A classroom erupts into a war of words as students grapple with a seemingly simple prompt: what is the opposite of a gun?
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A classroom erupts into a war of words as students grapple with a seemingly simple prompt: what is the opposite of a gun?
Oscar-winning animation director and writer Adam Elliot speaks candidly about his stop motion animation processes, the making of Mary and Max and, more importantly, about why he makes films.
A military man works in a nursing home. He is always watching these shaved, elderly people, but fail to understand them at a personal level. One day, he sees their faces.
The film, released as part of World Environment Day, looks back from 2050 to show how people came together to save the world from the climate and ecological crisis.
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.
Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, find out its unrecognised anatomy and its unknown herstory.
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”.
It is about sex from a woman’s point of view. Explicit and educational.
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.
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.
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.
Until yesterday, it never occurred to the three birds to look at the world around them, but today, when they heard certain voices for the first time, they decided to do something significant…
Q&A with Gints Zilbalodis, director of FLOW, at Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
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
This is a 2D animated online series for children, created with the Bratislava Policy Institute as part of the Rayuela project to explain online safety. Set in an 8-bit game world and led by two fox heroes, it covers topics like cyberbullying, online harassment, and misinformation.