Arts of the Moving Image

Obsessive: In recent years, you’ve taken most of your work off YouTube and stopped using social media as much. Could you talk about the reasons for those moves?

Jonni: I’d been planning it for a while and was hesitant, but I was inspired to make the leap…

"This Spreadsheet Is Probably The Best Job Board In The Animation Industry —And It’s Run By One Person In His Spare Time" read the headline from Cartoon Brew five years ago… and it's still true today…

Flow screened in competition at the Annecy Festival, winning the Jury and Audience Awards for Best Feature, the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution and Best Original Music for a Feature Film. The film has also screened at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (winning Best Animated Feature), Melbourne International Film Festival and Shanghai International Film Festival, and has been selected for the upcoming Ottawa International Animation Festival.

Gotta love Laika, but it would’ve been great to give a line of dialogue to Coraline on her quinceañera…

The fantastical porcelain figurines of Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev are a tiny part of co-director Brendan Bellomo and producer Aniela Sidorska’s documentary Porcelain War – winner of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. grand jury prize award for documentary.

In 1978, Cinefantastique magazine had an alluring cover, painted by fantasy and science fiction illustrator Barclay Shaw, depicting a bipedal Lizard Man at a high-tech control panel dispatching flying saucers to primordial planet Earth. The 18-page cover story … heralded … a grand creature feature – The Primevals – magnum opus of stop-motion animator David W. Allen.

Forty-six years after the CFQ story appeared, The Primevals premiered at Fantasia Film Festival in Toronto, Canada, in July 2023. Three months later, the film played at the 56th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain. A few months later, the film opened in a limited theatrical release and then launched on streaming platforms this past May. A three-disc collector’s edition Blu-ray box set arrives in August.

Since childhood, LOUISON has been going from one school to another, from one friendship to another, to the rhythm of her parents' missions. This year, at 11 years old, no longer a question of continuing to travel the world. It's decided, Louison wants to put her suitcases at the boarding school of the Collège des Amandiers where she can finally build real friendships! Both with enthusiasm and apprehension, Louison meets her two roommates AN and SAM who welcome her with joy and good humour.

But her first evening takes a completely different turn when THE PINK PLASTIC PONY she won in a draw in the afternoon reveals to her that he chose it to defend the college against awful monsters that are rampant there!

This is how she meets JEAN-PIERRE, super-pony and superheroin coach...