Tag: Pierre-Luc Granjon
Connoisseur’s Choice: A Highly Subjective Guide to the Top Animated Shorts of 2025
From the festival circuit, this looks like a wide-open year for shorts chasing the statuette named after Steve Austin’s (a.k.a. The Six Million Dollar...
Brief Encounter: ‘The Night Boots’ Director Pierre-Luc Granjon Reflects on the Making of His Award-Winning Short
Earlier this year, French writer-director Pierre-Luc Granjon (The White Wolf, co-director on the 2023 feature The Inventor) took home the Oscar-qualifying short film Cristal...
‘The Night Boots’ Wins Grand Prix at Fredrikstad Animation Fest
The 2025 Fredrikstad Animation Festival has come to a close in the history-drenched Norwegian city, wrapping up days of screenings, filmmaker conversations and creative exchange...
Oscar Watch: An Early Dossier of the 2025 Qualified Animated Shorts
Every day new animated shorts qualify for the year-end quest for the big golden bald statuette. Keeping tab of all these amazing projects is...
‘Death Does Not Exist’ & ‘The Puppet and the Whale’ Win Top Prizes at OIAF 2025
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) has awarded Félix Dufour-Laperrière's La mort n’existe pas (Death Does Not Exist) the Grand Prize for Feature Animation and Roberto Catani's Il...
Do I Amuse You?: OIAF’s Festival Director Offers a Sneak Peek at the Popular Event
'Cartoons actually churn out more darkness and depravity (plus an unhealthy dose of cheese) than outright comedy. Animated films are dominated by dramas, and...
L.A.’s Animation Is Film Festival to Premiere Award Season Contenders ‘Arco,’ ‘Little Amelie,’ and ‘Scarlet’
L.A.’s Animation Is Film festival has unveiled the line-up for this year’s edition of the event (Oct. 17-19), featuring some of the most acclaimed...
The Animation Showcase Platform Launches Annecy 2025 Collection
The Animation Showcase, the free-for-industry streaming platform dedicated to international animated shorts and features. has announced its 2025 Annecy Festival Highlights Collection. Shorts screened at...
Pierre-Luc Granjon Charts the Creative Journey of His Annecy Cristal-Winning Short ‘The Night Boots’
Last Saturday, French writer-director Pierre-Luc Granjon (The White Wolf, co-director on the 2023 feature, The Inventor) took home the short film Cristal at Annecy...
Exclusive: Annecy Intl. Animation Festival Reveals Eclectic Lineup for Its 2025 Official Shorts Competition
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival has revealed the list of 35 shorts selected for the official competition in its upcoming edition, scheduled for...
Filmmaker Janice Nadeau on How ‘Harvey’ Came to Life
Fresh off its screening at the World Animation Summit in November, Harvey, by Canadian filmmaker Janice Nadeau, will enjoy continued exposure in Los Angeles...
Cracking the Da Vinci Code: Jim Capobianco Takes Us Behind the Scenes of ‘The Inventor’
When Pixar veteran Jim Capobianco was working on features such as Ratatouille, Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo, he spent his free hours developing a...
‘The Inventor’ Sets New September Release Date
Blue Fox Entertainment today announced that moviegoers will have to wait just a bit longer to check out the stop-motion Leonardo da Vinci movie, The...
‘The Inventor’ Trailer Animates da Vinci’s Spark of Genius
Blue Fox Entertainment has debuted the official trailer for The Inventor, the independent labor-of-love feature film that fancifully reimagines the life of the quintessential Renaissance...
Blue Fox Ent. Acquires Stop-Mo da Vinci Feature ‘The Inventor’
Blue Fox Entertainment announced today its acquisition of U.S. distribution rights to the animated comedy adventure The Inventor, which made its world premiere in...
FIAF Slates 28 U.S. Premieres for 2022 Animation First Festival
The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) will celebrate the fifth anniversary of Animation First this year: the only film festival in the U.S. dedicated...
We Are One Online Fest to Spotlight NFB, Annecy Animated Shorts
Seven works produced or co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) have been selected for We Are One, an unprecedented online film...
‘The Burden’ Wins Anima 2018 Grand Prix
The 37th Anima international animation festival of Brussels came to a close Sunday evening with a much anticipated awards ceremony, capping 10 days of...
NFB Closes Its First Cuban TV Deal
The National Film Board of Canada has secured its first television license deal in Cuba, which will see a slate of nine Canadian films...
‘Through the Hawthorn…’ Tops Stuttgart Honors
The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film concluded its 21st edition April 27 by announcing the winners of the Trickstar awards.
The festival reported a record...
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