FILM FRANCE-CNC at the Annecy Festival 2024

11.00am
XR and IP: Wallace & Gromit's Journey
Explore how XR can extend your franchise through the case study Wallace & Gromit in The Grand Getaway, a narrative and interactive experience brought to life by the French immersive studio Atlas V, for Aardman studio and the Meta platform.

4.00pm
Fortiche Production – Studio Focus
Take a deep dive in the creative universe of the studio behind the resounding success of Arcane adapted from the video game League of Legends, and other productions developed in partnership with Riot Games.

11.30am
Arcane – making of
An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Arcane, the groundbreaking series from Riot Games and Fortiche Production featuring the creative and production leaders.

2.00pm
Blue Spirit: Building on Decades of Experience Shaping New Era – Studio Focus
Learn more about the projects and approach of the studio behind Blue Eye Samourai, winner of 6 Annie Awards in 2023.

3.30pm
Adapting Gaming Franchises through Animation – Industry panel
Award-winning Animation Director Jay Oliva will discuss hiscollaboration with French animation studio TeamTo on RAID: Call of the Arbiter and Corvus Belli Infinity.

3.00pm
Arcane – signing session
French studio: Fortiche Production
Producer: Riot Games, Netflix // USA

10.30am
The Imaginary – Official Competition – screening
French studio: Les Films du Poisson Rouge
Producer and studio: Studio Ponoc Inc // Netflix, Japan

2.30pm
Astérix and Obélix, The Big Fight – preview
French studio: TAT
Producer: Netflix // USA

11.30am
The Doomies – Work In Progress
French Studio: Xilam
Producer: Disney+ // USA

1.00pm: screening
4pm: signing session
Twilights of the Gods
French studio: Xilam
Producer: Netflix // USA

11.15am
Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom – Work In Progress
French studio: Atlas V
Producer: Bandai Namco Filmworks // Japan

8.30pm
Despicable Me 4 – screening
French studio: Illumination Paris
Producer: Universal Studios // USA

10am
Creature Commandos – screening
French studio: Bobbypills
Producer: DC Studios, Warner Bros. Animation (Max Original) // USA

Film France-CNC, the French film commission, department of the CNC (the French National Centre of Cinema and Moving Image), welcomes foreign projects that come to France to make animation and VR works, notably through the TRIP (Tax Rebate for International Productions). Film France is also the gateway to find the right animation and VR studios and talents in France.

How do you adapt a video game for the screen?

What makes a successful video game adaptation? Should you take on board all the codes of gaming or move away from them? And what about French know-how in this particular field? We asked Pascal Charrue, co-founder of the animation studio Fortiche Production (the Arcane - League of Legends series) and Anthony Roux, founder of the Ankama studio and director of the Dofus film and the Wakfu series.