Event Tag: Filmmaker Q&A

Blue Eye Samurai

In-person Q&A with Creators/Writers/Exec Producers Michael Green & Amber Noizumi and Supervising Director, Jane Wu Animation Is Film is proud to present this exclusive WORLD PREMIERE of the first episode of Netflix’s hotly anticipated new series, Blue Eye Samurai. This provocative and visually stunning cinematic series immerses the viewer in a world of vivid adult Blue Eye Samurai

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Q&A with Director Guillermo del Toro! Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reinvents Carlo Collodi’s classic tale of the wooden marionette who is magically brought to life in order to mend the heart of a grieving woodcarver named Geppetto. This whimsical stop-motion film directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson follows the mischievous and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Turning Red

Q+A with Director Domee Shi and Producer Lindsey Collins Disney and Pixar’s “Turning Red” introduces Mei Lee (voice of Rosalie Chiang), a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming (voice of Sandra Oh), is never far from her daughter—an Turning Red

Wendell & Wild

Q&A with director Henry Selick, and Character Designer Pablo Lobato In the almost twenty years since his iconic feature film debut, Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) has brought to the screen the perversely macabre worlds of Tim Burton, Roald Dahl, and Neil Gaiman. For his newest film – his first since 2009’s Coraline – Wendell & Wild

Aurora’s Sunrise

Q&A with Director Inna Sahakyan At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Four years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face Aurora’s Sunrise

Work-In-Progress: Strange World

Animation Is Film is proud to present this Behind-the-scenes, making-of presentation of Walt Disney’s 61st animated feature STRANGE WORLD. Academy Award-winning producer Roy Conli (Tangled, Big Hero 6) takes you on this exclusive, one-of-a-kind journey. This one hour presentation and Q&A is a rare opportunity to see exclusive footage from the new film with commentary Work-In-Progress: Strange World

Oni: Thunder God’s Tale

Q&A with Creator/Director Dice Tsutsumi, and Producers Robert Kondo, Sara K. Sampson, Kane Lee, and Momona Tamada (“Onari”). Animation Is Film is immensely proud to present the theatrical World Premiere of the 4-episode series on Netflix Anime from the visionary team at Tonko House. In a world filled with the oddball gods and monsters of Oni: Thunder God’s Tale

My Father’s Dragon

Q+A with Director Nora Twomey Co-founder of Ireland’s Cartoon Saloon, Oscar nominated Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner, AIF ’17) returns to Animation Is Film with this glorious adaptation of Ruth Stiles Gannett’s beloved children’s novel. After their family store is forced to close, Elmer (Jacob Tremblay) moves to the big city with his mother to start My Father’s Dragon

Unicorn Wars

Q&A with Director Alberto Vázquez The Bears, engaged in an ongoing war with the Unicorns who they believe stole their ancestral land, are sent deep into the Magic Forest in search of a platoon that never returned from a previous mission. Deep behind “enemy” lines, the divide between two brothers, Tubby and Bluey, is exacerbated Unicorn Wars

Summer Ghost

Q&A with Director loundraw A local urban legend claims that lighting fireworks at an abandoned airfield will call the “summer ghost,” a spirit that can answer any question. Three troubled teenagers – Tomoya, Aoi, and Ryo – do not know each other yet, but each has their own reasons to show up one day. When Summer Ghost

Luck

Q&A with Peggy Holmes (Director), David Eisenmann (Producer), and Kiel Murray (Screenwriter) – moderated by Academy Award® winner Rich Moore (“Zootopia”) From Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation comes the story of Sam Greenfield, the unluckiest person in the world! Suddenly finding herself in the never-before-seen Land of Luck, she must unite with the magical Luck

Oink

Q&A with Director Mascha Halberstad Nine year old Babs lives a fairly content life in her idyllic Dutch town, but it’s turned a bit upside down when her wild-card American Grandfather shows up and camps out in the back of the family home. To Babs’s delight–and her vegetarian, cautious parents’s horror–he gives Babs a pet Oink

Titina

Q&A with Director Kajsa Næss Italian airship engineer Umberto Nobile lives a peaceful life in Rome with his beloved rescue dog, Titina. Umberto’s peaceful life is uprooted when the famed Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen, befriends  and hires him to make an airship capable of embarking on the dangerous journey to the North Pole. With trusty Titina

Perlimps

NOTE: The Q&A with Perlimps’s director, Alê Abreu, has been cancelled due to a scheduling conflict. We apologize for the inconvenience.   One of two films in this year’s lineup set in enchanted forests (the other being the tonally opposite UNICORN WARS), Alê Abreu’s colorful, hand-drawn panorama is among the most visually stunning films of Perlimps

Frozen 2: Behind the Scenes

Be among the first to experience new footage from Frozen 2, the breathlessly anticipated sequel to the 2013 phenomenon Frozen.  For your guide, Director and Academy Award® winner Chris Buck takes you on a journey out of Arendelle in pursuit of the origin of Elsa’s powers. Featuring behind-the-scenes insight and footage from from the upcoming film, this Frozen 2: Behind the Scenes

Ne Zha

SPECIAL SCREENING AND DISCUSSION WITH COLOROOM FOUNDER, YI QIAO

Zog: The Making of

FREE TO THE PUBLIC! SPACE IS LIMITED! Academy Award nominated director Max Lang will be here in-person to introduce the film and answer your questions afterward!

Klaus: Behind the Scenes

Animation Is Film is proud to present this exclusive sneak peek at one of the most highly anticipated animated features of the year – Netflix’s KLAUS! Hear from filmmakers – director Sergio Pablos (live, via satellite) and Animation Supervisor Matt Williames (live, in-person) – about the production, and see never-before-seen footage of this groundbreaking new Klaus: Behind the Scenes

I Lost My Body

INTRO & Q+A w/ DIRECTOR JÉRÉMY CLAPIN AND PRODUCER MARC DU PONTAVICE Los Angeles Premiere, presented in partnership with COLCOA French Film Festival The most celebrated animated film so far this year, Jérémy Clapin’s I Lost My Body claimed the Nespresso Grand Prize in Critics’ Week at Cannes as well as both the Cristal for I Lost My Body

Weathering With You: Screening #2

Weathering With You is the highly-anticipated new film from director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura, the creative team behind the critically-acclaimed, global smash hit Your Name. The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal Weathering With You: Screening #2

Crow: The Legend

Event will feature world premiere of the 2D version of the film, followed by the making of the film and Q&A with filmmakers. This event is free to the public, but you must reserve seats to guarantee admission

Funan

Q+A with director Denis Do and producer Sebastien Onomo

The LEGO Batman Movie

Q&A with Director! Warner Animation presents a special screening of this year’s critical and box office hit, Lego Batman.  Event includes Q&A with filmmakers and special guests (check back here for updates) plus Lego Batman audience prizes for all families.

Disney • Pixar’s The Incredibles

Q&A by producer John Walker Limited-edition gift for all families! Plus sneak peek of upcoming Disney • Pixar release, Coco Celebrate the past, present, and future of the iconic Pixar Animation Studios! Prior to a screening of Academy Award® winner (and beloved favorite) The Incredibles, get a special sneak-peek clip of upcoming Disney•Pixar release Coco before it arrives in theaters Nov. 22nd. Disney • Pixar’s The Incredibles