The Factory (animation)

the Factory is French a cartoon film company Cevennes, located at Saint-Laurent-the-Mining in the Gard.

The Factory was founded in 1984, in the form of association, it became a production company in 1987, and produced films of authors, films of television, courts and feature-length films.

All started when Jean-François Laguionie, realizer of court-measurings of animation, of which the Crossing of the Atlantic to the oar , with found while walking along a water court an old workshop of winding of silk wire. It settled there to begin, with some friends, the realization of the feature film: Gwen or the Book of Sands .

In 1995 began the realization from a second feature-length film: the Castle of the monkeys .

This company is also at the base of the series in Papier cut out Princes and princesses of Michel Ocelot, the realizer of Kirikou and the Witch .

2004: the Island of Black Mór

See too

External bond

Site of the company “the Factory”
Discussion with J-F. Laguionie in connection with the creation of the Factory in bubbles of dreams, part 4 of the emission of September 10th, 2005.

---- Note: not to confuse with the Parisian editor “the Factory” (Web site)

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