GKIDS

  • Directing

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…

6 years ago
  • Directing

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…

6 years ago
  • Festivals

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…

6 years ago
  • Festivals

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…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

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…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

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…

7 years ago
  • Other

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…

8 years ago