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‘Flow’ Director Gints Zilbalodis Hopes Latvia’s Animated Feature Oscar Win Inspires “Independent Animation Filmmakers Around The World”
'Flow' Director Gints Zilbalodis Hopes Latvia's Animated Feature Oscar Win Inspires "Independent Animation Filmmakers Around The World"
With their win, Flow beat out Inside Out 2, Memoir of a Snail, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and The Wild Robot. Unsurprisingly, among the first in the list of thank you from director Gints Zilbalodis was to his cats and dogs before moving on to what the Oscar means for him and fellow winners Matīss Kaža, Ron Dyens and Gregory Zalcman. “I’m moved by the warm reception our win has had and I hope that it will open a lot of doors to independent animation filmmakers around the world,” he says.
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