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Netflix Teases ‘Tentpole’ African Feature at Global Outreach Panel
Ben Croll Speaking at a Netflix recruitment panel at the Annecy Animation Festival on Wednesday, filmmaker Michael Francis Williams (“David Makes Man”) dropped new details about the upcoming “tentpole” animated feature he is co-directing for the global streamer.“It’s the first movie of this size set in Africa, and that’s what brought me to the project,” said Williams, who will share directing duties with Frank E. Abney III (director of the acclaimed short “Canvas,” pictured above).
