Annecy International Animated Film Festival

This new gift from Disney features Winston, the dog of a young photographer. The story is told through the eyes of Winston who uncovers his master's love life bite by bite through the meals they share. As an extra gift for audience, "Feast" will be shown in theaters prior to the main feature, "Big Hero 6", on November 7th in US and February 11th 2015 in France. Kristina Reed has already worked with "Feast" director Patrick Osborne (co-head of animation on

"Big Hero 6") on "Paperman", which had its world premiere at Annecy 2012 and won an Academy Award for Animated Short film in 2013.

 

Last year, Disney's "Get a Horse!" world premiere was held in Annecy on June 11, 2013 and features the voice of Walt Disney as the voice of the 1920's Mickey Mouse. The short features the famous 1920's Mickey Mouse, designed in black and white, on a musical wagon ride with his friends Minnie, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow whilst Peg-Leg Pete tries to run them off the road. Mickey pushes his foot through the screen, coming out in 3D color. Disney plays with this transformation throughout the short adventure as Mickey jumps back and forth between old and new. "Get a Horse!" was nominated for an oscar as Best Animated Short Film in 2013 at AMPAS, and is considered by Todd Mc Carthy of The Hollywood Reporter as "one of the wittiest and most inventive animated shorts in a long time".

Disney has been coming to Annecy's festival for more than 15 years but does not bring shorts to compete.

 

"We are the oldest animation studio in the world and a prestigious one. Disney doesn't bring its movies to Annecy to compete but to share it with people they like animation. Students shows in Annecy productions they did by themselves, in their garage with their friends. Disney don't want to take an award from them. It's hard to know if a movie is good or not, so we want to know what audience producing animation think about our choices, about the colors, the characters, the story and everything" Kristina declares.

 

It took over a year to develop and create "Feast" with on average one hundred people working on the project. "Big hero 6", was produced over a period of 4 years. She made her short in the middle of that. "You're borrowing some people for few days, and make a short between one giant animated movie. That's why it took a year" Kristina admits.

 

Disney presents its films in many festivals and sent "Paperman" to Hiroshima, Ottawa, Los Angeles Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and Anima Festival in Brussels.