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See the list of selected projects for the Creative Focus section of the 2013 Annecy International Film Festival.

A documentary on the ill-fated feature project of the Academy Award-winning animator, Richard Williams, illuminated aspects of the animation business usually left untold.

A new documentary feature on the Academy Award-winning animator Richard Wiliams, Persistence of Vision, has been selected at Annecy festival, France. Its director, Kevin Schreck, talks to Zippy Frames.
See the winners of the Animated Com Award (field of applied animation) at the 20th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.
The premiere convention for animation, Aka-con, takes place in Dublin.
The Oscar-awarded British animator Daniel Greaves prepares the stop-motion drama Mr. Plastimime.

The filmmaker Gemma Atkinson narrates her adventure when filming British Police officers. Watch Act of Terror.

The Suicide Shop (Le magasin des sucides) by Patrice Leconte is an anomaly: a film that is so warm that belies its subject-matter, but also contrived and stereotyped.

The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki by Mamoru Hosoda is a well-studied, but lifeless experiment on identity and the motive of the feral child.

Ari Folman's The Congress, his first animated work after the critically acclaimed Waltz with Bashir, opens the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Realisateurs) at Cannes Film Festival. Watch the first trailer of the film, and an animated excerpt.