One delight every year at Annecy is its showcase of new films by established talent, on-the-rise directors and names near off the radar. France has all three in 2020: “Bigfoot Family” (Ben Stassen,…
Produced by French animated art pic powerhouses Maybe Movies and Sacrebleu, like Chayé’s prior and admired Annecy winner “Long Way North” an exquisitely drawn portrait of a strong woman, here wrapped in the imagined origins story of the making of free spirit Calamity Jane.
Shown at Tribeca, a sci-fi tale exploring the emotional world miscarriage, pregnancy loss and family made as a VR short for single head-set users and set in a photorealistic CG interactive story world in contemporary Rotorua, New Zealand.A further French WIP Features presentation, from Alain Ughetto, director of the singular ‘70s Iran set claymation love story “Jasmine.” Here he returns with another stop-motion tale, about his grandfather, who emigrated from Italy’s Piedmont to the U.S.
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