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Presenting episode 121 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast!

In this episode we welcome the team from the upcoming animated series Ghostbusters: Night Shift – Ben Hibon, Elliott Kalan, Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan and Amie Karp.

New York City, 1994 — Five years after the Ghostbusters took the Statue of Liberty for a walk, a new wave of supernatural terror hits the Big Apple, forcing a group of scrappy, young New Yorkers — untrained, underappreciated, and kinda sorta responsible for the problem — to put on proton packs, face their fears, and bust some ghosts.

Also discussed: CAF highlights including Julia Pott’s masterclass, Sketch Showdown antics and The Midnight Walk, festival karaoke traditions, beating the heat at Annecy, teasing Wildwood with Travis Knight, Richard Williams’s posthumous final film Lysistrata, Ricky Gervais’s Alley Cats, Ben’s attempt to get through Charlie Kaufman’s stop-mo-themed novel Antkind, the rise of both AI and the vehement pushback against it through projects including Jorge Gutierrez’s abandoned project Punky Duck and the Annecy furore around Hisko Hulsing’s Danse Macabre.

Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson
Produced, edited and music by Ben Mitchell
Interview conducted by Steve Henderson