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Mumbai: International advertising group WPP has acquired Cloud Commerce Group (CCG), a UK-based technology company that helps brands to market, sell and deliver their products across e-commerce platforms and marketplaces globally, such as Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and Wayfair. CCG will merge with Wunderman Thompson’s global network offering, Wunderman Thompson Commerce, a platform

Annecy International Animation Festival has awarded South African animation studio, Triggerfish, the Mifa Animation Industry Award. “This is to highlight the pioneering role that the company has played in animation in South Africa, and Africa most widely,” says Véronique Encrenaz, head of Mifa. Previous recipients include Christopher Meledandri, founder of Illumination (Despicable Me); the co-founders […]

Women In Animation Unveils Program For 5th World Summit At Annecy For the fifth year running, Women in Animation (WIA) will hold a symposium in conjunction with Annecy Festival and the MIFA market. The theme this year: “The Business Case for Diversity.” While the festival goes hybrid, the Women in Animation World Summit, which is held in partnership with South African studio Triggerfish, will be entirely virtual. Festival passholders and WIA members will be able to view the event from Monda...

The program for the fifth Women in Animation World Virtual Summit has been announced in...

“At the last four Summits, WIA built shared vocabulary around diversity, inclusion, belonging and equity,” said WIA President, Marge Dean. “As a global community, the organization traversed monumental paradigm shifts, challenges and opportunities this past year, including racial equity, a global pandemic, a rise in discriminatory violence and strong headwind toward inclusivity. As WIA marks its fifth Summit at Annecy, it’s important to ensure that our global WIA community continue to le...

Annie Awards: South African director wins top global animation prize International Recognition: The Snail and the Whale walked away with the Annie Award for Best Special Production. About The Snail and the Whale The Annie Awards have been presented by the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood, each year since 1972 to recognise excellence in animation. This year’s awards were held as a virtual ceremony on Friday, 16 April. Animated in Cape Town by ...

The Snail and the Whale director wins top global animation prize Share “The Snail and the Whale”, directed by Max Lang and South Africa’s Daniel Snaddon, has won the Annie Award for Best Special Production. The Annie Awards have been presented by the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood, annually since 1972 to recognise excellence in animation. This year’s awards were held as a virtual ceremony last week. Animated in Cape Town by...

Nancy Pelosi Rents Office Space To Group Designed By Pedophile, Connected To Pedophilia And Child Porn San Mateo Has A Massive Child Trafficking Problem Image Credit: Email Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi personally rents office space to a child welfare group, First 5 San Mateo County, that was set up by a convicted pedophile. The group partners with a nonprofit that ran a group house where child molestation occurred and partners with a conflict resolution center that had a volunteer convic...

One year after COVID-19 was officially declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization, Kidscreen  asks producers around the world to reflect on how they have been affected, and what they’re worried about next.  What was your biggest concern last April, and how did things turn out? Stuart Forrest (pictured middle), CEO of Triggerfish Animation (South Africa): We were midway through [production on] a feature film and at the beginning of a new TV series co-production, so our conce...

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