The Harbourmaster is an animated documentary made by Mia L. Henriksen and Konrad Hjemli for their thesis film at Volda University College in 2022.
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The Harbourmaster is an animated documentary made by Mia L. Henriksen and Konrad Hjemli for their thesis film at Volda University College in 2022.
With over 4 decades of experience, Gemini Award–winning writer, Shelley Hoffman, brings a wide-ranging perspective to every project. In addition to developing and showrunning the international hit series Kid vs. Kat and Camp Lakebottom, she collaborates with broadcasters and production teams from across the globe to create high-quality storytelling, characters, action and humour. At her keyonte she will share her perspectives on the current market’s demands: from character-driven stories to meeting the needs of co-productions to creating IP’s with the power to cross platform.
A British chimney sweeper describes his everyday routine of forcing young kids to become workers. While we observe a kid cleaning a chimney, the master’s statement gets more personal with every sentence until we understand, that he is speaking about his own past. Being locked in a vicious circle, there seems to be no exit.
The Poliektova sisters will speak about transforming the initial idea of a story into a film, about the process of initial artwork, visuals and storyboarding. What are the important questions in the story and how can we create the main character?
This clip is taken from a 1938 short called “How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made”.
The bull is wild. The man wants to subdue him. Tame him. Eat him. And this since the dawn of time. TAURO – a short film about the second-oldest relationship in human history.
Director Don Hertzfeldt joins moderator Miguel Penabella (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a discussion of his films ME and It’s Such a Beautiful Day. They discuss his time as a UCSB student and his early interest in animation, as well as the development of his new film. Hertzfeldt also shares insights into his influences from silent cinema, and his thematic interests in deep time and memory across his work.
Bringing a make-believe world to life through stop-frame animation takes a large and talented team! See how all the pieces come together to make a stop-frame animation scene.
Inspired by Desert Island Comics, the iconic Brooklyn shop now indefinitely closed, this cut paper animation speaks to the connective power of comic books.
AnimatekaPRO is the Animateka festival platform for animation professionals and students. It was conceived as a place where one can learn about the latest trends, be updated on the latest developments, and meet exciting film professionals while exploring the fantastic world of animated film. As a part of AnimatekaPRO, for the fourth consecutive year, the AnimatekaPRO Pitch competition for projects in development will give an insight into the state of animation in ex-Yugoslav countries.
Puppet making made to make music.
The topic of this lecture is to provoke the audience into being more sensitive to their everyday surroundings and to take note of precious material for their work (in any form) in small, rarely noticed phenomena, situations, objects, and movements. Ideas are not far from us. We often just need to change the angle from which we are looking at apparently mundane things. In addition, I will suggest a few games that could become ways of turning the slow and sometimes overwhelming process of animation (frame by frame by frame after one more frame…) into something more playful, even adventurous.
Film Sierra premiered at Clermont-Ferrand. Here’s a little compilation of what was going on.
Behind the scenes of short film SIERRA.
Director interview with Shoko Hara. Film referenced in this interview: Shoko Hara – Just A Guy (2020).
Q&A with Gints Zilbalodis, director of FLOW, at Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
This Oscar-winning animated short from Chris Landreth is based on the life of Ryan Larkin, a Canadian animator who produced some of the most influential animated films of his time.
Rosamund Pike, the voice for Moominmamma, and Taron Egerton, the voice for Moomintroll, tell Moomin.com what it’s like to give a voice to a character with such a strong, loving fanbase, and why they think so many people love the Moomin stories and the philosophy behind them.
ROBOT DREAMS director/screenwriter/producer Pablo Berger discusses the film at the AMC Century City 15 in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 3, 2024. Video shot live on location, organized, assembled, written (via editing), & edited by TheMovieReport.com