June 8 to 13, 2009, France, the Ancienne International Animated Film Festival was held in the eastern city of Ancienne, France, Germany was invited to serve as the guest country of honor of this animated film festival. The Australian animated film "Mary and Max" and the American animated film "Ghost Mother" **** both won the best feature-length animated film at the festival.
The movie "Mary and Max," about the friendship between a chubby little Australian girl and an obese New Yorker, was seen as a semi-autobiographical film by director Adam Elliott. And the animated film Ghost Mother uses 3D to tell a noirish tale of psychoanalysis. Serge Blomberg, Artistic Director of the Anglesey International Animated Film Festival, noted, "Due to the difficulty in separating the two films, the jury had to decide to cancel the 2009 Special Encouragement Award in the Feature Animation category, and to award the festival's highest prize, the Best Feature Animated Film, to both films. " *** Ten entries competed for the Best Feature Animated Film at the 2009 Ensemble Animation Film Festival, including, in addition to the two award-winning films, the DreamWorks 3D animated feature "Monsters vs. Aliens" as well as new animated works "Little Village Scare" and "Rascal," both of which were presented at the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival. On June 11, 2011, the 2011 Ancienne International Animated Film Festival in France came to a successful conclusion. The organizer, CITIA, claimed that ***1,922 entries were received from all over the world, and that more than 7,000 people from more than 70 countries participated in the animation festival.
This year's festival **** has 42 short films, 37 TV series, 21 animated commercials, 59 student works and other 172 works were shortlisted for final judging in the competition section. After several days of fierce competition, the French animation director Anthony Derlethwa and Euan Shifa shot the animated film "Jewish Elder's Spirit Cat (The Rabbi's Cat)" won the long animation category of the highest awards "Crystal Award", the Japanese animation director Keiichi Hara directed a feature film "Accidental Lucky Strike (Colorful)" won the same time, but also won the "Crystal Prize". Colorful," directed by Japanese animation director Keiichi Hara, won two other awards in the feature animation category, the Audience Award and the Special Award.
The top prize in the short animation category also went to a French production, "PIXELS," an amusing portrayal of a New York suburb that is "attacked" by eight video game characters, with references to LEGO toys and classic game titles such as "Space Invaders," "Pacman," "Tetris" and others. Elements of classic game titles such as Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Tetris were referenced in the film, while the short film Big Bang Big Boom, a mural about the origins of life, brought Italian artist Bruno the Special Jury Prize at the Ensemble.
The awards for TV films went to three European animations, and the best graduation work went to French youngster Ronan Cohen's graduation work Plato, which also won the Grand Jury Prize for Young People. Pixar's short film "Moon," which was expected to win, came up empty-handed.
In addition to a number of animated blockbusters, organizers screened Pixar's "La Luna," Disney's "The Ballad of Nessie" and Warner Bros.' "Coyote Falls and Rabbit Rider," among other new short-form animated films. and Coyote Falls and Rabbit Rider from Warner Bros. In addition, the festival attracted many animation companies and manufacturers from China. Among them, China and Japan co-produced the film "Tibetan Mastiff Duoji" was also selected for the feature animation competition unit.
In the evening of September 22, 2011, with the animation world "Oscar" reputation of the French Anglesey International Animation Film Festival award-winning works of film exhibition in Guangxi Guilin A world square grand opening, attracted nearly ten thousand Chinese and foreign tourists and citizens to come to watch. The award-winning works of the film exhibition is the third China Guilin Innovation and Creative Culture Festival and Guilin International Animation Festival is an important content. During the period, activities will also be held such as the Anglesey Animation Film Festival, animation academy, special exhibitions of animation enterprises, French experts' forums and animation exchange symposiums.
On September 23, 2011, the "China-Guilin Innovation and Creativity Culture Festival and Guilin International Animation Festival" signed a contract with the 51-year history of France's Anglesey International Animation Film Festival to establish a friendly festival cooperation relationship. Both sides said that a series of sincere cooperation between the two festivals will certainly promote cultural exchanges between China and France. At the Animation Industry Summit Forum held in Guilin, Guangxi, Dominique Bidou, President of France's Anglesey International Animation Film Festival, invited Chinese college students and animation lovers to send more animation works to Anglesey, and said that works rooted in the blood of Chinese culture have a more promising future in the world. He also said that Chinese animation practitioners can focus on the local elements of China, search for Chinese stories and create truly localized works. On June 4, 2012, one of the four major animation film festivals in the world, the Ancienne International Animation Film Festival in France opened. The organizers officially announced the final program and schedule of events for the festival, which will feature about 500 animated works over six days.
Information released by the organizers shows that the core events of the 2012 festival will include a screening of "The Suicide Shop" by French animator Patrice Leconte, a tour of Disney's short animation "Paperman," the U.S. animation "Brave" and "Old Man" and a screening of "The Rise and Fall of the Animation World. Brave" and "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax", and the screening of the documentary videos of the production of the American animation "Brave" and "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax". There will also be a wide range of exhibits, including the Ice Age series and the Suicide Shop.
The festival also featured an interesting program called "Thirty Years of Les Misérables: 1982-2012. Les Mystérieuses Cités d'Or (The Mysterious Cities of Gold) is a 1982 television anime co-produced by France and Japan, set in 16th-century South America, which follows the adventures of a young boy, Esteban, and his companions in their quest to find the fabled "City of Gold. "The movie was broadcast in France and was well received. The film was broadcast in France after a strong response, and has become a long favorite of French children's masterpieces.
It is reported that in order to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the birth of "The Mysterious City of Gold", French TV station TF1 will launch a new series in 2012. In the new movie, the main characters who have successfully found the "Golden City" in South America embark on a journey to China in search of a new "Golden City". The trailer for the new movie will also be released at this year's Anzai Animation Festival.