Hinterland screened in Animated Worlds at Bristol Encounters on Wednesday November 16 and Friday 18th.
Once again this was a very enjoyable festival. http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/
My highlights included:
John Kricfalusi talking about his work, in particular “Ren & Stimpy”. http://johnkstuff.blogspot.co.uk/
Shorts2Feature – Director Carol Morley and Producer Cairo Cannon talked about their two new features Edge and Dreams of a Life.
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The Grand Easter Egg Hunt was an official selection for the 17th annual Cucalorus Film Festival, Nov 10-13 in Wilmington, NC http://www.cucalorus.org/
If I hadn’t been at BAF, I might have gone to this festival. They were very keen for film makers to attend and were even giving funds for travel.
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Bradford Animation Festival -8-12th November
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/bradfordanimationfestival
Linda and Steve in foyer of National Media Museum. All the yellow posters with Steven’s drawings looked fabulous and behind us our festival Ident and other shorts screened on a continuous loop. Also live Twitter and photo feed screens.
Very nice to see the Ident on such a massive screen. To maintain quality, we supplied 4 GB version of the 45 sec film to BAF.
Hinterland screened in Panorama 2 on Wednesday and Friday.
Details of all the Shorts which screened at BAF can be seen on http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/BradfordAnimationFestival/whatson.aspx
Steven signs his new book, The Coffee Table Book of Doom alongside the miniature puppet of himself made by Linda McCarthy.
BAF was excellent, as usual, with many interesting programmes.
Steve Henderson captured a couple of these highlights in his
informative and entertaining articles in Skwigley Magazine.
http://www.skwigly.co.uk/fraser-maclean-setting-the-scene-book-review-and-interview/
http://www.skwigly.co.uk/the-last-belle-and-neil-boyle/
Kath Shackleton from Animated Yorkshire http://www.animatedyorkshire.co.uk/
invited me to take part in the Tenacity and Talent Networking Event
alongside five other animators – Tim Searle, Mole Hill, David Bunting,
Matt Howarth and Rob Millington. This event is summarized
in Kath’s blog http://tenacityandtalent.blogspot.com/
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Hinterland’s other festivals in October which I couldn’t attend were
Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival – Oct 21-23rd
http://www.stopmotionmontreal.com/Festival.html
Flip International Animation Festival – 28-30th Oct
http://www.flipfestival.co.uk/
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Raindance Film Festival
26th September-7thOctober http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/festival
Hinterland Screened in Shorts Programme 3: Animated Displays.
A good excuse for another visit to London. Played to a packed audience at The Apollo, Picadilly.
http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/shorts-programmes-2011
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London International Animation Festival
26th August-4th September 2011 http://www.liaf.org.uk/
Hinterland Screened in the British Showcase.
I always enjoy attending LIAF, but unfortunately could only manage
an overnight visit to attend the British Panorama. The Barbican was this year’s venue.
http://www.liaf.org.uk/2011/07/british-showcase-15/
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Supertoons International Animation Festival,
Bol, Brac, Croatia – Jul31st-Aug4th 2011 http://www.supertoonfestival.com/
What a beautiful venue for an animation festival! It was very
enjoyable and our hosts were friendly and welcoming.
The Grand Easter Egg Hunt screened in World Panorama.
The town of Bol on the Island of Brac
The outdoor cinema
Igor Prassel talking with film makers. Organizer Ivan Klepac on the right.
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Tiny Elephants was delighted to screen the complete collection of four Small Birds Singing films at Latitude…on Friday 15th July.
http://www.latitudefestival.co.uk/2011/lineup/artist/tiny_elephants
The Film and Music Arena, outside and inside…
We had the best weather on Friday, sunny and warm, but during the night the rain came down. Despite the rain and mud, it was an amazing experience and I was gratefull to be there screening my films. Thank you Tania.
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A TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS AT SMALL BIRDS SINGING screened at Edinburgh in 2009, and I was looking forward to visiting Edinburgh again this year with HINTERLAND, screening in the Nokia Shorts Weekender programme, Animated Interations. http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/This year there were no prizes… we were there to see films, meet people and hopefully make a few interesting contacts. The Festivalhouse@Teviot was the EIFF 2011 hub hosting a wide range of events, debates, installations, club nights and screenings. I enjoyed the Nokia Shorts Animation screenings, Bafta and Shooting People Short Sighted was informative http://shootingpeople.org/shortsighted/, and I was pleased to watch Chris Shepherd’s films again at his master class ‘Making the leap from short film to features’ http://www.chrisshepherdfilms.com/ Another interesting event was Aardman and Wieden + Kennedy: Shooting world record for smallest stop-motion animation.
And their new attempt to make the largest stop-motion animation which is a work in progress. I also dipped in and out of an informative two day conference on Animated Documentaries http://www.animatedrealities.co.uk/ which was a great opportunity to meet old friends and make new ones.
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Annecy Animation Festival is the biggest animation event of the year, and is not for the faint-hearted. Now on my seventh year, I’m beginning to get the hang of it. Once again it was a fantastic festival! For best coverage of the festival, read Steve Henderson’s Annecy coverage on Sqwigly Online Animation Magazine.
http://www.skwigly.co.uk/annecy-2011-day-1/
Breakfast interviews with short film directors
The band plays at Nik and Nancys picnic…Wesley – melodian, Alexey – guitar and Nik – trumpet.
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