Roy Edward Disney (1930-2009), as a producer at Disney, he always supported the creativity of the company and was behind such films as Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994) amongst others... Receiving the Disney Legends Award in 1998, he defended animation there with his own personal savings. Screening of extracts from Destino, a film made from sketches by Salvador Dali.

Pierre Levie (1916-2010) gave himself challenges throughout his career and produced varied and creative films. He also founded the European production company Eva that concentrated its work in France, Wales and Germany.
Screening of Cheval Blanc

Te Wei (1915-2010): Chinese master of the animated art, Te Wei is one of the most important animators of his generation. He was awarded the Asifa award in 1995 in Annecy and also managed art studios in Shanghai that promoted Chinese animation in general.

"The screen is made up of a vertical panel with a white surface perforated with some 250,000 holes for the pins that can pushed through to varying degrees. When a light is shone on the screen each pin casts a shadow on the white surface"(Jacques Drouin Press Kit).

Spike is celebrating his 30^th year of the shows and will be unveiling a host of original shorts especially for Annecy... in a totally irreverent show that's always a Festival favourite!

Check out extracts from Pigeon: Impossible by Lucas Martell, My Neighborhood Has Been Overrun by Baboons by Cameron Edser or Key Lime Pie by Trevor Jimenez.

Roy Edward Disney (1930-2009), as a producer at Disney, he always supported the creativity of the company and was behind such films as Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994) amongst others... Receiving the Disney Legends Award in 1998, he defended animation there with his own personal savings. Screening of extracts from Destino, a film made from sketches by Salvador Dali.

Pierre Levie (1916-2010) gave himself challenges throughout his career and produced varied and creative films. He also founded the European production company Eva that concentrated its work in France, Wales and Germany.
Screening of Cheval Blanc

Te Wei (1915-2010): Chinese master of the animated art, Te Wei is one of the most important animators of his generation. He was awarded the Asifa award in 1995 in Annecy and also managed art studios in Shanghai that promoted Chinese animation in general.

"Summing up the history of animation in 50 films, is already an exploit! Getting all these 50 in one programme, is completely crazy! A mad attempt at celebrating 50 years of the Festival in less than 70 minutes! Spark debates, get people talking, surprise and astound, all in 50 (very) short films? OK, off we go! Don't blink or you'll miss it!"
Marcel Jean

The programme: 2D illustrations, cartoons and books come to animated life and are adapted to 3D.

Canal J is blowing out its 25 candles.
Students from 7 schools had a month to make a film with some particular specifications: a given subject (birthdays), a running time (45 seconds to 1 minute) and a specific target audience (from 4 to 14 years).

"Summing up the history of animation in 50 films, is already an exploit! Getting all these 50 in one programme, is completely crazy! A mad attempt at celebrating 50 years of the Festival in less than 70 minutes! Spark debates, get people talking, surprise and astound, all in 50 (very) short films? OK, off we go! Don't blink or you'll miss it!"
Marcel Jean

Spike is celebrating his 30^th year of the shows and will be unveiling a host of original shorts especially for Annecy... in a totally irreverent show that's always a Festival favourite!

Check out extracts from Pigeon: Impossible by Lucas Martell, My Neighborhood Has Been Overrun by Baboons by Cameron Edser or Key Lime Pie by Trevor Jimenez.

"The screen is made up of a vertical panel with a white surface perforated with some 250,000 holes for the pins that can pushed through to varying degrees. When a light is shone on the screen each pin casts a shadow on the white surface"(Jacques Drouin Press Kit).

"Summing up the history of animation in 50 films, is already an exploit! Getting all these 50 in one programme, is completely crazy! A mad attempt at celebrating 50 years of the Festival in less than 70 minutes! Spark debates, get people talking, surprise and astound, all in 50 (very) short films? OK, off we go! Don't blink or you'll miss it!"
Marcel Jean

A programme of 17 shorts created by students from 5 schools, using the same piece of music, by music composer, Christophe Heral.

Films and participants:

• Light'n Line by Milan Voukassovitch (LISAA)

• Pantalonnade by Adrienne Nowak and Angèle Chiodo (ENSAD)

• Breakdance by Bruno Chaix, François Lee, Franck Monier and Mathilde Regnault (EMCA)

• L’Arbre by Jean Bouthors, Aline Faucoulanche, Rémy Nardoux and Sourya Sihachakr (EMCA)

• Les Canettes by Camille Baritaud, Laure Fatus and Cielle Graham (EMCA)

• L’Ascenseur by Natalianne Boucher, Quentin Letout, Thomas Pons and Vincent Nguyen

• Jeu d’enfant by Simon Jeannot (ENSAD)

• Mix by Geoffroy Moneyron, Brendan Merien, Simon Valenza, Émilie Leroux and Myriam Schott (Institut Ste Geneviève)

• Le Robot, les Fraises et le Kiwi by Viola Baier, Violaine Briat and Catherine Hobson (Gobelins, l’école de l’image)

• Eau, gobelets… by Benoit Tranchet, Chloé Bury and François Barreau (Gobelins, l’école de l’image)

• Le Chat magicien Cute by Rachid Gendouze, Marion Delannoy and Vincent Nghiem (Gobelins, l’école de l’image)

• Le Casino avec le poisson by Rémi Bastie Théo Boubounelle and Jean-Baptiste Cumont (Gobelins, l’école de l’image)

• Papiers découpés et mosaïque by Jonathan Djob-Nkondo, Adeline Grange and Clara Voisin (Gobelins, l’école de l’image)

• Les Masques by Nicolas Dehghani, Nicolas Pegon and Jérémy Pires (Gobelins, l’école de l’image)

• La Salade verte, les Frites et le Ketchup by Sylvain Fabre, Guillaume Fesquet and Julien Rossire (Gobelins, l’école de l’image)

• Les Objets audiovisuels animés en noir et blanc by Paul Lacolley, Kevin Manach and Maxime Mary (Gobelins, l’école de l’image)

• La Brocante by Claire Fauvel, Clément Girard and Maïté Xia (Gobelins, l’école de l’image)

The programme: 2D illustrations, cartoons and books come to animated life and are adapted to 3D.

Spike is celebrating his 30^th year of the shows and will be unveiling a host of original shorts especially for Annecy... in a totally irreverent show that's always a Festival favourite!

Check out extracts from Pigeon: Impossible by Lucas Martell, My Neighborhood Has Been Overrun by Baboons by Cameron Edser or Key Lime Pie by Trevor Jimenez.