In a major upset, Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis‘ “Flow” won the Golden Globe for best animated feature on Sunday evening. A co-production between Latvia, Belgium, and France with a modest $3.7 ...

Having animals walking and talking like people in animation is a fairly common occurrence, but Flow director Gints Zilbalodis wanted to focus on immersing the viewer in a fully animal perspective.

Animal welfare becomes the responsibility of the animals themselves in the gorgeous, hypnotic Latvian animated feature “Flow,” in which a solitary cat encounters a catastrophic flood and, along with a ...

Flow animated film by Gints Zilbalodis Image via Dream Well Studio Some of the best films are made on a small budget, and for the Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis, money did not equate to creative ...

In the animated film space, two things naturally come to mind: stories for children and big-budget, formulaic projects. The former idea is something directors have been fighting for years, a recent ...

“Walking around Riga city there are Flow posters everywhere and people are doing graffiti of cats,” filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis said of the response to his history-making sophomore feature in his home ...