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“A Second of the World”

After more than five years of production, our new short film "A Second of the World" celebrates its premiere at the Landshut Short Film Festival. We are very happy to show the film at this important short film festival in Germany.The premiere in Nuremberg, where most of the film was made, will take place on May 1st at 3:30 p.m. in the Filmhaus Nuremberg. A Berlin premiere will follow in May. Anja Struck directed "Second", which was based on a

‘The House’ on air in january

The House, produced by Nexus Studios will be available to stream globally on 14th January 2022 on Netflix. We are very proud that Angela Poschet from Rixfilm contributed to this great project as line producer. The news was revealed today during the Manchester Animation Festival in a talk featuring the creative minds behind the anthology, Emma de Swaef & Marc James Roels, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Paloma Baeza and Nexus Studios co-founder and series producer Charlotte Bavasso.

Another year without Festivals

For many years, the first half of the year at Rixfilm has been structured by festivals. Our annual cycle begins in February with the Berlinale, in March follows the Film Festival Turkey Germany which is co-curated by Frank Becher, in May the International Animated Film Festival in Stuttgart and it ends finally in June with a few nice days in Annecy. Now we are in our second year without these festivals. Honestly, we miss them. All attempts to hold the

First stereoscopic VR 360° film

We realised a particularly interesting project in Switzerland this year: our first stereoscopic VR 360° film for interview training. Definitely an exciting technology! Of course we’d love to continue testing its immersive effect in behavioural training units.

The House

Angela Poschet has taken over the production management for THE HOUSE – a stop motion production from London’s Nexus Studios on behalf of Netflix. The film comprises three parts, each one designed by stop motion directors Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels (as a team), Niki Lindroth von Bahr , and Paloma Baeza. Charlotte Bavasso, co-founder and producer of Nexus Studios, is the producer.

Partner for “Bus to America”

Good news for THE BUS TO AMERICA. In EJT-Labo from France, we found a wonderful partner for the project to advance its development. The Grand-Est region is also providing support through its film subsidy programme.

Mention from the German Design Awards

It has been quiet for a long time. Which only means that we have had plenty to do! We also had three reasons to celebrate this month: early in the year, the mixed-media campaign Allianz Global Investors Vertriebsinitiative Fonds (Sales initiative funds), which Frank Becher co-designed on behalf of HQ interaktive Medien, received an honourable mention from the German Design Awards. Later, we received an honourable mention from the IELA Awards, as well as the 2020 eLearning Award for two

Recommended by the Animation Magazine

THE BUS TO AMERICA is one of nine projects at Cartoon Movie that should be developed further, in the opinion of ANIMATION MAGAZINE . That makes us very happy! If you’d like more information around the project, simply send us an email: B2A@rixfilm-animation.com