Author: Alys Scott Hawkins
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From our friends at DOK Leipzig: “Dear Friends, We are so pleased to announce that the 10th International DOK Leipzig Co-Production Meeting is now open for submissions. We are looking for: Creative documentaries in development that are international in scope and looking for diverse financing partners, from Germany and abroad. In particular, theatrical documentaries intended…
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Mario from Tess Martin on Vimeo. “In Italian playgrounds a song is sung that dates back to World War I. This paint on glass animation tells the dark tale of a soldier who returns home from war to find his girlfriend has left him.” Tess Martin is a film-maker whose work ‘The Whale Story’ we…
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‘On Tuesday 4 February, Alec Finlay and Iain Gardner will premiere two new animated works that have been developed over the last year in a special, free event for World Cancer Day at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre, London. Navigations is a project about the brain, cancer, and the respective approaches of medical science and…
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The Chaperone 3D Trailer from Thoroughbread Pictures on Vimeo. Something new here – I’m fairly certain this is the first animated documentary made in stereoscopic 3D that we’ve featured! Is this a new movement in animadoc film-making? It’s definitely one that I didn’t see coming. Just the trailer available to view on Vimeo at present.…
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http://www.injunuity.org/#!/about Four episodes of this series about Native American identity are available to watch online. I found the episode ‘Two Spirit’ of particular interest. It’s about gender, sexuality and identity “Injunuity is a collage of reflections on the Native American world, our shared past, our turbulent present, and our undiscovered future. From Columbus to the western…
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‘TO SAY GOODBYE is a powerful and inspirational film about the loss of childhood, the stripping away of identity and, ultimately, the hope of reconciliation, all set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War. Through innovative animation, the film tells the story of the 4000 Basque children evacuated to the United Kingdom in 1937.…
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Irish Folk Furniture [clip] (2012) from Alan Eddie on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/59224188 We must have been busy with all sorts of of other things here at the blog (we have! – more soon) as it’s taken us a few months to catch up with this short which won the Short Film Jury Prize for Animation at…
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“An inspirational conference lab on the current trends of new media providing access to new information, intense networking and individual support for transmedia projects linked to documentary or animation. Friday & Saturday, 1 & 2 November 2013 The DOK Leipzig Net Lab 2013 is a two part conference lab open for transmedia creatives, thinkers and…
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An article about this very blog, which I was invited to write for the the Society for Animation Studies blog. Blogging about blogging! Well in this case it’s reviewing films we’ve looked at on the blog so far, in order to assess the animadoc landscape; as something of a follow-up to other articles on the…
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News in of the five day animadoc workshop which will run as part of Animation Summer, the Tricky Women Summer Academy, at the University of Applied Sciences in St. Polten. Led by Sam Moore, participants will work collaboratively to produce a short film. This is just one of a programme of creative animation workshops running…
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