Month: August 2012

  • ‘Talking ‘Kiwi ‘ by Simeen Douglas and Toni Chase

    Animadoc looking at the feelings about immigration and cultural conformity in New Zealand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf1jhPls8Lc

  • ‘Why I had an FGC’ by Suzanne Cohen

      Interviews with UK teens about being part of Family Group Conferencing. This fully animated documentary was commissioned by the (UK) social services and produced in collaboration with BSc Computer Animation students at London Metropolitan University. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbRKtO78h4

  • ‘Invisible Slaves’ by MTV Exit

    Two clips from ‘Invisible Slaves’, MTV Exit’s new film featuring the stories of four young people as part of a campaign to combat human trafficking in Mexico. Presented by Puerto Rican band Calle 13 the film brings together the Pan American Development Foundation with the Mexican government, private sector companies, and civil society groups to…

  • ‘Ex Libris’ by Melissa Hacker

    Ex Libris is a hybrid non-fiction film using animation, collage, and first person narrative to trace the vanished world of the ex libris collection my grandfather, Marco Birnholz, commissioned, created and lost in Vienna between the two world wars. Ex Libris will explore the intimate, intricate universe my grandfather created in his collection, and the exploding world he…

  • ‘McLaren’s Negatives’ by Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre

    We love animated films about animators… here’s an animated portrait of Scots – Canadian animator Norman Mclaren. Featured in ‘Crossing Identities Best of Anima doc at Doc Leipzig‘ programmed by Annegret Richter. McLaren’s Negatives is a short animated documentary directed by French Canadian filmmaker Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre. The film is a study of the Canadian animator…

  • ‘Ping Pong’ by George Gendi

    Described as ‘marital pingpong’ by Gendi, this ink drawn animation is a beautiful portrait of married life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vO8y5F1afE