Festivals - Animation is Film 2021 :  We have covered the opening night red carpet

By Nicole, Los Angeles, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, 22 october 2021

Animation is film (AIF) is taking place in-person October 22-24 and returns to its home at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood.   The festival kicks off Opening Night on Friday, October 22 with the North American premiere of the highly anticipated Netflix feature, The Summit Of The Gods, followed by an in-person Q&A with award-winning director Patrick Imbert (The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales).  On Saturday, October 23, the Centerpiece film features the West Coast Premiere of GKIDS’ Belle, directed by Oscar® nominee Mamoru Hosoda (Mirai) who will also do an in-person Q & A following the premiere. The West Coast Premiere of NEON’s award-winning Flee, directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, will close the festival Sunday, October 24.  

 
Animation Is Film alumnus, Patrick Imbert (AIF ’17, The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales) returns with the Opening Night selection The Summit Of The Gods (Le Sommet des Dieux) based on the manga by Jirô Taniguchi and Baku Yumemakura. Seventy years after George Mallory and Andrew Irvine climbed to the top of Mt. Everest, an old Kodak camera, allegedly belonging to Mallory, winds up in the hands of an outcast climber believed missing for years. Obsessed with proving its authenticity, a Japanese reporter enters a world of obsessive mountaineers hungry for impossible conquests on a journey that leads him, step by step, toward the summit of the gods.

Eric Beckman (Founder and CEO Gkids)n Dave Jesteadts (President, Gkids), Myke Chilian (animator, creator Tig ‘n’ Seek), Peter Debruge (Chief Film critic variety / jury chair), Sandra Equihua (Netflix’s animated series Maya and the three), Dan Krall (Artist, producer Dexter”s laboratory), Patrick Imbert (director the Summit of the Gods), Mamoru Hosoda (director/producer Bell, Miraj), Enrico Casarosa (Director Luca), Adnrea Warren (producer Luca), Antonio Raul Corbo (Voice talent Poupelle of Chimney town), Misly Lee (voice talent Poupelle of Chimney town), Yasuhiro Yanagisawa (Screenwrite Poupelle of Chomney town), Jeff Wexler (Executive Poupelle of Chimney toy), Kristin Lowe (CCO of features Dreamworks animation), Eric oh (Oscar nominee / director opera), aye Rodriguez (Creator & executive producer Crunchyroll orginal series High Guardian Spice), Charles Solomon (Critic and historian), Ramin Zahed (Editor in chief Animation Magazine) and Kane Lee (Head of content Baobab Studios) were present at the red carpet opening night festival.

Itw Patrick Imbert

Itw Antonio Corbo

Itw Kane Lee

Itw Erik Oh

Itw Dave Jesteadt (President GKids)

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(Source : press release)