Tag: Hair Love
AfroAnimation Summit Honors Kemp Powers, Camille Eden, Bruce Smith & Jermaine Turner
AfroAnimation, the largest annual event featuring diverse and BIPOC animators and creators, announced today the honorees for the first AfroAnimation Summit Icon Awards, along...
Hayao Miyazaki, Jennifer Lee Are Among Animation Magazine’s 2023 Hall of Fame Honorees
Animation Magazine is proud to announce the recipients of this year’s Hall of Fame Awards. The distinguished honorees will receive their awards at The World Animation Summit’s...
Sharing the Love: Matthew A. Cherry Opens Up About His New Max Series ‘Young Love’
In 2019, Matthew A. Cherry’s Oscar-winning animated short Hair Love offered a beautiful snapshot of a Black father learning to fix his young daughter’s...
Lion Forge and Penguin Pact for Slate of Kids’ Film and TV Projects
Lion Forge Entertainment and Penguin Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House, have partnered to develop film and TV projects based on popular...
‘Young Love’ Official Trailer Introduces the New Family on the Max Block
Max has released the official trailer for the original animated series Young Love, debuting with four episodes Thursday, September 21 on Max. The 12-episode season continues with...
SDCC: Max Offers First Looks at ‘Fionna and Cake,’ ‘Young Love,’ ‘Harley Quinn’ S4
The Max Original Animation panel hosted at San Diego Comic-Con today included exclusive first looks at upcoming animated series coming soon to the streaming...
Lion Forge Inks First-Look Animation Deal with Nickelodeon
Lion Forge Entertainment and Nickelodeon Animation today announced a new first-look deal covering animated series and features. The partnership underscores both studios' commitment to...
DC Slates ‘Justice League: Warworld’ Premiere Amid Packed Comic-Con Schedule
DC announced today their return to Comic-Con International: San Diego (SDCC) with a new DC Booth on the convention show floor (#4645) from Wednesday,...
Lion Forge Teams with Black Women Animate to Recruit ‘Iyanu’ Pre-Prod Talent
Lion Forge Entertainment, the prodco behind the Academy Award-winning short Hair Love, is partnering with Taylor K. Shaw’s Black Women Animate Studios (BWA) to...
Annecy: Max Unveils New Animation Slate, Including ‘Young Love,’ ‘Ten Year Old Tom’ and ‘Fionna and Cake’
Annecy Festival audiences were treated to a special sneak peek at the upcoming adult animation slate from Max. Suzanna Makko, exec VP of original...
Black Sands and Composition Media Launch the Next Phase of African-Centric Animation
Black Sands Entertainment, a comic-book publisher dedicated to creating strong Black characters inspired by African history, and Carl Reed’s Composition Media announce a multi-million...
Carl Reed’s Newly Launched Composition Media Debuts Slate
Carl Reed, producer of the Academy Award-winning short Hair Love, has launched Composition Media — a diverse and forward-thinking animation studio with an innovative...
‘My Dad the Bounty Hunter’: Meet the New Space-Age Family
For those privileged enough to engage with the experience, parenthood exists as the ultimate portal for reconnecting with one’s inner child. The energetic duo...
‘My Dad the Bounty Hunter’ Official Trailer & New Images Blast Off
Two pint-size interstellar stowaways get caught up in their dad's quest to clean up the galaxy in the new Netflix animated family series My Dad...
‘New Moon’ Director Raúl Domingo Discusses the Phases of His Oscar-Shortlisted Project
The animated short New Moon, which is directed by Jérémie Balais, Jeff Le Bars and Raúl Domingo, has been wowing audiences since it premiered...
The Talk of the Town: The World Animation Summit Brings the Industry Together Once Again!
The 2022 edition of the World Animation Summit was certainly one for the books. Bringing together a wide range of stellar Toon Town superstars and...
Teaser: ‘My Dad the Bounty Hunter’ Fires Up a Space Stowaway Adventure
An unplanned "Take Your Child to Work Day" meets wild Space Western action in My Dad the Bounty Hunter, the new Netflix CG-animated series from...
People on the Move: Toliver to Lead Netflix Film Animation, Millard Heads Scott Bros. Kids & More
Following the announcement of Netflix's acquisition of Australian animation & VFX house Animal Logic yesterday, the streamer has made moves to streamline the executive structure...
HBO Max, CN & Lion Forge Power Up ‘Iyanu: Child of Wonder’
HBO Max, Cartoon Network and Lion Forge Animation announced today plans to adapt the popular Dark Horse Comics/YouNeek Studios graphic novel series Iyanu: Child...
On Representation and Diversity: How Far Have We Come?
***This article originally appeared in the 35th Anniversary Issue of Animation Magazine (June-July '22, No. 321)***
Karen Toliver, the current VP of animated films at Netflix, has...
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