Editorials

DOMINIQUE PUTHOD
Chairman, CITIA

MICKAËL MARIN
CEO, CITIA

After three long years, we are thrilled to once again reunite the great animation film family. This art where everything is possible and which undoubtedly offers the most exciting cinematic proposition of our generation.

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MARCEL JEAN
Artistic Director, CITIA

The 2022 edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival is showing all the signs of a grand comeback. Its programming is richer than ever, you are once again able to travel, and we are thrilled about the idea of welcoming great numbers of you here.

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RIMA ABDUL-MALAK
Minister of Culture

The Annecy International Animation Film Festival, bringing together the vast world of animation, is a seminal event eagerly awaited by both the industry’s experts and the public at large.

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DOMINIQUE BOUTONNAT
CNC Chairman

We are so very pleased, after a 2021 hybrid vintage, to be back at a fully resplendent Annecy Festival.

Given its competitions and its Market, Annecy is a must-attend event for the world animation film industry. In 2022, after two pandemic-wrought years, professionals from the world over will once again be able to meet in person, structuring partnerships and further exploring the sector’s diverse writing and technical avenues.

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DELPHINE ERNOTTE-CUNCI
CEO of France Télévisions

As a leading backer of French animation, France Télévisions is proud to be the official partner of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

Again this year, this not-to-be-missed event offers an opportunity to celebrate the exceptional vitality of one of our most dynamic and daring creative industries which magnifies France’s radiant global influence.

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LAURENT WAUQUIEZ
Chairman of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region

It was here in 19^th century Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes that the Lumière brothers invented cinema. Since that founding time, our region has never stopped nourishing this legacy, allowing it to grow, unfurling the history of the Seventh Art.

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MARTIAL SADDIER
President of the Haute-Savoie Department

MYRIAM LHUILLIER
Vice-President: Culture and Heritage

For more than sixty years, the Annecy Festival has been drawing professionals, enthusiasts, students and the curious to toast the creativity and diversity of animated movies. After two years impacted by the health crisis, the Haute-Savoie Department, a loyal partner of the Festival, is pleased to assist this new edition, to be held June 13 to 18 in Annecy, the sanctum of animation cinema.

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FRÉDÉRIQUE LARDET
President of Grand Annecy

Grand Annecy is proud to support the International Animation Film Festival, which has been one with our territory for over 60 years. Convening enthusiasts, professionals and amateurs in the heart of our cityscape, the Festival shines Grand Annecy’s light abroad and reconfirms our role as a creative space, at the crossroads of culture and engineering. We are so pleased to be coming back to a full-fledged festival for this edition, after the 2021 hybrid version.

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FRANÇOIS ASTORG
Mayor of Annecy

What a joy for Annecy to be back again with its "own" Festival, in the flesh and in images, for a 2022 edition which is bound to be grandiose since it’s ringing in a moment of reunion, rematch and renaissance!

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VÉRONIQUE ENCRENAZ
Head of Mifa, CITIA

Three years have passed since the last in-person Mifa meet-up. Three years that, in many ways, might have felt like a long intermission, something in slow motion. Even so, since the 2019 Mifa, over the course of our editions – 100% on-line in 2020 and hybrid in 2021 – and in spite of constrained distancing, we have seen continents veer closer and changes speed up.

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DOMINIQUE BOUTONNAT
CNC Chairman

We are so very pleased, after a 2021 hybrid vintage, to be back at a fully resplendent Annecy Festival.

Given its competitions and its Market, Annecy is a must-attend event for the world animation film industry. In 2022, after two pandemic-wrought years, professionals from the world over will once again be able to meet in person, structuring partnerships and further exploring the sector’s diverse writing and technical avenues.

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LUCÍA RECALDE
Deputy Director, Head of Unit at Audiovisual Industry and Media Support Programmes, European Commission – Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT)

The audiovisual sector has been slowly recovering from the Covid-19 crisis. As we are half-way through 2022, it is still difficult to predict the future audiovisual trends in the aftermath of the global pandemic. Still some things remain unchanged, such as the rapid technological developments accompanying new ways of creating and of working and the capacity of the animation sector to embrace innovation.

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PIERRE SIRACUSA
Director of Animation at France Télévisions

First and foremost, what a pleasure to have renewed our partnership for the next 3 years with the world’s most beautiful festival.

A hotbed of animated creation since its origin, Annecy is the principal gauge of animation’s current successes and effervescence.

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