Leslie Iwerks in discussion with two filmmakers

The legacy of Mickey Mouse at Lucas Film Festival in Frankfurt
September 11-12, 2009. U.S. filmmaker and Academy Award nominee Leslie Iwerks fascinated a captive audience of filmmakers and an interested public at the 32. LUCAS International Children’s Film Festival in Frankfurt with stories about her grandfather Ub Iwerks, companion of Walt Disney, designer and co-creator of Mickey Mouse. Iwerks presented two of her documentary films, “The Hand behind the Mouse – the Ub Iwerks Story”, and “The Pixar Story”, which chronicles the history, business, artistic triumphs and challenges of Pixar Animation Studios and the computer animation art form they pioneered. LUCAS International Children’s Film Festival organized by the German Film Institute (DIF) is the longest-running children’s film festival in Germany and presents artistically and thematically worthy films, which make foreign cultures understandable.