Annecy’s MIFA Bets on Cross-IP, AI and Global Growth Amid Animation Financing Squeeze

The Annecy festival will continue to grow even as the wider animation sector contracts — a tension set to define this year’s Marché International du Film d’Animation (MIFA), which runs June 23-26.

“What people call an animation crisis is, at root, a financing crisis,” says MIFA director Véronique Encrenaz.

“When you look at how the […] ...