Category: News & Events

  • 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…

  • Well we have had a fabulous year to date so far here at animateddocumentary.com. Particularly with the addition of our two contributors Alex Widdowson and Charlotte Kaye. Charlotte has now moved on to other things, but we are thrilled that Alex has continued to write for the blog and we hope that he will stay…

  • ‘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.…

  • “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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • More exciting new animadoc events! Deadline 14th April. ‘AniDox Lab is the first ever workshop dedicated exclusively to the animated documentary genre. ‘Run by The Animation Workshop, Anidox Lab will offer talented documentary and animation filmmakers the opportunity to engage and combine their two worlds. It will tackle both a time-based cinematic approach, as well…

  • We’ve just been asked to share details of an event at Arts University Bournemouth next Tuesday. This is not animadoc-specific but the invitation comes from animadoc specialist Paul Ward, so we are be sure it will be relevant! If you wish to attend, and require directions, please contact Valerie Lodge (vlodge@aub.ac.uk) Current Issues in Animation…

  • 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/

  • Up coming talk by academic and fellow blogger Bella Honess Roe – one not to miss! ‘Animated Interjections: The use of animation in documentary’ Monday 28th January AUB campus Room F102 4.30pm In her forthcoming book Animated Documentary (Palgrave, 2013), Bella Honess Roe examines the convergence of animation and documentary and how animation functions as…