Jamie Lang Emmy-winning creator and director of “The Book of Life” and “El Tigre” Jorge Gutierrez and his longtime partner, in life and in work, Sandra Equihua hosted one of this year’s most highly anticipated Work in Progress sessions at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival on Wednesday.
In the hour-long panel and subsequent Q&A, the pair served up an all you can eat smorgasbord of details which had until now been scant on their upcoming Netflix limited series “Maya and the Three.”Gutierrez started off by describing a Netflix dinner with many of the people who would go on to form Netflix Animation, where he was asked by Melissa Cobb to, “Pitch us something you don’t think you can get made anywhere.” “Immediately the tombs of my ancestors.
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