Author: Ellie Land

  • Exciting schedule of events in the first week of November in Wolverhampton. The University of Wolverhampton is holding an animation postgraduate research event curated by animated documentary director and academic Samantha Moore, as well as the start of the Flip Animation Festival. More details below: The full programme of presentations is now available on-line for our animation post…

  • Great line up of animated films and comics that deal with non-fiction, curated by Thomas Martinelli. It starts on the 6th October in Pietrasanta, Italy. http://www.docartoon.it/index_eng.html You can follow the action on Facebook here.

  • A great program here of the very latest films in animated documentary, at London International Animation Festival, screening on October 28th. Perhaps now I should admit that, I feature as an interviewee in Sam Blains film ‘In Dreams’. http://www.liaf.org.uk/2012/09/animated-documentaries-15-2/

  • Fun article, highlighting some of the tensions documentary directors explore between the real and the unreal. With examples from this years Toronto Film Festival. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/09/04/f-hybrid-documentaries-tiff-2012.html

  •   We can only find a clip for this animated documentary, but it’s one we would like to include! https://vimeo.com/33210503

  •   Here are animateddocumentary.com we are pleased to share the latest work by Samantha Moore. Here are two trailers from her up and coming film Shadow Stories, which features objects from Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery’s pre-historic gallery. Samantha is working with four different animators, two of whom have provided the beautiful, painterly animated responses for the…

  • ‘PressPausePlay’ is a documentary with animated sequences. Here is Stuart Langfield’s contribution. This comes via Boaz Lederer’s <a href="https://vimeo.com/channels/docoanim/22950788&quot; title=”Docoanim channel on Vimeo” target=”_blank”>docoanim channel on Vimeo.

  • An animated documentary about all American War hero John Ross. This film has an interesting method of raising funds for its production, including creating characters to look like the Army Platoon ‘Misfits’ currently serving in Afghanistan. The Blog has trailers and concept art, as well as interviews with John Ross himself. http://johnrossamerican.com/

  • Another one from animated documentray gems over on Vimeo, this animation created with ink, Sarah Nesteruk makes sense of her family history. https://vimeo.com/channels/docoanim/14003615

  •     We have previously posted about the Animadoc channel over on Vimeo, it’s curator Boaz Lederer has kindly given us permission to feature some of his collection here at animateddocumentary.com. We start with this short animation, a deeply moving story of family loss due to the Iraq War. Slate and pastel animation sensitively supports…