Recorded on June 9th 2010 at the Annecy festival in France, here is my interview with producer Don Hahn, from The Walt Disney animation studio. Don talks about his newest project; the documentary Waking sleeping beauty, which he directed and produced. He also talks about how he got into animation, his experiences working at Disney, his future projects, and much more.

Don has worked on classic movies, like Beauty and the Beast, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Atlantis: The Lost Empire and many more, and he recently published a lecture series based on the notes from the legendary animation-mentor Walt Stanchfield.

Thanks to Don for spending some time with us, and his assistant, Fumi Kitahara from the pr kitchen for setting up the interview.

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Day 3.
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

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We are on location at the annual Annecy 2010 animation festival in France. We’ll keep you updated on everything that happens here, starting monday, so that you get to know what you’re missing out on.
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Show notes:

Short films in competition 3:
Je T’Aime, Japan, 2010, 11m45s, Mamoru Oshii
Lipsett’s Diaries/Les Jounaux De Lipsett, France, 2010, 4m6s, Theodore Ushev
About St. Basil/Pro Vasiliya Blazhennogo, Russia, 2009, 13m31s, Natalia Berezovaya, Pilot Moscow Animation Studio
The Village/To Horio, Greece, 2010, 14m50s, Stelios Polychronakis
Don’t Go, Turkey, 2010, 3m51s, Turgut Akacik, Anima Studios Istanbul
Fossil Memory/Memorie Fossile, Belgium, 2009, 10m, Anne-Laure Totaro, Arnaud Demuynck
Hand Soap, Japan, 2008, 16m, Kei Oyama, Aichi Art Center

Features:
Despicable Me, France/USA, 2010, 1h28m, Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud, Illumination Entertainment
That’s it for today, see you tomorrow!
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Day 2.
Tuesday June 8th, 2010

We are on location at the annual Annecy 2010 animation festival in France. We’ll keep you updated on everything that happens here, starting monday, so that you get to know what you’re missing out on.

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Show notes:

Features:
Metropia, Sweden, 2009, 1h20m, Tarik Saleh, ATMO

Kerity La Maison Des Contes/Eleanor’s Secret, France/Italy, 1h20m, Dominique Monféry, Gaumont-Alphanim/La Fabrique Production/Lanterna Magica/S.R.L.

Waking Sleeping Beauty, USA, 1h26m, Don Hahn, Red Shoes/Stone Circle Pictures

That’s it for today, see you tomorrow!

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Day 1.
Monday June 7th, 2010

We are on location at the annual Annecy 2010 animation festival in France. We’ll keep you updated on everything that happens here, starting today (monday), so that you get to know what you’re missing out on.

Listen to the podcast, and come back to this page for links to anything discussed.

Show notes for todays show:

Short films in competition 1:

Jean-Francois – France, 2009 – 05:45 – Tom Haugomat, Bruno Mangyoku – Cube Creative Prod.
About one bird – Russia, 2009 – 08:50 – Olga Kudryavtseva
Koisuru Nezumi/Love mouse – Japan, 2009 – 13:49 – Shinsaku Hidaka
Esterhazy – Poland, 2009 – 25:00 – Izabela Plucinska – Donten and Lacroix Films
The art of drowning – Canada, 2009 – 02:06 – Diego Maclean
Tord & Tord – Sweden, 2010 – 10:44 – Niki Lindroth Von Bahr
The lost thing – Australia, 2010 – 15:00 – Andrew Ruhemann, Shaun Tan, Passion Pictures

Features:
Evangelion Shin Gekijoban 2.0 – Japan, 2009 – 01:48 – Hideaki Anno – Khara, Inc.
Mai Mai Shinko To Sennen No Maho/Mai Mai Miracle – Japan, 2009 – 01:35 – Sunao Katabuchi – Madhouse, Inc.

That’s it for today, see you tomorrow!

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Erlend has made it to Annecy, France, for its 50. aniversary and will be hosting daily updates from the festival. Don’t forget to check in for your daily dose of festival goodness.

-Morten

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