The Luxembourg-France-US co-production animated film White Fang (Croc-Blanc) will have its world premier at the Sundance Film Festival which starts today, 18 January 2018; the screening will be on Sunday 21 January in the Kids Section of the festival.

White Fang is directed by Luxembourg filmmaker Alexandre Espigares, winner of an Oscar® for Best Animated Short Film in 2014 for Mr. Hublot along with co-director Laurent Witz. It is a co-production between Bidibul Productions (LU), Superprod (FR) and Big Beach (USA).

The Sundance Film Festival, a programme of the Sundance Film Institute, is the largest independent film festival in the United States. For the 2018 Festival, 100 feature-length films were selected, representing 29 countries and 47 first-time filmmakers, including 30 in competition. These films were selected from 13,4568 submissions including 3,901 feature-length films and 8,740 short films.

White Fang, inspired by the famous novel by Jack London, is a story about redemption or how a wolfhound caught in a spiral of violence becomes, in spite of himself, a legend dreaded and feared to then return to his true nature guided by a couple of humans.

The film won the Gan Foundation Award for Best Work in Progress at the Annecy Festival 2016.

The Luxembourg world premiere is set for 9 March 2018 at the Philharmonie Luxembourg where it will be accompanied by the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, conducted by one of its composers, Gast Waltzing, Grammy Award® Winner.