2026-06-27 / industry / medium
Annecy 2026 closes; SMALL: A Musical Fable announced (Mackinnon & Saunders); Annecy 2026 competition winners not yet confirmed
Sweep findings (June 27, 2026): (1) Annecy 2026 (50th edition) closes today — competition award winners not yet confirmed in indexed results as of sweep time; closing ceremony programme includes world premiere of Richard Williams posthumous short Lysistrata. (2) NEW: Mackinnon & Saunders (Manchester) partnered with LRG Media on SMALL: A Musical Fable, a cinematic stop-motion puppet musical feature based on Off-Broadway/Off-West-End musical The Mouse Queen; Magdalena Osinska (Aardman, Star Wars Visions) attached as co-director; writing by Ben Glasstone and Tim Kane; exec producer David Wachs. (3) Annecy 2025 short film winners (now Vimeo-available): Les Betes (Jury Award, Michael Granberry USA) and The Night Boots (Cristal + Audience, Pierre-Luc Granjon France) — both already in catalogue. (4) stop-motion surge in cultural discourse continues: AV Club and IndieWire pieces frame current wave as deliberate counter-signal to generative AI.
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