French animation has been widely distributed on foreign video-on-demand platforms in recent months.
Tubi, Fox Entertainment's free streaming platform, has signed an agreement with the American animation distributor and producer GKids. The platform will broadcast several works from the GKids catalog in 2022, including some French titles such as Ernest and Célestine : A Journey in Charabia by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, and Benjamin Renner, A Cat in Paris by Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol, Eleanor's Secret by Dominique Monféry, The Painting by Jean-François Laguionie, A Town Called Panic: Back to School and A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log by Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier.
OVID, an arthouse video-on-demand platform, offered a real online animation festival to North American internet users from March 7 to 11. Various French films were included in the program:
- Tales of the Night by Michel Ocelot
- This Magnificent Cake! by Marc James Roels and Emma De Swaef
- The Rabbi's cat by Joann Sfar
- Josep by Aurel
- Panique au village by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar
- Adama by Simon Rouby
- Aya of Yop City by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie
- The Girl Without Hands by Sébastien Laudenbach
As for animated shorts, the international distribution company Miyu Distribution has launched a Youtube channel to broadcast shorts from their catalog after their circulation in festivals. The channel is called Bang Bang and already offers about sixty works to internet users around the world. Check out the "French Animated Shorts," which showcases French animation production!
In terms of television programs, the animated series Gigantosaurus, produced by Cyber Group Studios, has been widely distributed on foreign video-on-demand platforms over the past three months. The series will be accessible to young Internet users all over the world thanks to its broadcast on the free platform Sensical (AVOD).
The group has also launched its first digital series, Giganto Club, in a global partnership with YouTube. Produced with real-time animation technology, Giganto Club has been available on YouTube Kids in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish since the beginning of February.
