Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Laura-Beth Cowley in conversation with Mike Rianda, director of the Sony Pictures Animation/Netflix animated feature The Mitchells vs. The Machines.

Mike’s animation career includes his hugely successful CalArts film Work, as well as his role as creative director and writer on Disney’s critically-acclaimed and BAFTA-winning series Gravity Falls.

In his new film, co-written and co-directed with Jeff Rowe and produced by Oscar winning duo Phil Lord, Chris Miller as well as Kurt Albrecht, we follow creative outsider Katie Mitchell whose hopes of a new start at her dream film school are dashed by her nature-loving dad’s insistence on one final road trip where the two might finally bond.

The already-doomed venture is scuppered further by a technological uprising, with every gadget from smartphones to Furbys joining forces to capture and rid the world of humans. The Mitchells will have to work together in order to stop the robot apocalypse.

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Interview conducted by: Laura-Beth Cowley
Guest: Mike Rianda
Presented, edited and produced by: Ben Mitchell
Music and graphics: Ben Mitchell