New York International Children’s Film Festival To Be Presented Virtually March 5-14
New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) will be presented virtually from March 5-14. The 24th edition of the Festival will open on March 5th with a premiere event for Elizabeth Ito’s new Netflix animated series
City of Ghosts. The animated feature
Nahuel and the Magic Book, directed by Germán Acuña, will make its North American premiere on March 6th as the 2021 Opening Spotlight program, and the Festival will conclude with a Closing Spotlight screening of Disney’s
Raya and the Last Dragon with an exclusive, live conversation with the film’s directors Don Hall and Carlos López-Estrada and appearances by lead voice cast member Kelly Marie Tran.
The small Irish animation studio that keeps getting Oscars attention
Tomm Moore, an Irish filmmaker and animator, next to drawings from the film, Wolfwalkers, a film from Moores studio, Cartoon Saloon, being exhibited at the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny, Ireland, Nov. 30, 2020. With Wolfwalkers, Cartoon Saloon completes a hand-drawn trilogy based on Celtic mythology. Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York Times.
by Carlos Aguilar
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- When Tomm Moore and 11 friends in the small city of Kilkenny, Ireland, set out to make an animated movie in 1999 based on Celtic mythology, they could hardly imagine their labor of love would become a studio that would revolutionize the animation industry in Ireland, revitalize interest in folklore at home and connect with a global audience.