Canadian animator Cordell Barker, creator of the Oscar-nominated short films, “The Cat Came Back” and “Strange Invaders,” is now in production on “The Anta Claus of the South Pole.” Release is scheduled for 2026. The Tonic DNA/National Film Board of Canada co-production is produced in association with Crave, a division of Bell Media Inc., with […]

“Winnipeg, Seeds of Hope,” a co-production between Spain, Chile and Argentina, will be one of 11 titles competing in the Contrechamp Feature Films section of this year’s Annecy Animation Film Festival. The animated feature film is directed by Beñat Beitia Urresti (“Mummy, I’m a Zombie”) and Elio Quiroga (“Fotos,” “The Mystery of the King of […]

Paris-based sales company Charades has closed a raft of Asian deals on Kohei Kadowaki’s animated feature ‘We Are Aliens’ ahead of its Annecy International Animation Film Festival premiere in Competition.The Japanese-French co-production has sold to Geen Narae Media in South Korea, Hooray Films in Taiwan, Shaw Organisation in Singapore, Intercontinental Film Distributors in Hong Kong […]