Films

by Joanna Quinn

Joanna Quinn completed a foundation course in art at Goldsmiths College, University of London before studying for a BA in Graphic Design at Middlesex University. There she first discovered the magic of animation, quickly adapting her unique drawing abilities to produce beautifully fluid and dynamic animated passages. In 1985 she founded Beryl Productions with her partner, producer/writer Les Mills, and the couple have collaborated ever since. Joanna is now a highly acclaimed figure in world animation, having won over 90 international awards, including Emmys, Baftas and Jury prizes at all the major animation festivals. Two of her films have received Oscar© nominations. She has been honoured with retrospectives of her work in all over the world including Rome, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Stuttgart, Zagreb, Hiroshima, Toronto, Montreal, Gothenburg, Bradford, Cordoba, Tampere, Ottawa, Valencia and Taiwan.

• Film about animation

by Nick Park

Go behind the scenes with the real people that voiced your favourite Creature Comforts characters. Nick Park’s Creature Comforts took the classic documentary style and applied it to the lives of wild animals and pets, matching a cast of clay characters with human voices to charming effect. Originating from Nick’s 1989 Academy Award®-winning short film, Creature Comforts was unique for using unscripted vox-pop interviews with the British public in a stop motion series that has become an Aardman classic.

• Film about animation

by Amy Kravitz

In this presentation, experimental animator and educator Amy Kravitz discussed the process of creating, embracing, fragmenting, abandoning, shattering, and obscuring narratives to find what feels genuine and truthful.

• Film about animation

by Gerzsenyi Judit

The Primanima International First-Film Animation Festival returns, marking its 10th edition in Budaörs this year.

• Film about animation

by Láng Orsolya

The Primanima International First-Film Animation Festival returns, marking its 10th edition in Budaörs this year. This year, the animated short films arrive earlier than usual—running from October 5 to 8—at the Jókai Mór Cultural Center and BABtér, with Saturday events also taking place at the Municipal Youth Club. In addition to screenings for adults, teens, and children, the festival will once again feature workshops, discussions, and, of course, parties. Professional programs are taking on a new format, and Primanima Jumpstart—a hybrid talent development program—is launching as well.

• Film about animation

by Simon Bogojević-Narath

Simon Bogojević Narath was born in 1968 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department in Zagreb. He has been working on experimental film/video and video-installations since 1990. In 1993 he started working with 2D and 3D computer animation. His short experimental and animated films were screened and awarded at many international festivals. He teaches animation at the Arts Academy in Split, at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka and Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (Animation Department).

• Film about animation

by Nick Park

Aardman mainstays Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham visit BFI Southbank to talk about their work, including the new Wallace & Gromit adventure Vengeance Most Fowl. Four-time Oscar-winner Nick Park created the characters Wallace and Gromit at film school. He would go on to direct Creature Comforts, Early Man and, with Peter Lord, Chicken Run. He is a director of Aardman Animations and one the world’s leading stop-motion animators and filmmakers. The multi-talented Merlin Crossingham has worked on many of Aardman’s greatest films and is Creative Director of Wallace and Gromit at Aardman. He is also the director, with Nick Park, of the forthcoming Wallace and Gromit adventure Vengeance Most Fowl. They will discuss their careers at Aardman and share their insights into this glorious form of animation.

• Film about animation

by Marta Gennari, Giulia Martinelli

Marta Gennari and Giulia Martinelli about their friendship, creative process, prihodnosti and their film Merlot.

• Film about animation

by Makoto Shinkai

A lonely young woman adopts a cat on a rainy day.

• Teenage

by Moustapha Alassane

The adventures of a legendary hero, Sambagana, who, dazzled by the beauty of a princess, asks her in marriage. She imposes several tests, and he wins them all, but only death will eventually bring the two together.

• Adventure

by Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger applies her charming cutout animation technique to this early advertisement for the Nivea skin care company.

• No genre

by Leah Shore

For more then 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate to the outside world. Until now. These are actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best selling author Marlin Marynick and Charles Manson.

• Bio-pic

by Karen Yasinsky

Over the course of these two stop-motion films, made by Karen Yasinsky in 1999, a woman—with the help of a pair of ruby-red slippers—delves into her fantasies and confronts good and evil before returning safely to the reality of her life.

• Drama

by Victoria Linares Villegas

A film essay in which Victoria Linares Villegas, an only daughter, tries to understand her relationship with her mother by parsing through old photographs and new footage, looking at her relationship with her mother and her mother's relationship with her own mother.

• Family
• Drama

by Matthew Rankin

The fatal fall to Earth of heroic World War II pilot Andrew Mynarski is rendered with white-hot expressionist intensity in this stroboscopic collage of live action and animation.

• Action

by Michel Gondry

A father and daughter maintain their bond despite living in different countries through an imaginative nightly ritual where she suggests a title and he creates short animated films starring her as the hero.

• Family

by Drew Christie

Guy Maddin narrates a surreal animated ode to the Métis freedom fighter and founder of the province of Manitoba.

• Drama
• Bio-pic

by Lotte Reiniger

Prince Achmed goes for a ride on a flying horse.

• Fantasy

by Meriem Bennani

Meriem Bennani conjures an immersive augmented-reality world in the first two parts of a trilogy that issues a wild, up-to-the-minute commentary on diasporic cultures and the West’s dystopian immigration policies. A talking crocodile named Fiona acts as our guide though the CAPS, an island refugee camp in a future where teleportation has replaced airplanes.

• Drama

by Lotte Reiniger

One of Lotte Reiniger’s final films is an animated retelling of the biblical parable of the prodigal son.

• Drama