‘Wendell & Wild,’ the upcoming Netflix movie directed by Henry Selick that features the voices of Jordan Peele, Angela Bassett, Keegan-Michael Key and Lyric Ross, has been selected as the opening-night film for Animation Is Film festival in October
, the growing animation festival that will run October 21-23 and October 29 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theaters in Hollywood.
It will mark the U.S. premiere of the pic, which world premiered earlier this month at the Toronto Film Festival and is due to hit Netflix on October 28. Selick, the stop-motion animation veteran behind, will participate in a post-screening Q&A. As part of the AIF special events,producer and founder and CEO of the Gotham Group Ellen Goldsmith-Vein will receive an award recognizing her impact on the animation industry.
This year’s edition also for the first time will extend from for an extra day on October 29, when juried competition winners and audience awards will be announced and a surprise special screening will take place as the closing-night film. That pic has not yet been revealed.Titina, Gold Kingdom & Water Kingdom. There will also be work-in-progress screenings of Disney’sLuck
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