This year's festival is placing special focus on French animators, for whom
Annecy is a traditional mecca.
Annecy is billed as the world's top reference for animation films.
Villa Meia, which is planned by developer MGM, will comprise just four apartments within the peaceful pedestrianised heart of
Annecy, famed for its cobbled streets and 'Little Venice' canal network.
Mr Brabon, who was a chef at the Gosforth Park Hotel and a food lecturer at South Tyneside College before emigrating, has penned 'Savoie Fayre', an introduction to the regional ingredients and dishes of
Annecy, a popular destination for tourists.
Enjoying an idyllic peaceful setting, developers MGM are expecting demand for the last apartments to be high especially with news that
Annecy has been short listed as a contender to host the Winter Olympics in 2018.
"
Annecy holds a special place," says DreamWorks co-president and producer Bonnie Arnold, who premiered "How to Train Your Dragon 2" there last year.
"If
Annecy wins it is inevitable that the demand for property will soar as planning for the Winter Olympics gets underway, so capital growth and rental incomes can be expected to rocket."
The university town of
Annecy, a centre for sailing and watersports in summer and less than half an hour by road from ski resorts like Le Grand Bornand and La Clusaz, will be just 30 minutes from Geneva Airport when a new motorway link opens later this year.
Major organization :
ANNECY MAIRIE SERVICE FINANCES
"That's when I started discovering the potential of
Annecy. As soon as my short film 'Boomtown' screened there, I was bombarded by people who wanted to buy it.
The intervention plan for the winter service of the city of
annecy is based on a device using the human and material resources of the community.
Plans for the festival began in 1956, when Association de distribution du film director Pierre Barbin met with the
Annecy film club (which boasted more than 5,000 members), proposing to mount a program of animated films during the Cannes festival to counter the lack of interest in animation and animators there.
