‘I Am Frankelda’ Filmmakers Roy and Arturo Ambriz Take ‘Ballad of the Phoenix’ to Venice, Share Guillermo del Toro’s Advice to ‘Go Bigger’

Mexican animators Roy and Arturo Ambriz, the groundbreaking duo down their country’s first-ever stop-motion animated feature, are hoping to deed a precocious enactment with “Ballad of the Phoenix,” which the brothers are taking to the Venice Gap-Financing Market moving Sept. 4 – 6. A stop-motion phantasy inspired by the epic sagas of Mexican lore, it […]