Tag: animated documentary
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Sheila M. Sofian’s animated documentary films have played at festivals including Annecy, Ottawa, Hiroshima, and Zagreb among many others. Her work includes numerous short films as well as the hour-long animation/live action hybrid documentary ‘Truth Has Fallen’ (2013). She received her BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the California…
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In the new episode of the Animated Documentary Podcast we talk to director Rosie Schellenberg. Rosie has over twenty years of experience making award-winning films and television programmes. Her latest film, Turner: the Secret Sketchbooks, broadcasts on Wednesday 19th November at 21:00 on BBC Two. This stunning biographic documentary, looking at the life of the pioneering painter…
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WATCH ONLINE: Animate Projects’ Accelerate Session, exploring the role of animation in a range of contemporary non-fiction creative storytelling contexts. The panel was hosted by Carla MacKinnon and included: journalist, filmmaker, and VR/AR pioneer, Nonny de la Peña; animator and director Samantha Moore; and producer Rebecca Mark Lawson.
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Jordan Antonowicz-Behnan is a filmmaker, animator and visual artist based in Hastings. Behnan’s practice borrows largely from Assemblage; any item can be utilised in his work, and his animation style is unpolished, complementing his hands-on approach to filmmaking. His animated documentary A Taste for Music (2022) was his graduation film from the Royal College of Art’s Animation MA, and has shown widely, including at Animafest Zagreb,…
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COME is a hybrid live action and animated documentary, in which fluid handcrafted animation is used to visualize personal and sensitive accounts of female orgasm. The film was made by the powerful daughter-and-mother team of director Bronwen Parker-Rhodes and animator Erica Russell. We asked Bronwen and Erica some questions about their process of making the…
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We are delighted to be working with Animate Projects on their next online Accelerate Session, which will explore the role of animation in contemporary non-fiction creative storytelling. Host Carla MacKinnon will be joined by journalist, filmmaker and VR/AR pioneer Nonny de la Peña, director and animator Samantha Moore, and producer Rebecca Mark Lawson. BSL interpretation and…
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In this new episode of the Animated Documentary podcast, Carla MacKinnon talks to animated documentary filmmaker and researcher Samantha Moore about her creative background, her collaborative filmmaking methodology, developing and funding animated documentaries, and her BAFTA-nominated short film Visible Mending (2023). Samantha Moore is a filmmaker whose interest is in collaborative animation practice. She is interested in…
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Miranda Peyton Jones is a filmmaker and moving image artist specialising in analogue and stop-motion animation. Jeremy, my Father, her 2022 graduation film from Kingston School of Art, is a short animated documentary that navigates bereavement following suicide. The film has screened widely and received numerous accolades, including a Royal Television Society award and a…
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The Society for Animation Studies (SAS) wrapped up its annual conference yesterday, following four days of talks, panels, and screenings (and one rowdy animation pub quiz). As ever, the event brought together animators and scholars from around the world to discuss a dizzying range of animation-related topics. The conference theme – Sustaining Animation – established…
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Blanche Malet is an artist and filmmaker based in London and Paris. Her short animated documentary Sutures et Consolation (Stitches and Solace) was made in 2023, during her Masters degree at Royal College of Art. The film, which takes an autoethnographic and multimedia approach to exploring grief, has played at festivals and galleries internationally, including…
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