Category: Festivals
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Darn it, news of this event in June passed us by – but what a line up of fascinating nuggets it is, programmed by London Short Film Festival and Animate Projects And all films are available to watch online, which makes this a screen-at-home programme you can enjoy yourself! Films can be found in the…
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Still image from ‘Still Born’ Fresh news from DOK Leipzig: Two animated documentaries have won awards. Firstly the Winner of the Golden Dove for best International Animated Film at DOK Leipzig is an animated documentary called ‘Still Born’ by Åsa Sandzén, a very touching film about a mother who has to decide what is best for her…
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Last call from DOK Leipzig: ‘Dear Friends and Colleagues, ***Less than 10 days to submit your film in development to the 10th International DOK Leipzig Co-Production Meeting!!*** If you are looking for co-production partners and to meet financiers in an intimate and productive environment, we invite you to submit your projects now for consideration. Deadline…
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This looks like a fascinating event at DOK Leipzig this October! If any of our readers are going, we would love to hear from you. Event details are below: Dear documentary and animation film lovers and makers, we ‘d like to invite you to another great DOK Industry event: Anima meets Doc: Expanded, Thursday, 31 October…
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Great news over at the documentary and animation festival DOK Leipzig, they have just announced that this year they will be giving a prize to the best animated documentary in the festival. There is still time to enter! To find out more, read their press release here: http://www.dok-leipzig.de/festival/festival-news?start:int=0
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It seems that puppets are further crossing the threshold of reality by taking on non-fictional roles. Though this is not animation, the documentary genre is forever expanding and shifting mediums, even extending to live puppet shows. Dan Hurlin’s ‘Disfarmer,’ is a biographical puppetry performance about the American realist portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer, whose haunting and intimate…
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Screening in London on the 18th & 20th March as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, this feature tells the story of Shin Dong-Huyk, born into a North Korean prison camp as the son of political prisoners. Using animated sequences which are not perhaps the most elegant, the film nonetheless take us into…
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A brilliant selection of films this year by the Tricky Women Festival in Vienna, Austria, including a special animated documentary programme. It’s a fantastic festival, do get yourself along if you happen to be in Vienna! 6th – 10th March http://www.trickywomen.at/
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Dok Leipzig is now finished for another year, and as always the festival has done the animated documentary community proud with its programmes on anima doc. For those that didn’t know Leipzig is the first festival to curate a programme solely for animated doc, and has been championing the genre for over 15 years. I…
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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…
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