How Independent Animation Underdogs Like ‘Flow' And ‘Memoir Of A Snail' Are Disrupting The Awards Race: There's "Never Been A Better Time" ...

However, Flow also reflects how the visual-oriented animation medium doesn’t need dialogue to thrive. Let’s get more silent animated movies in the pipeline that build on Flow’s artistic ...

Empowering animation. Flow‘s win is historic in many, many ways. For one, it’s the first time a Latvian film has ever won an Oscar.

Combined with honors such as the Los Angeles Film Critics prize in animation, Latvia’s “Flow” went on to receive a pair of Oscar nods, including best international feature and animated ...

In a major upset, Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis‘ “Flow” won the Golden Globe for best animated feature on Sunday evening. A co-production between Latvia, Belgium, and France with a ...

And Flow is now the Latvian Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film, a category for films not in English – an ironic designation, given that it is a wordless fable. It opens exclusively ...

Oscar-winning “Flow” by Latvia’s Gints Zilbalodis brought Baltic animation to new heights. Now, local creators are figuring out how to benefit from the aftermath of its success. “Sometimes ...

In the animated film space, two things naturally come to mind: stories for children and big-budget, formulaic projects. The former idea is something directors have been fighting for years, a ...

Animation, especially, can transcend these boundaries. I think people are accepting that animated films can be for kids, which is fantastic, but it can be for all kinds of audiences,” he continues.