I've been off to Annecy for the annual animation film festival! It was so GREAT!!
Here are some pics of the town, really cute!
I saw a lot of movies, short, long, study, in or out competition, it was fantastic, I never ate so many movies in so few time! It was really cool, I met some very interesting people, and I learned a lot of things attempting to some speaches, so I really appreciated it! The only bad thing is that I caught a cold, so I couldn't be at my best brain capacities all the time!
Here are some movies I really appreciated (no particular order) :
You can click on each names of the movie to access to the description.
Long movies :
JIB
BATEELAER SAGA
DEN KAEMPESTORE BJORN
Short movies :
Fluffy Mc Cloud
Oh Happy Day
Die Kiste
La nuit de l'ours
M'échapper de son regard
Sudd
Birdboy
Don't tell Santa you're Jewish!
Graffitiger
Pixels
Something left, something taken
La Détente
Viagem a Cabo Verde
A morning Stroll
Chroniques de la poisse
I have also attended to a projection of Vinton's short movies, it was really interesting! There were few stop motion movies, that himself has picked as the best/more interesting of his work, and I must admitt that now that I've seen those movies, I want to see more movies from Vinton!^^
But, to me, the BEST PROJECTION EVER was the Disney's Laugh-O-Grams projection! Why? Because in the first part, there were (in world premiere) the restoration of some mute early Disney movies, and the president of the festival was live playing piano as it was at the projection in that time! It was so gorgeous!!
Sorry for the bad quality, that's the only "acceptable" picture I could take with my cell phone. The little (little little) light on the left is the President of the festival playing piano.
And to finish, I attended to some speaches from the Walt Disney Animation Studio team, I learned a lot of things and I could Speack to Dawn Rivera-Ernster (sorry I couldn't get a picture of her ) and Clay Kaytis that has helped me figure out one or two important points about important stuffs^^
Mike Giaimo, Art Director / Paul Briggs, Storyboard Supervisor / Clay Kaytis & John Karhs, Animation Supervisors.
And finally (really finally) I had the chance to chat a little little bit with Bill Plympton, and he dedicated me a kind of newspaper or something!
