ANIMATION FIRST PANEL - THANK YOU

What a fantastic Sound and Animation panel!

Huge thanks to Signe Baumane, Nicolas Becker, Alan Hankers, and Pat Irwin, and to moderator Chris Wedge, for generously sharing your experience, vision, work, styles — and even your differing perspectives. Through this panel, we truly felt your approaches and the richness of the collaboration between filmmakers, sound designers, and composers. Being surrounded by such leading figures in animation was truly extraordinary.

With a full room, the energy was incredible — thank you to everyone who joined us!

Special thanks to Tatyana Franck, Director of L’Alliance New York, for her inspiring speech and continued support.

Many thanks to Delphine Selles-Alvarez and Chloé Dheu for making Animation First the first animation festival of its kind in the United States.

A shared pleasure year after year — this French in Motion × L’Alliance New York partnership.

Laetitia Doyle, Stephanie Valloatto, Gwenaelle Le Cochennec, Lucy Rice