Interview with Denise Cirone, Sebastian Doringer, Andrey Kolesov, Chiayu Liu, Zhen Tian and Lan Zhou, co-directors of Go Fishboy Was Go Fishboy’s conception starting point an idea or a picture, such as a drawing?The seed for the story came from writing games we did at school. Two of our team members, Sebastian and Zhen, came up with the idea of a boy, who […]
Interview with Annabelle Amoros, director of Churchill, Polar Bear Town How did you become aware of the town of Churchill and its complex situation with polar bears?I’ve known about the town of Churchill for years. When I was a child, I saw a picture of a polar bear being transported in a net beneath a helicopter. I made the connection later, around 2013, […]
Interview with Geordy Couturiau, director of La Flûte enchantée [The Magic Flute] Tell us a bit about Momo and Arnaud. Are they based on people you know in real life? The character Arnaud gets his name from a close friend of mine, Arnaud Orengue, without whom the film would not be what it is. He was with us from the very beginning up to […]
Interview with Julien Regnard, director of Ronde de nuit [Night Watch] Where did you get the idea for the couple in the film? The story in the film is based largely on my personal life. It’s coated over by the animation, the genre, the film’s atmosphere, all that… But the story is still pretty autobiographical. How would you describe your animation style? Réactionnaire ? Non le […]