ParaNorman opens Anim'est 2012

The seventh edition of The Anim'est International Animation Film Festival will take place from 5 to 14 october 2012 at Patria Cinema, Studio Cinema and Control Club in Bucharest.

Paranorman, one of this year's most anticipated feature films, will open the festival on october 5. In a special presentation will take part, on this occasion, the famous American studio specializing in stop-motion animation, LAIKA, in the Guest Studio Section.

ParaNorman will have its premiere screening in Romania, for the Anim'est audience, after a few weeks of being released in the USA, on august 17. Directed by Sam Fell (The Tale Of Despereaux, Flushed Away) and Chris Butler, with a story written by the latter, the 3D stop-motion animated feature is the second major project of the Laika Studio, after Coraline (d. Henry Selick, 2009), Oscar and Golden Globes nominee for The Best Animation. After the Anim'est projection, ParaNorman will be screened in Romania by Rolmage distributor.

ParaNorman is a comedy thriller whose hero, an eleven year old boy with special powers, Norman Babcock, has to deal with zombies, ghosts, witches -and the worst- grown-ups, in his attempt of rescuing his small town from a centuries-old curse. Paranorman borrowed the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Casey Affleck, Anna Kendrick, John Goodman, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Elaine Strich, Tempestt Bledsoe, Bernard Hill and Alex Borstein.