Welcome director Mike Rianda to chat about the power and perils of feedback, first films, explaining working in animation to your family, and of course his feature directorial debut, The Mitchells vs. The Machines.

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From the humans who brought you the Academy Award®-winning Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The LEGO Movie comes The Mitchells vs.  The Machines, an animated action-comedy about an ordinary family who find  themselves in the middle of their biggest family challenge yet…saving the  world from the robot apocalypse. No big deal, right? It all starts when creative  outsider Katie Mitchell is accepted into the film school of her dreams and is  eager to leave home and find “her people,” when her nature-loving dad insists  on having the whole family drive her to school and bond during one last totally not-awkward-or-forced road trip. But just when the trip can’t get any worse, the  family suddenly finds itself in the middle of the robot uprising! Everything from  smart phones, to roombas, to evil Furbys are employed to capture every human  on the planet. Now it’s up to the Mitchells, including upbeat mom Linda, quirky  little brother Aaron, their squishy pug, Monchi, and two friendly, but simple minded robots to save humanity.

Directed by Michael Rianda (Gravity Falls), produced by Oscar® winners  Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and Kurt Albrecht, and featuring the voices of  Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Beck Bennett, Fred Armisen,  Eric Andre, and Oscar winner Olivia Colman, The Mitchells vs. The Machines is about embracing the things that make us unique, learning what it means  to be human in a world increasingly filled with technology, and holding tight  to the people most important to you when the unexpected hits.

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