Award-Winning Animation Feature ‘My Favorite War’ Debuts New International Poster
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Oscar Animated Feature contender and Annecy Contrechamp winner My Favorite War debuts a new poster designed by France’s leading poster designer Vincent Gauriat for distributor Destiny Films, which releases the film in France June 23, 2021.
My Favorite War new poster, designed by leading French poster designer Vincent Gauriat
My Favorite War was recently acquired by EastWest Filmdistribution for world sales; the French poster design was chosen by CEO Sasha Wieser for use in international marketing. Wieser says of the acquisition, “Rarely do we even consider acquiring animated feature films, but My Favorite War is unique in so many ways. It is at once moving and informative, charming and disturbing, beautiful and starkly frank – a truly original and timely cautionary tale of the human cost of totalitarianism.”
As the film’s Latvian producer Guntis Trekteris (EGO Media) comments: “We were positively surprised by Vincent Gauriat’s attractive design. It will definitely make audiences to look at our film from joyful angle, which, by the way, there always existed. We just needed somebody from outside the country to discover it.”
Based on director’s Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen’s childhood memories of creating her own escape route from the totalitarian regime that was Soviet Latvia, My Favorite War aims its anti-war and pro-democracy message at a global, adult audience using cut-out animation and documentary elements.
My Favorite War is submitted to the Academy Awards’ Animated Feature Film category. Prizes include a Special Distinction Award in Buncheon International Film Festival (Korea), the Grand Prix at the New Chitose Airport Animation Festival (Japan) and Best Animation Director and Best Animated Film in Latvia, which boasts a very strong animation industry dating back five decades.
The film is available to stream in all countries, excluding Belarus, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Serbia, Spain, and the UK.
“Impressive animated memoir looks at an authoritarian society through a young girl’s eyes.” –Variety
“My Favorite War joins a burgeoning genre of animated features that present an autobiographical account of conflict and war.” –Cartoon Brew
“A powerful look at her own experience growing up under Soviet rule and how that political climate impacted her own coming of age.” –Animation Magazine