Oscar-Nominated Animation Filmmakers and VFX Artisans to Speak in Free Online VIEW Conference Panels
variety.comTerry Flores The VIEW Conference, in partnership with OGR, presents a full slate of free virtual PreVIEW panels in March featuring an array of Oscar nominees.First, on Friday, March 4, at 10 a.m.
PT, will be a talk with the filmmakers behind the five nominees for animated feature. Speakers are Byron Howard, Jared Bush and Charise Castro Smith of Disney’s “Encanto”; Jonas Poher Rasmussen and Charlotte De La Gournerie of the animated documentary “Flee”; Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren of Pixar’s “Luca”; Mike Rianda, Phil Lord and Chris Miller of Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix’s “The Mitchells vs.
the Machines”; and Don Hall and Carlos Lopez Estrada of Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon.” “This year’s list of Oscar contenders is truly breathtaking,” says conference director Maria Elena Gutierrez. “I have been blown away by the depth of creative thinking that has gone into their production, and by their capacity to address important issues of inclusion and diversity.
How lucky we are to be able to enjoy animated features that are not only entertaining and beautiful to look at, but also thematically rich.”Next up, in partnership with the VFX Festival, will be a panel featuring the VFX supervisors on the five films nominated for the visual effects Oscar.
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