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Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has announced the inclusion of animation as a special category in the Out of Competition offerings.
The segment is to be programmed by Masoud Amralla Al Ali, who retains and expands his role as artistic director of the festival, and Sheila Whitaker. Viewers will have the opportunity to sample [...]

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After ‘My Friend Ganesha’, Koffee Break Pictures is working on yet another 2D animation film, ‘Green Chic- Finding Dad’. Only, this time it will be for a cause: promoting vegetarianism.
A 90-minute film, Green Chic- Finding Dad is the story of a chick named Chiclet, which loses its parents to selfish humans. How it [...]

Source: PTI
Actor Aamir Khan’s debut directorial venture Taare Zameen Par, a sensitive story of an eight-year-old dyslexic child, has been selected as India’s official entry to the foreign language category for Oscars at the 81st annual Academy awards. This was announced by filmmaker Suneel Darshan, who headed the Film Federation of India (FFI) jury to [...]

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DreamWorks SKG has signed a long-expected deal with Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group of India to start a new $1.2 billion film company. This means the studio co-founded by director Steven Spielberg would part ways with Paramount Pictures.
The Hollywood-Bollywood linkup of DreamWorks and the Mumbai-based entertainment, financial and telecommunications giant caps two years [...]

7Seas Technologies Limited, an independent IP-based game developing Indian company, has launched the Beta version of its mobile gaming portal www.mobizill.com.
Primarily a destination for free user-generated mobile content, the portal gives users the freedom to publish, convert and share ‘user-generated content’ with friends via both web and mobile devices. The website offers a sizable collection [...]

Intel Corporation will sponsor a collaborative animation project to produce a computer-generated animated short film for theatrical release. The Mass Animation Project will be open to established and aspiring animators.
Intel is sponsoring the development and promotion of a Facebook Page where animators will be able access a collaboration application built on the Facebook Platform, and [...]

George Lucas’ legendary visual effects shop, Industrial Light & Magic, is entering the feature animation business for the first time with Paramount’s “Rango” and thus joins a select number of companies doing high-end motion-capture animated features, including Sony Pictures Imageworks (”Beowulf,” “Monster House”) and Animal Logic (”Happy Feet”).
ILM’s “Rango” team is headed by Oscar [...]

Guess who joins Ganesh, Krishna and Ram in the Indian animation party? Lord Ayyappa! And that too in not one or two but eight different styles of animation including 2D animation, 3D animation, clay animation, toy animation, oil painting and Kerala murals.
India Tales, a year-and-a-half old company started by Nalin Singh, is coming out with [...]

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FXLabs Studios, a leading end-to-end game company in India has announced its plans to co-produce games for the international market.
FXLabs Studios is looking for strategic partners in the US to co-produce games with them. Ideal partners would own or have rights to properties that they wish to develop. FXLabs would provide high end [...]

Iranian animated films seem to be making waves across the world. The latest is “Once a Crew” by Abdollah Alimorad which won the Best Short Animated Film award at the Festival Internacional de Cine para Niños.
An international event for children, the festival was held from August 12 to 17 in Colonia Tlalpan, Mexico. The jury [...]