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The Macondos, Colombia’s Academy Awards, were held over the weekend, and Laura Mora’s “Killing Jesus” was the big winner, scooping five awards, including best picture for a Colombian feature.

The win caps off a whirlwind 14 months since the film’s 2017 Toronto world premiere and San Sebastian European premiere, where it won the Eroski Youth Award, Fedeora Award and two special mentions.

A semi-autobiographical film, “Killing Jesus” unspools in Medellin, the base of operations for Pablo Escobar’s cartel, which still suffers reverberations of the violence from his time as the world’s most notorious drug kingpin. Mora used non-professional actors to tell the revenge story of a young girl whose father is gunned down right before her eyes, and who, after a chance encounter with the killer at a nightclub, decides to embark on a mission of revenge.

Diego Ramirez’s Bogota and Cali-based 64A Films, the Colombian...

One of the most prestigious events of its kind, and undoubtedly the oldest, France’s Annecy Intl. Animated Film Festival is set to once again become the temporary international capital of cartoons from June 11-16. Whittled down from more than 3,000 entries, the festival’s official selection boasts more than 200 features and shorts hailing from the world over, with the directors of competition films vying to join past winners including Wes Anderson, Hayao Miyazaki and Bill Plympton. But perhaps just as important, the festival, which notched a milestone last year with 10,000 accredited attendees, provides a state-of-the-art summit of artists and execs from all across the variegated walks of animated film.

Annecy’s feature competition slate boasts a range of crowd-pleasers (such as Nora Twomey’s “The Breadwinner” and Mamoru Hosoda’s “Mirai”) and more left-field entries such as Nina Paley’s “Seder-Masochism” and Santiago Caicedo’s “Virus Tropical.” None of the...

A new kind of film festival intended to bring the many and varied visions of animation into the spotlight kicks off tonight in Los Angeles and runs throughout the weekend. Dubbed "Animation Is Film", this showcase of world-class animation from yesteryear classics to contemporary, cutting-edge films aims to bring the powerful medium into focus for a whole new generation of fans, young and old and everything in between. We're thrilled to host the exclusive premiere of the trailer for Virus Tropical, a black-and-white animated film from director Santiago Caicedo that adapts the graphic novel memoir …...

With this weekend’s launch in Hollywood of the Animation Is Film Festival at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theater, there’s an opportunity to expand industry tastes while influencing the Oscar race. “It’s for film people to find a highly curated selection of the best feature filmmaking from around the world [for that particular year] in one place,” said Aif founder Eric Beckman, the co-founder and president of GKids, which organized the festival in collaboration with the Annecy International Animation Festival, Variety, and Acifa-Hollywood.

After 20 years of success with the New York International Children’s Film Festival, Beckman thought it was time to broaden the appeal in Hollywood with an emphasis on global production and distribution.

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