IFC Films has released the first American trailer for Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail, the winner of the top prize for a feature film at Annecy earlier this year.
The Australian animated feature is due to be released October 25 in the United States, with broader expansion in November. It will have its North American premiere this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival and will also screen next month at the Ottawa Int’l Animation Festival.
Notably, the month of October will be jam-packed with theatrical animation releases. Besides Elliot’s latest, there is also Look Back (GKIDS, Oct. 4), Scarygirl (Viva Pictures, Oct. 4), My Hero Academia: You’re Next (Toho International, Oct. 11), and Piece by Piece(Focus Features, Oct. 11). What’s remarkable about this group of films is how different each one is from the others. Not a single one of these releases is a four-quadrant movie from a major, and each fills a unique niche in the …