Industry Insight: Singapore animation reaches Annecy — Can the industry grow?
Singapore animation has reached a major milestone — with a local film selected for the main competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the first time in the festival’s 65-year history. Behind that recognition lies a more complicated reality. It took close to a decade, cross-border partnerships, and significant public funding to bring a single project to life — and even then, it may not have been possible on purely commercial terms. On Industry Insight , Lynlee Foo speaks with Justin Deimen, Executive Producer of The Violinist and Executive Director at Singapore’s Intercultural Theatre Institute , to examine what it really takes to build animation at scale — from financing structures and talent constraints to the role of international co-productions and distribution. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.