Year: 2017

Google VR Lounge #2

Google Spotlight Presents the VR Lounge at Animation Is Film Featuring the LA Premieres of their latest projects, SON OF JAGUAR, directed by Jorge Gutiérrez, and SONARIA, directed by Scot Stafford and Chromosphere. SON OF JAGUAR Directed by Jorge Gutiérrez Son of Jaguar is the soon-to-be-released Google Spotlight Story directed by acclaimed director, Jorge Gutiérrez Google VR Lounge #2

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.

Google VR Lounge

Google Spotlight Presents the VR Lounge at Animation Is Film Featuring the LA Premieres of their latest projects, SON OF JAGUAR, directed by Jorge Gutiérrez, and SONARIA, directed by Scot Stafford and Chromosphere. SON OF JAGUAR Directed by Jorge Gutiérrez Son of Jaguar is the soon-to-be-released Google Spotlight Story directed by acclaimed director, Jorge Gutiérrez Google VR Lounge

Songs of Love and Death

A curated collection of adult-oriented short films that speak to the themes of love and death, two topics that provide everlasting inspiration for beautiful, thoughtful, funny, powerful films. Songs of Love and Death is presented in collaboration between WOMEN IN ANIMATION and ANIMATION IS FILM. HEY STRANGER Kirsten Lepore, USA, 2017, 3 min It’s okay, Songs of Love and Death

Outlandish Lands

Once upon a time cartoons weren’t just for kids. In the days before the Hays Code and Saturday morning television, a darker and more libidinous version of the art form thrived side by side with live action. Unconstrained by reality, cartoons could be portals to worlds of impossible landscapes filled with bizarre and semi-unhinged characters, Outlandish Lands

Night Is Short, Walk On Girl

POST SCREENING SKYPE Q&A WITH DIRECTOR Acclaimed anime director Masaaki Yuasa, took a decade off directing feature animation only to return with two remarkable features in the same year – both selections in the festival, alongside his midnight classic Mind Game.

Mary and The Witch’s Flower

WITH DIRECTOR Q&A Animation is Film is proud to present the debut film from Studio Ponoc, the ambitious new Japanese animation house founded by two-time Academy Award-nominated producer Yoshiaki Nishimura, whose reunion with fellow Academy Award-nominated, Studio Ghibli director Hiromasa Yonebayashi points towards an exciting future.

The Breadwinner

WITH DIRECTOR Q&A Animation is Film is thrilled to present the highly-anticipated new film from executive producer Angelina Jolie and the creators of Academy Award®-nominated The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea, and based on Deborah Ellis’ best-selling novel.

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 Disney • Pixar’s The Incredibles

Three Snow Whites

Animation is Film is thrilled to open our first edition with a special anniversary screening of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the film that started it all and after 80 years, a still-unrivaled achievement in filmmaking. In this epic story of love and friendship, the kind and beautiful princess Snow White wins Three Snow Whites