“Animation without Borders: Navigating the Imperative of Global Appeal” ANNECY Industry Panel 2024

The similarities and differences between universally appealing Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), by Philip Noyce, and deeply locally-relatable Ten Canoes (2006), by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djiggir.

Humor stands out of the ordinary and the real. It is the unexpected, the eccentric, the “funny.” And yet it is so intrinsically human that nations adopt it as a fundamental building block of cultural heritage, history and our constructed “national character.”

Two record-breaking animated films from opposite ends of the world have something big in common: the self-realization journeys of young antiheroes, rooted in culture and centered around family.