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The Snow Queen (2012 Film)
''The Snow Queen'' () is a 2012 Russian animated fantasy adventure film directed by Vladlen Barbe and Maxim Sveshnikov. The film is a based on the 1844 fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. Set after the Snow Queen invoked the spell of eternal winter, the film follows the story of Gerda who sets out on an improbable frigid journey up North to save her brother Kai. ''The Snow Queen'' was one of the most anticipated projects of the Russian film industry in 2012. Inspirational evaluation of ''The Snow Queen'' at international film markets set its stage for international distribution. The film was released on 31 December 2012 in Russia. In the United States, it was released on 11 October 2013. After receiving generally positive reviews from critics, an Annecy International Animated Film Festival review noted the film's ambition is reminiscent of the golden age of Russian animation. The film also achieved significant commercial success, with the total box office amou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timur Bekmambetov
Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov (, ; ; born 25 June 1961) is a Kazakh-born Russian film director, producer, screenwriter, and tech entrepreneur. He is best known for the fantasy epic '' Night Watch'' (2004) and the action thriller '' Wanted'' (2008), as well as for the pioneering screenlife films '' Unfriended'' (2015), '' Searching'' (2018) and '' Profile'' (2018). He founded Baselevs, a production company that earned a spot among the 2021 World's 10 Most Innovative Companies in Video, according to '' Fast Company''. Early life Bekmambetov was born on 25 June 1961 in the city of Atyrau, formerly known as Guriev. After graduation from school, Bekmambetov entered the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1979 and left it in 1980, on the eve of the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was deported from Moscow on the grounds of being "unreliable" and moved to Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, to study at the Alexander Ostrovsky Theatrical and Artistic Institute, from which he graduated in 1987 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annecy International Animated Film Festival
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival (, officially abbreviated in English as the Annecy Festival, or simply Annecy) was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of June in the town of Annecy, France. Initially occurring every two years, the festival became an annual event in 1998. It is one of the four international animated film festivals organised by the International Animated Film Association (ASIFA). History In the 1960s, the existence of a very active film club in the Savoy region, combined with the encounters of its organizers with the team from the Journées du Cinéma (Cinema Days), facilitated the establishment of the Journées Internationales du Cinéma d'Animation (JICA) in Annecy. Pierre Barbin, André Martin, and Michel Boschet were the founding members. Indeed, in 1956, the directors of the film club, present in Cannes to attend the first edition of the JICA alongside the major festival, realized that the festival wasn't working, as film stars m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Straus
Jessica Straus is an American voice actress who works in animation, video games and anime is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja .... She has provided voices for several video games, most notably as Juri in '' Super Street Fighter IV'', Pi in '' .hack//GU//Rebirth'' and Hiroko Hagakure from '' Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls''. In anime, she is known as the voice of Taruto from '' Magical Meow Meow Taruto'', Blue from ''Wolf's Rain'', Junko Miyaji from '' FLCL'', Deunan Knute from the ''Appleseed'' movie, Mokaku from the ''Battle Vixens'' series and Gidget from '' Eureka Seven''. Filmography Anime Film Video games Notes References Interview with Jessica Straus on Koei Warriors UK External links * * * Jessica Straus!-- NOT CONFIRMEJennif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erin Fitzgerald
Erin Fitzgerald is a Canadian voice actress who provides voice-overs for a number of cartoons, video games and English language dubs of Japanese anime. In animation, she voices Raven Queen in '' Ever After High'' and C.A. Cupid in both ''Monster High'' and '' Ever After High''. In recent roles she voices Bo and other characters in the American children's educational show '' Ask the StoryBots'' on Netflix. Biography Fitzgerald was born in Victoria, British Columbia and graduated from the University of Victoria with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with an acting specialization. She moved to Vancouver and worked with local theater groups doing plays, radio plays, television, and film. Her voice-over career began with loops groups in Vancouver for shows such as '' The Outer Limits'', she worked in looping for six years. Fitzgerald moved to Los Angeles in 2000. While in LA, she regularly works with a Christmas charity called Combat Radio. Career She had her first start in voice acting a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Robinson
Cindy Robinson (born April 7, 1969) is an American voice actress who voices in animations and video games. Some of her major roles are Makoto Nanaya and Gii from the '' BlazBlue'' series, Betty Boop in commercials, Queen Beryl in ''Sailor Moon'', Chitose Nanbu in '' Ah My Buddha'', Kukaku Shiba, Miyako Shiba, Jinta Hanakari (kid) and Kiyone Kotetsu in ''Bleach'', Zola in the '' Blue Dragon'' series, Minerva, Libra, and Hinoka in the ''Fire Emblem'' franchise, Madeline Hatter in '' Ever After High'', Astrid in '' Skyrim'', and Zafina in the ''Tekken'' series. She also makes an uncredited appearance as the voice of the Purge Emergency Broadcast System in '' The Purge'' franchise. Robinson is best known for her role as Amy Rose in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese developers Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, and Hirokazu Yasuhara for Sega. The franchise follows Sonic the Hedgehog (character), Sonic, an anthropomorphic b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirk Thornton
Kirk Thornton is an American voice actor, director and script writer working mainly with English-language versions of Japanese animated series. Career His major roles include Brandon Heat in '' Gungrave'', Hotohori in '' Fushigi Yūgi'', Klein in ''Sword Art Online'', Jin in ''Samurai Champloo'', Anavel Gato in '' Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory'', Hajime Saito in ''Rurouni Kenshin'', Jet Link in ''Cyborg 009'', Don Patch in ''Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo'', Ensign Nogami in ''The Cockpit'' and numerous Digimon. Additionally, Thornton co-directed for the anime series ''Bleach'' alongside Wendee Lee and also serves as the narrator. In video games, he voices Organization XIII member Saïx in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series and Shadow the Hedgehog and Orbot in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' series. In early February 1989, Thornton appeared as a contestant on the game show '' Classic Concentration''.Archived aGhostarchiveand thWayback Machine Personal life Thornton is married to Julie Nesbitt. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Erholtz
Doug Erholtz is an American voice actor. He is known for his performances as Inspector Zenigata in ''Lupin the Third'', Gin Ichimaru in ''Bleach'', TK Takaishi in ''Digimon Adventure 02'', Squall Leonhart in the ''Final Fantasy'' and ''Kingdom Hearts'' series, Asuma Sarutobi and Kankuro in ''Naruto'', Jean Pierre Polnareff in '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders'' and '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind'', and Hamrio Musica in '' Rave Master''. Roles Anime * '' Battle B-Daman'' – Joe, Biarce * ''BlazBlue Alter Memory'' – Hazama * ''Bleach'' – Gin Ichimaru, Kisuke Urahara (Eps. 231-366) * ''Blue Exorcist'' – Kaoru Tsubaki * ''Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo'' – Nightmare * ''Buso Renkin'' – Shinobu Negoro * '' Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion'' – Yoshida * '' Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'' - Kasugai Crow * '' Devilman Crybaby'' - Koji Nagasaki * '' Digimon Adventure'' – MetalSeadramon, SkullGreymon, Susumu Kamiya, Jim Kido, Deramon, Unimon, Chuumon * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian language, Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway in the Arctic Ocean. Constituting the westernmost bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea. Spitsbergen covers an area of , making it the largest island in Norway and the List of islands by area, 36th largest in the world. The administrative centre is Longyearbyen. Other settlements, in addition to research outposts, are the mining community of Barentsburg, the research community of Ny-Ålesund, and the mining outpost of Sveagruva. Spitsbergen was covered in of ice in 1999, which was approximately 58.5% of the island's total area. The island was first used as a whaling base in the 17th and 18th centuries, after which it was abandoned. Coal mining started at the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lapland (Finland)
Lapland is the largest and northernmost region of Finland. The 21 municipalities in the region cooperate in a Regional Council. Lapland borders the Finnish region of North Ostrobothnia in the south. It also borders the Gulf of Bothnia, Norrbotten County in Sweden, Finnmark County and Troms County in Norway, and Murmansk Oblast and the Republic of Karelia in Russia. The topography of Lapland varies from vast mires and forests in the south to fells in the north. The Arctic Circle crosses Lapland, so polar phenomena such as the midnight sun and polar night can be viewed in this region. Lapland's cold and wintry climate, coupled with its relative abundance of conifer trees such as pines and spruces, means that it has become associated with Christmas in some countries, most notably the United Kingdom, and holidays to Lapland are common towards the end of the year. However, the Lapland region has developed its infrastructure for year-round tourism. For example, in 2019, tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
