Animation Planner

It’s not quite spring, but the toons are in bloom at festivals all over the world this month! New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival (3.3-19), Tricky Women/Tricky Realities (Vienna; 3.8-12), SXSW (3.10-19), Monstra (Lisbon, 3.15-26), Animation Dingle (Dingle, Ireland; 3.24-25), Tokyo Anime Award Festival (3.10-13), Athens Animfest (3.16-19), Ciné Court Animé (Roanne, France; 3.20-26) and Kaboom! (Utrecht, Amsterdam & Online; 3.24-4.2), to name a few…

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Final Academy Awards voting is open through March 7, so don’t forget to cast your ballots!

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More than 50 feature projects are hoping to connect with co-producers and financing partners at Cartoon Movie in Bordeaux this week. [cartoon-media.eu]

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Unicorn Wars, the latest genrebending adult animated feature from Alberto Vásquez, hits select theaters and On Demand via GKIDS today.

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The big night is finally here! Tune into the 95th Oscars airing live on ABC to find out which animated feature, short and VFX blockbuster take home the gold. [oscars. org]

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Kate DiCamillo’s The Magician’s Elephant gets new animated life in Netflix’s movie adaptation, marking the directorial debut of veteran animator Wendy Rogers. In theaters, Zachary Levi is back in action to fight the Daughters of Atlas in WB’s Shazam: Fury of the Gods

The inaugural Niigata Int’l Animation Film Festival runs through March 22 in the coastal Japanese city. [niigata-iaff.net]

The next chapter in magic-less boy Asta’s quest to become the great magical emperor of the world arrives as Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King premieres simultaneously in Japanese cinemas and on Netflix worldwide.

Or, grab your dice bag and hope for a nat 20 theatrical experience with Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Help Pud the Cat and Ham the Dog on a comical galactic quest in the Netflix interactive special We Lost Our Human

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