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Creators of Chicken Run Release A Pig’s Tail

A Pig's Tail

The Humane Soci­ety of the United States has teamed up with Acad­emy Award-winning film com­pany Aard­man Ani­ma­tions to pro­duce a four-minute ani­mated children’s film titled “A Pig’s Tale” expos­ing prob­lems with fac­tory farm­ing from the per­spec­tive of a piglet named Ginger.

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Gumball Up For Two British Academy Kids’ Awards

British Academy Kids

The TV series “The Amaz­ing World of Gum­ball” has received two nom­i­na­tions for the British Acad­emy Children’s Awards, orga­niz­ers announced Monday.

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Kids’ Delhi Safari Hits U.S. Theaters December 7

Delhi Safari

Delhi Safari,” directed by Nikhil Advani, will be in the­aters across the United States in the top 20 regional mar­kets fea­tured on over 70 screens start­ing Decem­ber 7, Applied Art Pro­duc­tions announced Wednesday.

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NFB Offering Free Animation Films and Workshops

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

The National Film Board of Canada is launch­ing the sixth edi­tion of Get Ani­mated!, bring­ing many of the country’s finest and fun­ni­est ani­mated films to com­mu­ni­ties across Canada in cel­e­bra­tion of Inter­na­tional Ani­ma­tion Day (Sun­day, Octo­ber 28).

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Hotel Transylvania Opens in 1st Place in Russia

Hotel Transylvania

There were many guests at “Hotel Tran­syl­va­nia” in Rus­sia over the week­end, where the ani­mated film opened at No. 1 with $5 mil­lion from 797 screens.

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Frankenweenie Collects $4.9 Million Overseas


Frankenweenie

Tim Burton’s comedy-horror ani­mated movie “Franken­wee­nie” opened in nine over­seas coun­tries over the week­end to take in $4.9 million.

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Waterloo Festival Announces Animated Feature Films

Waterloo Festival

Ontario’s Water­loo Fes­ti­val for Ani­mated Cin­ema has announced the first 12 films of the 12th edi­tion of the fes­ti­val, which runs from Novem­ber 15 to 18.

The lineup show­cases the increas­ingly pow­er­ful voice that fea­ture ani­ma­tion has in world cin­ema today. A unique film fes­ti­val cel­e­brat­ing the artistry of ani­mated fea­ture films, the Water­loo Fes­ti­val show­case is one of the most com­pre­hen­sive pub­lic exhi­bi­tions for ani­mated fea­ture films in the world.

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Peach Juice Bears Fruit at Vancouver Film Fest

Peach Juice

The ani­mated “Peach Juice,” directed by Brian Lye, Cal­lum Pater­son and Nathan Gilliss of British Colum­bia, earned Hon­ourable Men­tion for a Cana­dian Short Film at the 31st annual Van­cou­ver Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val, which con­cluded its 16-day run Fri­day. Con­tinue read­ing

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Who’s In At London Animation Festival

London International Animation Festival

The largest ani­mated film fes­ti­val in the United King­dom– the Lon­don Inter­na­tional Ani­ma­tion Fes­ti­val– has announced this years pro­gram. Included are over 280 films from thirty coun­tries com­pet­ing in 10 cat­e­gories. Show­cas­ing the best in British and inter­na­tional ani­ma­tion, this years fes­ti­val also includes sev­eral impor­tant pre­mieres, in addi­tion to attendee events and symposiums.

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MacPherson wins twice at Montreal World Film Fest


MacPherson

MacPher­son,” an ani­mated tale of friend­ship between a white man and a black man in Que­bec, was named both the best short film and best Cana­dian short at the Mon­treal World Film Festival.

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Winners From The Great White North

Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF)

The Ottawa Inter­na­tional Ani­ma­tion Fes­ti­val (OIAF) came to a close late last night, with clos­ing cer­e­monies held at the National Arts Cen­tre. This years fes­ti­val, which ran Sep­tem­ber 19th-23rd, fea­tured a spe­cial jury of chil­dren who voted on-appropriately– Best Short Ani­ma­tion Made for Chil­dren and the Best Tele­vi­sion Ani­ma­tion Made for Children.

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ParaNorman Retains First Place in UK; Nemo Finding Fourth

ParaNorman

Thanks to a No. 1 fin­ish in its sec­ond week­end in the United King­dom, Laika Entertainment’s Para­Nor­man made $3 mil­lion from 2,200 venues in 39 over­seas coun­tries this past weekend.

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Tayrona, Arc Partner for 4 Animated Feature Films

Arc Productions

Toronto-based com­pa­nies Tay­rona Films Inc. and Arc Pro­duc­tions have aligned for a multi-picture co-production part­ner­ship to pro­duce four ani­mated fea­ture films, Tay­rona pres­i­dent James Ordonez and Arc pres­i­dent and chief oper­at­ing offi­cer Jeff Young announced Fri­day at the Toronto Inter­na­tional Film Festival.

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Pirates Sets Sail For European Film Awards


European Film Awards

Aard­man Ani­ma­tions and Sony Pic­tures fea­ture The Pirates! Band of Mis­fits is the odds on favorite in this years Euro­pean Film Awards (EFA) com­pe­ti­tion. But is is not all clear sail­ing for the hit clay­ma­tion film. It is up against Igna­cio Fer­reras and his film Arru­gas (Wrin­kles) from Spain, and the Czech entry Alois Nebel from direc­tor Tomás Lunák.

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Oh Willy… Wins Award for European Animated Short

Cartoon d'or

The win­ner of this year’s Car­toon d’Or for best Euro­pean ani­ma­tion short film is Oh Willy, by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels.

The award was handed out Thurs­day at the Car­toon Forum at the Théâtre National de Toulouse in France. The other nom­i­nees were Zing, Edmond Was a Don­key, Tram and Flamingo Pride.

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