XPost: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.movies.current-films, rec.arts.animation
From: YourName@YourISP.com

From Variety.com ...


Guillermo del Toro Announces Guadalajara International Animation Center
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Guillermo del Toro is creating an International Animation Center
specializing in stop, motion in his home city of Guadalajara Mexico,
the director announced Saturday morning at the Guadalajara Festival,
at a masterclass given by Melissa Cobb, Netflix vice president, kids
& family.

Details remain scarce, but the idea of one of the world's best known
cineasts leading the charge on an animation center in Mexico, whose
local animation industry is building fast this century, is exciting.

The announcement comes as Del Toro himself is making his animated
feature film directing debut for Netflix on "Pinocchio," a
stop-motion musical version of the children's classic.

The hub will be officially called the Centro Internacional de
Animacion, the CIA, Del Toro said at Guadalajara, eliciting audience
laughter.

But it is unofficially known as el Taller del Chucho (literally,
"Little Dog Workshop," encouraging the predominantly young
Guadalajara audience, if they wanted a career in animation, to join
the workshop and do any job available in the first instance.

Stop-motion is "one of the few things you can do with little money,
with few friends, at a scale that is possible," the Mexican director
added.

The CIA's role will be to support and service the burgeoning
stop-motion animation industry which already exists in Guadalajara,
he added, saying that he was getting involved "completely out of
love of animation and that's it."

"There is real talent in stop-motion in Guadalajara," Del Toro
enthused, saying that the Center also aimed to invite production
houses from outside to come and give us training workshops, and to
"create a connection between Guadalajara and the international
market."

It might not be coincidental that Del Toro made the announcement of
the Guadalajara Intl. Animation Center in conversation with
Netflix's Melissa Cob.

Kids & family entertainment is one of Netflix trinity of basic
release pillars, with comedies and dramas, according to an Ampere
Analysis study of Netflix releases.

As studios such as Disney have famously pulled programming from
Netflix, the U.S. streaming studio must look to other sources to
make up the shortfall. Foreign-language animation is one, and a
programming which can easily travel: Kids don't care or indeed
distinguish where animation comes from, just whether they like it.

Presented at Annecy's Mifa market last year, and produced by former
Mexican Cinematheque director Paula Astorga and producer Milko Luis,
 "Inzomnia," said to be Mexico's first stop-motion animation
feature, has been developed and put into pre-production at
Guadalajara.

That is just one production from Guadalajara which can look to a
domestic audience in Mexico which is the world's third biggest
market for animation in terms of tickets sold, after the U.S. and
China, according to a European Audiovisual Observatory study.


<https://variety.com/2019/film/festivals/guillermo-del-toro-guadalajara-international-animation-center-1203159344/>





--- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)