Animation industry and festival fans flock to Annecy
The Annecy International Animated Film Festival is one of the most celebrated animation gatherings in the world. Created in 1960, the festival takes place each June in France, this year featuring 215 films in competition from 40 countries. More than 125,000 tickets were sold last year, proof of this surging market.
Opening the festival this year is The Prophet, produced by Salma Hayek-Pinault and directed by the The Lion King’s Roger Allers.
It is based on the literary bestseller of the same name written in the ’20s by Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran. A message of peace, love and brotherhood, the adaptation is a collection of nine stories of Mustafa, a poet imprisoned for his writings. Through his adventures, he delivers poems to others which serve as life lessons.
Director Roger Allers’ objective was the creation of a narrative thread to connect the poems.
Explains Allers, “There was the challenge of adapting the book which has very little story and increasing its narrative to suppor
Opening the festival this year is The Prophet, produced by Salma Hayek-Pinault and directed by the The Lion King’s Roger Allers.
It is based on the literary bestseller of the same name written in the ’20s by Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran. A message of peace, love and brotherhood, the adaptation is a collection of nine stories of Mustafa, a poet imprisoned for his writings. Through his adventures, he delivers poems to others which serve as life lessons.
Director Roger Allers’ objective was the creation of a narrative thread to connect the poems.
Explains Allers, “There was the challenge of adapting the book which has very little story and increasing its narrative to suppor
Category
🗞
News