All posts tagged "GKIDS"
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A Bird in the Hand: The Journey of Birdboy: The Forgotten Children From Personal Graphic Novel to Hand-Drawn Feature
Adorably macabre and philosophically stimulating, Alberto Vazquez and Pedro Rivero’s Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (known in Spanish as Psiconautas, los niños olvidados)... -
From Kabul to Kilkenny: How Nora Twomey’s Empowering The Breadwinner Utilizes The Universality Of Storytelling
Far away from the sparkly castles and enchanted kingdoms where Disney princesses exist, Parvana, a young Afghan girl living under Taliban rule,... -
New Kid in Town: Animation Is Film Brings Much-Deserved Exposure to International Animated Titles
On Friday, October 20, Angelina Jolie walked the—well, blue—carpet of the Chinese Theater in Hollywood for the inaugural edition of Animation Is... -
Animation is Film: This New LA Animation Festival is on a Mission
Eric Beckman, founder of animated film distributor GKIDS, has had quite the year. This past June, the long-time theatrical distributor of the... -
Indie Animated Delight: 2014 French Feature Mune: Guardian of the Moon Opens For One Day in U.S. Theaters
Experimentation involves risk, a factor that doesn’t figure into the equation of the increasingly homogeneous list of studio films—both live action and... -
Brothers Grimm in Watercolor, Breathing: Sébastien Laudenbach on Animating The Girl Without Hands
French animator Sébastien Laudenbach’s ethereal first feature The Girl Without Hands, based upon the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same title,... -
The 18th Annual Animation Show of Shows: a Wondrous Potpourri of Techniques, Budgets and Genres
These days, feature animation is an exorbitantly profitable business, one that keeps major studios racing to assemble the next four-quadrant CG hit—since...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Mads Mikkelsen
From Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be seen stretching his dramatic skills across the board these...Inside the Issue: Directing
The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45 of their makers were first-timers. The fest’s...1Inside the Issue: How To
Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry
Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies of David Cronenberg films and, with...