People of all ages have grown to love the stop-motion animation movies of Nick Park, including "Chicken Run" and the "Wallace & Gromit" series. In "Memoir of a Snail" (IFC Films), Oscar-winning gay ...

In the animated film space, two things naturally come to mind: stories for children and big-budget, formulaic projects. The former idea is something directors have been fighting for years, a recent ...

AWARDS PREDICTION COMMENTARY: The Academy announced the shortlist for the animated short contenders, and they produced an interesting crop of selections. Netflix is placing all their power and ...

The feature jury said in a statement: “Without a word of dialogue, Gints Zilbalodis weaves sound, music and immersive animation to show how powerful the medium can be when coupled with the right story ...

A friendly reminder that animated does not automatically mean "for children," "Memoir of a Snail" is a wholly unique story of adulthood and alienation that could only be told through animation. Its ...

Drawing on his own life experiences and inspired by friends and acquaintances he’s met along the way, filmmaker Adam Elliot has landed himself an Academy Award nomination for his decidedly not ...

This may be the best stop-motion animation film since Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. It has taken 30 years for a movie as ambitious and wildly creative as Memoir of a Snail to grace the ...

The Animation Is Film Festival has announced its 2024 lineup, with films including “The Colors Within,” “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” and “Memoir of a Snail.” The seventh edition ...

Throughout their careers in animation, directors Max Lang and Daniel Snaddon have maintained a strong collaborative relationship with children’s book author Julia Donaldson. After bringing four of her ...

Gints Zilbalodis’ “Flow” — which follows a cat at the brink of the end of the world, learning to survive alongside other species — won the Grand Prize at the 7 th Animation Is Film festival that ...