facebook   Email us to promote animation in our newsletters?   Program of the animation Day in Cannes   May 18 Locations  Salon Renaissance 10 Bd du Midi Jean Hibert  UEA PAV Village Int...

Percept Picture Company (A Division of Percept Limited), brings strong line up of new Animation titles in Cannes

FEVER (unreleased)   Genre: Thriller Fever, starring Gemma Atkinson, is an upcoming sensuous, suspense thriller entirely shot in Switzerland. An Indian film with high production values and stunning locales, it tells the story of an assassin who takes on the identity of a writer to escape the law. Gemma Atkinson (of Christiano Ranaldo fame) and Catarina Murino (of James Bond’s Casino Royale fame) are the two beautiful and mysterious women in his life intrigue.  This taut, ...

Program of the animation Day in Cannes

May 18 Locations  Salon Renaissance 10 Bd du Midi Jean Hibert  UEA PAV Village International Riviera side 136      Festival or Market Badge required, no exception   Salon La Renaissance  9.00 - 10.00 Welcoming guests  10.00 - 10.45 am   'VR, Immersive Experiences, Dome, VR: what’s the financial model? ' with Michel Reilhac: Melange VR expert, VR curator for Marché du Film Pavillo...

Animation Day in Cannes Program revealed for tomorrow's celebration of Animation

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Animaze Daze Winners 1:05:39   Title Directors Runtime Scapegoat Gal Haklay , Shulamit Tajer 00:00:34 The Clockmaker's Dream Cashell Horgan 00:00:51 Maze Without Walls Steve Smith 00:04:22 Morning Coffee Tracy Miller-Robbins 00:01:00 ...

Laurie Gordon Moderator and Panelist at Animation Day in Cannes

Laurie Gordon was born and raised in Montreal Canada both her parents born in Budapest Hungary.  She is the director of Animaze a non profit organization which produces The Montreal International Animation Film Festival and Animation Day in Cannes. Laurie is also a media entrepreneur,  lover of new technology and  film director and producer. She regularly covers the film festival circuit for filmfestivals.com and is a regular speaker at industry conferences and film festival pa...

Marion Doering - Director of the European Film Academy to remit Prize during Animation Day in Cannes

Director: Marion Döring, Germany Marion Döring studied French and Portuguese at the University of Mainz from 1972 to 1975 and then, from 1976 to 1979, worked as a trainee and later editor at the daily newspapers Fuldaer Zeitung and Hessisch/Niedersächsische Allgemeine. Between 1980 and 1985 she worked as free-lance journalist in Berlin, from 1985 to 1988 as press attaché of the “750 Years Anniversary Berlin 1987″ and “Berlin - European Capita...

Meet Yonathan Parienti Speaker at our Panel Animation that Matter and Inspires

Yonathan Parienti CEO, Horyou In the wake of a promising career in finance, Yonathan Parienti resolved to found Horyou, the social network for social good. His strong knowledge of the international financial markets, drawn from his former senior executive responsibilities in major global banking groups such as JP Morgan Chase, Bank of China, and Julius Baer, added to his acknowledgement of the growing importance of the Internet. The infinite types of connections th...

Meet George Snow, speaker in our panel on VR

APE(S) - George Snow’s panoramic movie and immersive VR experience   My name is George Snow. I am a filmmaker. The immersive 3D environment APES is my creation. It was originally conceived as a 360º panoramic movie requiring 12 video projectors, a circular screen and a large room. Although the panoramic video work is complete I have been unable to find the funds to have it shown on a panoramic screen.   THE MOVIE will be shown in Cannes ...

Discover ADIC Animation Day in Cannes Discoveries

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ANIMAZE & FILMFESTIVALS.COM PRESENTING 2ND EDITION OF ANIMATION DAY IN CANNES TO OVER 250,000 PROFESSIONALS & MEDIA   On May 18th for the second consecutive year, animation film professionals will gather to celebrate the art of animation in Cannes during the annual film festival. This year’s event features screenings of animated shorts and feature films, discussions and networking events in various festival locations. Animation Day in Cannes is presented by Animaze: Th...

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