Jamie Lang Los Angeles-based Outsider Pictures has picked up North American rights to the award-winning Brazilian stop-motion feature “Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People,” this year’s Best Film winner from Annecy’s Contrechamp section for innovative and outside-the-box toon features and the Best Animated Feature at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.Outsider is currently planning an Academy qualifying run for the film.São Paulo-based Coala Filmes impressed early on with their claymation adaptation of the works of legendary Brazilian cartoonist Angeli, responsible for many of the country’s best-love, and often loathed, animated characters, when their series “Angeli the Killer” played in the series competition at the Annecy Intl.
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