Category: News & Events
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No posts for a few days while we take a break from work over Christmas. But we have lots of exciting things in store for 2013: film-maker interviews, guest bloggers and much more! Thanks to you all for following us in 2012. Best wishes for a happy holiday – whatever you’re celebrating – and we…
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This day long symposium was designed and delivered by Animation Therapy’s Helen Mason, at this years Encounters Short film and animation festival in September 2012. ‘Animation on prescription’ brought together health professionals, animators and artists at a day long symposium exploring the following themes: animation as a process in a therapy setting, therapeutic interventions as…
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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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Originally posted on Animating Documentary: Last week I went to the launch of Centrefold, at the Wellcome Trust in London. The film, directed by Ellie Land (one half of the team behind this great animated docs blog), is about female genital cosmetic surgery and aims to provide a non-judgemental look at labia surgery and ‘encourage informed…
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Another tip-off from Annegret Richter at the brilliant DOK Leipzig festival. Here are two programmes of animadoc films by female film-makers which she curated for the Tricky Women festival in Vienna, Austria last year. http://www.trickywomen.at/index.php?id=252 http://www.trickywomen.at/festival/tricky-women-bisher/2011/programm/animated-documentaries-2/
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I was lucky enough to sneak my way on to Dennis’ two day workshop at the Royal College of Art in London, last week. An Australian director with extensive experience in making both live action and animated documentary films, Dennis provided the MA Animation students with an insight into his work. He screened ‘The Darra…
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Launched last year, DOCartoon is ‘the first festival in the world to be primarily dedicated to animated documentaries and non-fiction comics’. A mix of short and feature-length animadoc films, meetings and exhibitions takes place in an ancient city of Tuscany. Sounds like fun! There’s a Call for Entries on the home page for the this…
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Edinburgh College of Art hosted a collaborative event with the Edinburgh International Film Festival: the Animated Realities conference: ‘a truly interdisciplinary event and a new platform for ideas’. The jointly curated animated documentary festival programmes of the festival including Iranian feature ‘The Green Wave’ were screened as part of the conference. Keynote speakers included Sheila…
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In 2010 the annual Society for Animation Studies conference was held at Edinburgh College of Art, in Scotland. The 22nd Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference
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http://docchallenge.org/International Doc Challenge, accomplished by our Alys this year!
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