Spain’s Revelations showcase has focused on shorts, not features, unveiling the huge breadth of animation talent and techniques in Spain.
Some shorts directors are already stars, such as Alberto Mielgo with the Oscar-winner “The Windshield Wiper.” Diego Porral, director of “Leopoldo From the Bar,” served as animation lead on “Love, Death + Robots” episode “Kill Team Kill.”
Standouts among new projects in Revelations included “Latente,” a Next Lab Generation winner from Carlos Zaragoza and Aurora Jiménez, and Martín Romero’s “To Bird or Not to Bird,” from Uniko and Abano Producións, which is a 2D short made largely in black and white featuring an angst-ridden clock cuckoo and other birds beset by environmental destruction.
Revelations climaxes with a special screening, the first in a cinema, of “Sith,” Rodrigo Blaas’ episode in Disney+’s “Star Wars: Visions.”
As for features, here are 10 toon titles to track. Further international co-productions – Mr.
Some shorts directors are already stars, such as Alberto Mielgo with the Oscar-winner “The Windshield Wiper.” Diego Porral, director of “Leopoldo From the Bar,” served as animation lead on “Love, Death + Robots” episode “Kill Team Kill.”
Standouts among new projects in Revelations included “Latente,” a Next Lab Generation winner from Carlos Zaragoza and Aurora Jiménez, and Martín Romero’s “To Bird or Not to Bird,” from Uniko and Abano Producións, which is a 2D short made largely in black and white featuring an angst-ridden clock cuckoo and other birds beset by environmental destruction.
Revelations climaxes with a special screening, the first in a cinema, of “Sith,” Rodrigo Blaas’ episode in Disney+’s “Star Wars: Visions.”
As for features, here are 10 toon titles to track. Further international co-productions – Mr.
- 5/21/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Buzz titles include animation ’Dragonkeeper’ and ‘Co-Husbands’.
Mafiz, the industry sector of the Málaga Film Festival, which closed on Sunday March 19, attracted its highest numbers of attendees to date, up 54% on last year.
In total. 1,897 industry players came from 64 countries, with a gender parity of 963 men and 934 women.
International promotion platform Spanish Screenings registered the highest number of participants at 206 buyers and producers. Overall by sector Mafiz attracted 1,095 producers, 206 buyers, 70 festivals delegates, 26 sales agents and 36 exhibitors and local distributors.
The Málaga Festival Fund & Co-Production Event project (Maff) scored 152 attendants and 568 one-to-one meetings around 39 Ibero-American projects.
The response from buyers has...
Mafiz, the industry sector of the Málaga Film Festival, which closed on Sunday March 19, attracted its highest numbers of attendees to date, up 54% on last year.
In total. 1,897 industry players came from 64 countries, with a gender parity of 963 men and 934 women.
International promotion platform Spanish Screenings registered the highest number of participants at 206 buyers and producers. Overall by sector Mafiz attracted 1,095 producers, 206 buyers, 70 festivals delegates, 26 sales agents and 36 exhibitors and local distributors.
The Málaga Festival Fund & Co-Production Event project (Maff) scored 152 attendants and 568 one-to-one meetings around 39 Ibero-American projects.
The response from buyers has...
- 3/20/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Confirming the increasingly strong interest by international buyers in Spanish animated features, Pink Parrot Media has scored a bevy of key European pre-sales on upcoming Spanish family adventure toon film “4 Days Before Christmas,” led by deals with Splendid in Germany and Kaleidoscope in the U.K.
Produced by Spain’s 3Doubles Producciones and Capitán Araña with Canada’s Pvp Media, directed by Steve Majaury and Andrea Sebastián, “4 Days Before Christmas” was one of the five noteworthy animated works in progress presented at this week’s Malaga Film Festival–Spanish Screenings to the international industry.
The film has also been acquired by Voxell por Cis territories, Gpi (Baltics), Fma (Former Yugoslavia), Kinoswiat (Poland), Front Row (Middle East), Just Ent. (Benelux), Romania (Sc Idea Films), Nos Lusomundo (Portugal) and Scandinavia (Angel Films).
“Spain and Canada, the countries in co-production, will be the first to hit theaters at the end of this year,...
Produced by Spain’s 3Doubles Producciones and Capitán Araña with Canada’s Pvp Media, directed by Steve Majaury and Andrea Sebastián, “4 Days Before Christmas” was one of the five noteworthy animated works in progress presented at this week’s Malaga Film Festival–Spanish Screenings to the international industry.
The film has also been acquired by Voxell por Cis territories, Gpi (Baltics), Fma (Former Yugoslavia), Kinoswiat (Poland), Front Row (Middle East), Just Ent. (Benelux), Romania (Sc Idea Films), Nos Lusomundo (Portugal) and Scandinavia (Angel Films).
“Spain and Canada, the countries in co-production, will be the first to hit theaters at the end of this year,...
- 3/16/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Malaga’s Animation Day showcases some of the most important animation features in the pipeline in Spain, all made with international partners.
On Tuesday, March 14, five recent outstanding Spanish animated works in progress will be pitched by their producers to the international industry during the event.
Animation Day forms part of Spanish Screenings Content at Malaga Festival’s industry zone Mafiz, supported by Icex Spain’s Trade & Investment entity with the collaboration of Diboos, the Spanish Federation of Animation Producers and the VFX Production Companies Associations.
The five Wip animated titles selected are “4 Days Before Christmas,” a produced by 3Doubles Producciones and Capitán Araña with Canada’s Pvp Media; Barcelona-based Doce Entertainment’s Latin American project “Dalia and the Red Book”; Salvador Simó’s Spain-China toon feature “Dragonkeeper”; Abano Producions, El Gatoverde and Uniko’s German co-production “Sultana’s Dream”; and “Rock Bottom,” a Spain-Poland co-production from Alba Sotorra, Jaibo Films and Gs Animation.
On Tuesday, March 14, five recent outstanding Spanish animated works in progress will be pitched by their producers to the international industry during the event.
Animation Day forms part of Spanish Screenings Content at Malaga Festival’s industry zone Mafiz, supported by Icex Spain’s Trade & Investment entity with the collaboration of Diboos, the Spanish Federation of Animation Producers and the VFX Production Companies Associations.
The five Wip animated titles selected are “4 Days Before Christmas,” a produced by 3Doubles Producciones and Capitán Araña with Canada’s Pvp Media; Barcelona-based Doce Entertainment’s Latin American project “Dalia and the Red Book”; Salvador Simó’s Spain-China toon feature “Dragonkeeper”; Abano Producions, El Gatoverde and Uniko’s German co-production “Sultana’s Dream”; and “Rock Bottom,” a Spain-Poland co-production from Alba Sotorra, Jaibo Films and Gs Animation.
- 3/14/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Both projects in production.
Canada and Madrid-based international sales agent Pink Parrot Media (Ppm) has been in talks with AFM buyers on new animation titles Scarygirl and 4 Days Before Christmas featuring voice casts with Sam Neil and Colm Feore.
Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) leads the voice cast on the CG-animated Scarygirl about a young girl with a tentacle-like arm who sets off to rescue her giant octopus father after he is kidnapped.
Arriving at the City of Light controlled by the mysterious Dr. Maybee, she discovers that all is not what it seems and this incredible new world is full...
Canada and Madrid-based international sales agent Pink Parrot Media (Ppm) has been in talks with AFM buyers on new animation titles Scarygirl and 4 Days Before Christmas featuring voice casts with Sam Neil and Colm Feore.
Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) leads the voice cast on the CG-animated Scarygirl about a young girl with a tentacle-like arm who sets off to rescue her giant octopus father after he is kidnapped.
Arriving at the City of Light controlled by the mysterious Dr. Maybee, she discovers that all is not what it seems and this incredible new world is full...
- 11/5/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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