Pixar Animation Studios Gives Exclusive Panel To “Gatto” At Annecy Film Festival 2026

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Pixar Animation Studios will give a special panel to their upcoming film “Gatto” for the Annecy Film Festival slated for June 21 to June, 27. The panel will feature director Enrico Casarosa discussing the creative ethos and unique hand painted animation style for the new film slated for Spring 2027.

Pixar Animation Studios - Gatto Showcase

Go behind the scenes of Pixar’s upcoming feature film Gatto, with Academy Award-nominated Director Enrico Casarosa, as he whisk(er)s audiences away into a world of Venetian canals, feline mob bosses and trepidatious superstition. Here you’ll learn about the film’s creative ethos and unique hand painted animation style, and how Casarosa and his team at Pixar brought this original story to life.

“ Gatto ” introduces a black cat named Nero who, after years of maneuvering the canal-ridden, superstitious city of Venice, Italy, begins to question whether he’s lived the right lives. Indebted to a local feline mob boss, Nero finds himself in a quandary and is forced to forge a truly unexpected friendship that may finally lead him to his purpose – unless Venice gets the better of him first. Releasing in theaters March 5, 2027,