Alain Bidard

Alain Bidard (aka Alan Bidard) is an award-winning animation film producer/director from the French island of Martinique in the Caribbean. During the two past decades, he has produced and directed animated feature and short films, animated series, documentaries, and live-action films which won more than 300 awards and 600 nominations in festivals worldwide. In 2015, Alain Bidard made history in releasing the first animated feature film ever made in Martinique — “Battledream Chronicle”, awarded by 24 awards and 70 nominations worldwide. Then in 2018, he created the first Caribbean animated TV series for which the pilot won 30 awards and 120 nominations worldwide. In March 2022, Alan Bidard was invited by the Carnegie Hall for the Afrofuturism Festival in New York for a showcase of his works. In May 2022, Alan Bidard was chosen by Her Royal Majesty Queen Angelique Monet of Eti-Oni to receive the Best Animation Film Award in the Artisan Festival International World Peace Initiative AFI in Cannes. As for now, Alain Bidard is the only Caribbean animation film director who won that many recognitions. In December 2021, Alain Bidard released his second animated feature film, “Opal”, an afrofantasy tale which premiered in the Animae Caribe Animation Festival in Trinidad and which has won 210 awards and 280 nominations in festivals worldwide so far.