Festival Animation News: Tribeca ; ATX Television ; Annecy

Annecy 2023 is planning a number of adult animation panels inspired by American productions. Sony is bringing with it a first look at Genndy Tartakovsky’s Fixed, Bill Plympton’s Slide, The Lord of the Rings: The War of Rohirrim, and a ten-year look back at Rick and MortyAlso on tap, Batman-Azteca in a word-in-progress first-look.


Courtesy: FOX

ATX Television Festival has announced that they will play host to a panel inspired by FOX’s Housebroken. Not much else is known about who will be at ATX to help take part in the panel, just that one is happening at some course during the week.

Housebroken is slated to return with new episodes on May 14th @ 930 pm ET/PT, check your local listings.

Featuring the voices of Lisa Kudrow, Will Forte, Clea DuVall, Nat Faxon, Sharon Horgan, Tony Hale, Sam Richardson and Jason Mantzoukas, animated comedy HOUSEBROKEN follows a group of neighborhood animals as they work through their issues, inside and outside their therapy group.

HONEY (Emmy Award winner Lisa Kudrow), a poodle mix, is the self-appointed leader of the group who often gets caught up in her own drama and is not always as helpful as she thinks she is. She struggles with her own problems, such as her relationship with her partner CHIEF (Academy Award winner Nat Faxon), a goofy St. Bernard who is less interested in personal growth and more interested in licking himself.

The group includes SHEL (Emmy Award nominee Will Forte), a sex-positive tortoise with a knack for choosing unconventional partners; TABITHA (Emmy Award nominee Sharon Horgan), an aging Persian cat beauty queen, trying to adjust to life off the cat show circuit; THE GRAY ONE (Jason Mantzoukas), a street-smart cat who lives with about 30 other cats and just wants to be loved; CHICO (Screen Actors Guild Award winner Sam Richardson), a chonky cat who has a very one-sided relationship with his human; MAX (Emmy Award winner Tony Hale), a Hollywood pig who may or may not have lived with George Clooney; ELSA (Screen Actors Guild Award winner Clea DuVall), a Corgi with a lot of opinions; and DIABLO (Hale), an anxious, sweater-wearing terrier.

Among the group’s other members are NIBBLES (guest voice Bresha Webb), a psychopathic hamster; BUBBLES (guest voice Greta Lee), a horny goldfish who lives with Honey and Chief, and heckles the animals any chance she gets; and TCHOTCHKE, a silent, and possibly magical, slow loris with a mysterious past, who uses a tiny cocktail umbrella to express his emotions. And then there’s JILL (Maria Bamford), the human who has no idea any of this is going on under her roof.

HOUSEBROKEN is an irreverent look at human behavior told through the filter of a quirky group of neighborhood animals. Throughout the series, the show centers on the pets’ dysfunctional relationships and their skewed world view, while exploring relevant societal issues in fun and unique ways.

HOUSEBROKEN is produced by Kapital Entertainment and FOX Entertainment. It is created and executive-produced by Gabrielle Allan, Jennifer Crittenden and Clea DuVall. Sharon Horgan, Clelia Mountford, Melanie Frankel, Aaron Kaplan, Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein also serve as executive producers. The series is animated by Bento Box Entertainment.


Tribeca Festival has announced world premiere screenings for A Cow In The Sky, details are below.

On his very first solo flight as a pilot, a young immigrant finds himself wrestling with his past and his identity when his engine suddenly fails and his plane free falls. Based on the true story of Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian college student killed in Portland, Oregon in 1988 by racist skinheads in a crime inspired by notorious white supremacist Tom Metzger, A Cow in the Sky is a film about the pain and personal triumph of a son left behind.

WORLD PREMIERE SCREENINGS AT TRIBECA FILM

Saturday, June 10 – 5:15 PM
AMC 19th Street East 6
(890 Broadway, New York, NY 10003)
Hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. Followed by Q&A with directors C. Fraser Press and Darren Press. Film participant James McElroy, civil rights attorney and former Southern Poverty Law Center Board Chair, in attendance.

Sunday, June 11 – 2:15 PM
AMC 19th Street East 6
(890 Broadway, New York, NY 10003)
Followed by Q&A with directors C. Fraser Press and Darren Press.

Saturday, June 17 – 12:15 PM
AMC 19th Street East 6
(890 Broadway, New York, NY 10003)
Followed by Q&A with directors C. Fraser Press and Darren Press.

Tickets and more information:
https://tribecafilm.com/films/cow-in-the-sky-2023