The Associated Press, via Twin Cities local news station WCCO, has written an article on Dan Lund’s 40-minute documentary, Dream On Silly Dreamer, which covers the closing of Disney’s 75-year-old hand-drawn animation department. The film will be screened this Thursday in Minneapolis, a day before the annual Disney shareholder meeting. “Lund said he hopes Disney shareholders see his nostalgic look at the end of Disney’s in-house hand-drawn animation and then go to the meeting ‘with a sense of loss’ and tell management ‘maybe that division means more than just a financial thing.'”
Twin Cities local paper The Star Tribune [free registration required] also covers the event, and spotlights the “indigenous” director, a graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), who had worked as a special effects animator at Disney for 15 years.