PRESS KIT ANIMA 2017

1 ANIMA 2017 SUMMARY

1. THE PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE 1.1. THE OPENING AND CLOSING FILMS 1.2. FEATURES 1.3. SHORT FILMS 2. FOCUSES 3. FUTURANIMA PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS 4. EVENTS 5. JURIES AND PRIZES 6. ANIMA’S GUESTS 7. ANIMA + 8. ANIMA DECENTRALIZATIONS 9. PRESS INFO 10. HANDY INFO

2 ANIMA 2017 FESTIVAL PRESENTATION

Anima is the Brussels International Animation Film Festival, This year Portugal and Italy will be the Festival's guest created by an animation fanatic over 30 years ago. Since then, countries. The public will be able to get to know more about the event has grown continuously to reach a record number of the animation production from both these countries through a 42,000 visitors in 2016. programme of screenings and conferences.

Anima 2017 is set to take place in Flagey, from 24th February to New technologies have been given a particularly special place 5th March. Part of the Festival programme will also be shown in this year as Anima 2017 will be hosting the second Experience theatres in Flanders (Ghent, Antwerp, Louvain and Genk) and festival (Brussels Virtual Reality Festival) and conferences, Wallonia (Ath, Mons, Charleroi, Namur and Liege). as well as an installation using mapping, motion capture and augmented reality. Ten days completely given over to animation, with a total of 279 films to be screened in 98 sessions, and spotlighting a national There's even a little psychedelic touch to the proceedings, and international competition of shorts and feature films up inspired by the Mandalas created by Brussels-based filmmaker for vote by the juries and the public. Also on the Anima bill: a Nicolas Fong for the Anima 2017 visuals. selection of conferences for the Futuranima professional days and many special programmes.

5 GOOD REASONS FOR VISITING ANIMA: 1 Anima is a great opportunity to see LOTS of films, many previously unseen, and coming from all over the world. 2 Anima also gives its public the chance to meet up with the makers of these films, to listen to them talking about their work and even ask them questions about the process. 3 Anima offers a big choice of films and activities for the kids and a great family outing (workshops / face painting / exhibitions / pancakes) during the school holidays in Belgium. 4 Anima is a meeting place for industry professionals and students studying animation to exchange thoughts and ideas. 5 Anima is also a festival that is becoming more and more recognized on the international scene. So much so, that it is now a qualifying festival for the Cartoon d’Or (award for the best European animated short) and for the Oscars (if you please!)

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As the main objective of the Festival is to show off the richness of animation, Anima is strongly committed to offering its public a diverse and high-quality selection of films. Anima celebrates animation from the world over: out of the 279 films chosen, no fewer than 33 nations are represented to present a vast international and eclectic sampling of the animated art.

1.1. Opening and Closing Films

 OPENING FILM:  CLOSING FILM: LOUSIE IN WINTER by Jean-François Laguionie ETHEL & ERNEST by Roger Mainwood

Anima is taking flight with Jean-François Laguionie's latest The curtain will come down on the 36th Anima after the feature Louise in Winter. screening of Roger Mainwood's feature Ethel & Ernest.

Louise misses the last train out of the little (fictional) sea-side A shift to the screen for the eponymous graphic novel by resort of Biligen. Instead of fretting about the situation, the old illustrator Raymond Briggs, already hailed back in 1982 for the lady decides to improvise like an ill-equipped Robinson. She popular animated adaptation of his book The Snowman. wanders around the stunning and incredibly authentic setting Inspired by the story of Raymond Briggs' parents, the film of northern France, going back over her past, her childhood retraces the daily life of Ethel, the lady's maid, and Ernest, thwe memories and first loves. milkman, against a backdrop of some of the major events of Superbly voiced by French actress Dominique Frot and set to the 20th century, from the Depression to Neil Armstrong's first music by Pascal Le Pennec, Louise invites us to celebrate the steps on the moon. passing of time. Director Roger Mainwood will be attending the screening. Jean-François Laguionie will be attending the screening and the Festival is using the occasion to devote a retrospective programme to the majority of his films and a documentary about him, Le Rêveur Eveillé. Louise-en-hiver © Gebeka films

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Eighteen films have been chosen for the Anima 2017 Official Selection. Six will be presented in the international competition, five others in the international competition for a young audience and the others presented out of competition.

MOLLY MONSTER, Ted Sieger, Michael Ekbladh and The 6 features for adults in Matthias Bruhn, Germany/Switzerland/Sweden, 2015, 1h12’ competition are the following: CAPTURE THE FLAG (ATRAPA LA BANDERA), IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD (KONO SEKAI NO Enrique Gato Borregàn, Spain, 2015, 1h36’ KATASUMI NI), Sunao Katabuchi, Japan, 2016, 2h06’

THE GIRL WITHOUT HANDS (LA JEUNE FILLE SANS MAINS), Sébastien Laudenbach, France, 2016, 1h16’ Along with the opening and closing

THE ANTHEM OF THE HEART films, four other features will be (KOKORO GA SAKEBITAGATTERUNDA), presented out of competition: Tatsuyuki Nagai, Japan, 2015, 1h59’ 25 APRIL, Leanne Pooley, New Zealand, 2015, 1h25’ SEOUL STATION (SEOULYEOK), Sang-ho Yeon, South Korea, 2015, 1h30’ THE LONGING OF MICHAEL DUDOK DE WIT, Thomas Doebele and Maarten Schmidt, WINDOW HORSES: THE POETIC The Netherlands, 2016, 54' PERSIAN EPIPHANY OF ROSIE MING, Ann Marie Fleming, Canada, 2016, 1h25’ NERDLAND, Chris Prynoski, USA, 2016, 1h25’

YOUR NAME (KIM NO NA WA), LE RÊVEUR ÉVEILLÉ, Jean-Paul Mathelier, France, 2015, 52’ Makoto Shinkai, Japan, 2016, 1h46’ RICHARD THE STORK, Toby Genkel and Reza Memari, 2017, Luxembourg/Belgium/Germany/Norway/USA, 1h03’ The 5 features in the international competition for a young audience In addition to the eighteen films in are the following: the Official Selection the Festival is RABBIT SCHOOL - GUARDIANS OF THE GOLDEN EGG presenting another four features: (DIE HÄSCHENSCHULE - JAGD NACH DEM GOLDENEN EI), Ute von Münchow-Pohl, Germany, 2017, 1h16’ BELLADONNA (KANASHIMI NO BERADONNA), Eiichi Yamamoto, Japan, 1973, 1h29’ SOLAN AND LUDVIG: THE BIG CHEESE RACE (SOLAN OG LUDVIG: HERFRA TIL FLÅKLYPA), SAUSAGE PARTY, Rasmus A. Sivertsen, Norway, 2015, 1h18’ Conrad Vernon, Greg Tiernan, USA, 2016, 1h29

SNOWTIME!, Jean-François Pouliot and REVENGEANCE, Bill Plympton, Jim Lujan, USA, 2016, 1h16’ François Brisson, Canada, 2015, 1h23’ THE RED TURTLE, Michael Dudok de Wit, France/Japan/Belgium, 2016, 1h20’ La guerre des Tuques © Park Circus

5 ANIMA 2017 Compet internationale © EMCA Angoulême

1.3. Short Films and Dance, contains a compilation of some of the latest animated music videos and commercials.

This year the Festival received 1,600 submissions Another programme in the international competition is coming from the four corners of the globe! made up of 9 short films for a young audience brought A record number of films for the selection together in the LA NOUBA DES ANIMAUX session and committee, who were given a tough task to choose judged by a jury of young reporters from «Ceci n’est pas un Buzz». around a hundred to be judged in the national and international competitions. And finally, the Anima public will be choosing the winning film from THE ANIMATED NIGHT from 34 films chosen especially for the occasion. The Festival is also adding The International Competition a few psychedelic films to the Night to hypnotize the audience and give their eyes a trippy treat! The programmes BEST OF SHORTS 1-2-3 AND 4 bring together films made by professional filmmakers. You’ll find some well known names like Alberto Vazquez The National Competition (co-director of the feature Psiconautas, the Forgotten Children); Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli (directors This year, the national compet’ is made up of five It’s Belgian of A Cat in Paris and Phantom Boy); Franck Dion (winner programmes. of the short film Cristal at last year’s Annecy festival for his shortfilm The Head Vanishes) along with some other IT’S BELGIAN 1 concentrates on films made by Belgian very promising talented filmmakers. professional filmmakers, while IT’S BELGIAN 2 presents work from Belgian students studying at the RITCS and La The programmes BEST OF SHORTS 4 AND 6 spotlights Cambre in Brussels, the HEAJ in Namur and the KASK in the best work from students studying animation in Ghent. The out of competition IT’S BELGIAN 3 completes 18 animation schools around the world including La these two programmes with a round-up of films made Poudrière, EMCA Angouleme and MoPA in France; the both by students and pros to reflect the Festival’s National Film and Television School and the Royal desire to present the intense and talented activity of our College of Art in London; the MOME in Budapest and the compatriots. Tokyo University of the Arts. IT’S BELGIAN 4 AND 5 are especially for the youngsters, The programmes BEST OF SHORTS 7 AND 8 (both out of with two compilations of films from two well known competition) complete this international competition. studios: La Boîte...Productions, makers of the Wind in The first is a selection of animated documentaries about the Reeds and The Scent of Carrots, and our friends from subjects ranging from the addiction to video games to Panique !, who are back again with adventures from immigration, while Best of Shorts 8, also entitled Watch Horse, Cowboy and Indian.

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Each year Anima embarks on the conquest of new and another conference will look at Cinderella the Cat, the horizons and new visions and is delighted this feature currently in production at MAD Entertainment in Naples. And, on Wednesday 1st March, the Florentine DJ Coqò year to be able to host two sun-filled countries: will get us up and swinging to some retro Italian hits. Portugal and Italy. We'll also be looking back over the career and work of a major artist from French JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAGUIONIE A leading figure in French animation, Jean-François Laguionie animation: Jean-François Laguionie. created his first short films after guidance from Paul Grimault. Supremely successful at festivals, he was awarded the Palme BLUE NOTES FROM PORTUGAL d’Or at Cannes for Rowing Across the Atlantic (1978). He has We’re paying tribute to Portuguese animation with two also made a number of features that were created in his own collections of short films: one by the great names of the art studio known as La Fabrique. His latest and highly personal such as Regina Pessoa, José Miguel Ribeiro and Abi Feijo, feature, Louise in Winter, will open the Festival this year and the other by emerging talents from the new generation. and we’ll also take advantage of this opportunity to show some of his shorts in The Dreams of Jean-François Laguionie ITALIAN MOODS programme, along with a documentary Le Rêveur éveillé, Focusing on the animation coming from the Italian peninsula, about the artist’s life and work. which is brimming over with astonishingly inventive creatives. Anima has tried to represent a glimpse of this through two The Festival’s regular partner, the Cinematek, will also be short film programmes: Gusto Italiano, dedicated to films presenting a retrospective of Laguionie’s features (Gwen, by professional Italian filmmakers, and a focus on student and the Book of Sand, A Monkey’s Tale, Black Mor’s Island work from the animation department of the Turin-based film and The Painting). school, Centro Sperimentale di Cinématografia. The Italian Stop Motion Wizards conference will spotlight the work of Virgilio Villoresi and Donato Di Carlo from studio Dadomani,

7 ANIMA 2017 4. PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS FUTURANIMA In addition to the many screening sessions, DISTRIBUTING AND PROMOTING YOUR ANIMATED SHORT FILM Anima is offering a varied range of conferences Targeted to filmmakers, this panel discussion with Annick Teninge, for the Futuranima professional meetings and director of La Poudrière, Anne-Françoise Reynders from the the opportunity to listen to filmmakers, writers Agence belge du court métrage and Arnaud Demuynck, producer and producers speak, often passionately, about at La Boîte,… Productions, will offer key advice to managing your productions. their work. FOCUS ON CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA Created in 1935, in Turin, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia is one of the oldest film schools in Europe. Chiara Magri, coordinator of the animation department, which was created in 2001 and has already produced many promising talents, will present the school and a selection of its student films. zombillenium © Belvision

8 ANIMA 2017 for Anima’s international competition, he will also use his visit to talk about the studio and some of its production secrets.

MEETING MIRAI MIZUE Journeying all the way from Japan, independent short filmmaker Mirai Mizue will talk about his delightfully abstract and hypnotic style, that he updates in each of his films (Jam, Tatamp, Modern N°2, And And, ...right up to his latest Age of Obscure). He’ll also be VJing during the Animated Night.

MEETING THOMAS ROLLUS, UBISOFT After studying Digital Arts at Saint-Luc in Brussels, Thomas Rollus is now an artistic director at Ubisoft, one of the leading video game developers in the world. He’ll be stopping by Anima from Ubisoft Montreal, to tell the audience about his career.

PITCH SESSIONS Spotlighting national production with a whole day given over to pitches. In the morning writers/illustrators will present their

GMR © Folivari projects to help find work partners, and in the afternoon it’ll be the turn of animation studios, situated in the north and south of ITALIAN STOP MOTION WIZARDS the country, to tell us about their past, present and future work. A meeting with two high-profile artists from Milan: independent filmmaker Virgilio Villoresi and Donato Di Carlo, from the Dadomani PLUGGED/UNPLUGGED EVENING studio, who both share an extremely original creative streak and A live performance, created in association with the SACD and a great flare for stop motion, which can be seen through their the production workshop from Liege, Camera-etc. commercials and music videos. Plugged: Six creatives will create an animation live. Unplugged: Six creatives will present extracts from films made MAKING OF CINDERELLA THE CAT with traditional techniques. This is a way to understand their Naples-based studio Mad Entertainment, which has already attracted creative worlds and find out more about the techniques used as attention with Alessandro Rak’s feature The Art of Happiness, is well as a wink (or a slight mock) at VR. currently hard at work on a new, partly crowd-funded feature Cinderella The Cat, directed by Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, EVENING MEETING: THE GIRL WITHOUT HANDS Alessandro Rak and Dario Sansone. The film’s producer and director A chat with the French filmmaker Sébastien Laudenbach about Ivan Cappiello will be visiting Anima to talk about it. his first feature that will take place straight after the screening of the film. MAKING OF THE BIG BAD FOX Didier Brunner (producer at Folivari), Patrick Imbert (film director) THE LONGING OF MICHAEL DUDOK DE WIT and Benjamin Renner (film director and graphic novel author) will be This documentary follows the famous Dutch animation filmmaker here to talk about the making of The Big Bad Fox and Other Stories, throughout the intensive 2-year period of the making of The adapted from the book of the same name, written and illustrated by Red Turtle, the first ever international co-production with the Benjamin Renner (A Mouse’s Tale, Ernest & Celestine...). legendary Ghibli Studio.

MAKING OF ZOMBILLENIUM VR, VIRTUAL REALITY: Zombillenium, inspired by Arthur de Pins’ three graphic novels, is HOW TO PRODUCE AN ANIMATED VR FILM? another much awaited adaptation to an animated feature. The author The MEDIA Creative Europe programme supports VR projects himself, who is also directing the film, will be at Anima to talk about and training. The Flanders and Wallonia-Brussels Creative Europe the different stages of this production, due for release in autumn. Media Desks are organizing a panel discussion to bring together professionals from the field to share their experiences in creating and producing animated VR films. The panel will include British MASTERCLASS: VISUAL STORYTELLING filmmaker Felix Massie, Joost Jordens and Philipp Maas (In the Writer-director Jericca Cleland honed her skills at Pixar working Air Is Christopher Gray, Rain or Shine…). with the likes of John Lasseter himself. Her work includes the design and staging of Finding Nemo, Toy Story 2 and Arthur WEBCREATION #6 SPECIAL Christmas for Sony/Aardman, and more recently Ballerina BOOKS AND VR: GET CONNECTED! with L’Atelier Animation. She also co-directed Ratchet & Clank Co-organized by the Pôle Écritures/Développement de la (based on the video game) and frequently makes presentations Maison des Auteurs and the PILEn, the goal of these meetings at schools and studios all over the world. She is currently writing is to regularly bring together professionals working in new and directing an animated feature with the Nørlum studio (co- writing to promote exchange, work collaborations and visibility producers of The Song of the Sea and Long Way North). In this of the work. This 6th meeting will be looking at the connections masterclass she will explain how images have the power to build between webcreation, games, books and virtual reality. story content and present techniques for structuring visuals to WRITING THE ANIMATED IMAGE, support cinematic narrative. PIANO WITH KASPAR JANCIS In association with the ASA (l’Association des Scénaristes de MEETING MARK SHAPIRO, LAIKA l’Audiovisuels), this will be an analytical session with Estonian Mark Shapiro is Communication Manager at LAIKA, the American filmmaker Kaspar Jancis who will take us through the scriptwriting studio specialized in stop motion. Apart from being a jury member process of his last short film Piano (in competition at Anima).

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To complement the numerous screening sessions of shorts and features and the varied programme of conferences, the Festival bill also contains some not-to-be-missed special events. Here are a few highlights: Rain Or Shine © Google Spotlight Stories

EXPERIENCE, BRUSSELS VIRTUAL REALITY FESTIVAL For the first time, Anima is associating with the Cinéma Galeries to host the 2nd EXPERIENCE Brussels Virtual Reality Festival. The organizers have concocted a selection of films using VR to tell a story which will give spectators a totally immersive and unique experience.

FILIP STERCKX AND ANTOON VERBEECK’S MAPPINGS Filip Sterckx is a filmmaker and Antoon Verbeeck is a gallerist, together they make up the Skullmapping collective and use motion capture and mapping to create playful and poetic visual installations. Anima will be exhibiting two of their pieces: Le Petit Chef (Skullmapping) and My Orca (Filip Sterckx).

FRANCS COLLEURS The Francs Colleurs is a project of urban stickers launched by the French collective 9e Concept that has brought together a community of artists to work on droplet shaped stickers that can be stuck together to create a visual patchwork. The pictures come to life through an app (available at Apple Store and Google Play) that lets you see them in augmented reality.

THE ANIMATED NIGHT The landmark event of the Festival, the Animated Night is divided into 3 sessions starting at nightfall till the early hours. There’ll be a perfect mix of saucy, spicy and super funny films, screened in a party atmosphere with even a few psychedelic touches! Between screenings, Japanese filmmaker Mirai Mizue, well-known for his colourful abstract animations, will be joining forces with the Belgian collective Meakusma to give us an explosive VJing set!

THE CARTOON D’OR The Cartoon d’Or is a prize given each year to the best European animated short chosen by a jury of industry professionals from a number of films that have won prizes at major animation festivals around Europe, including Anima. The prize is awarded

10 ANIMA 2017 by CARTOON the European animation film association, and WINNING FILMS supported by the MEDIA Creative Europe Programme. 5 of the After the closing ceremony, a screening to (re)discover all the films nominated in 2016 will be screened here including the winner, winning films in full. The very best of Anima 2017! Gabriel Harel’s Yul and the Snake. CLOSING EVENING THE CLOSING CEREMONY V-H-S (Visuel Hors Service) will be creating the atmosphere at the Suspense and excitement for this last session that will reveal the closing ceremony. The trio, made up of Vincent Evrard, Harold winners of Anima 2017! The ceremony will be followed by the Hémon and Simon Medard, all hailing from Liege, love recycling screening of the closing film, Ethel & Ernest by Roger Mainwood, and changing the use of old devices, slides and archive pictures who will be here to introduce it. and bringing them back to life by creating live animations. Their performance will be set to music by Psoman. Summer Camp Island © Cartoon Network Studios

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International Competition

RÉMI DURIN (BE) After graduating with a Master’s in Jury Awards

Animation from La Cambre in Brussels,  Grand Prix Anima 2017 for Best International Short Film, Rémi Durin associated with three other provided by the Brussels-Capital Region (2.500H) filmmaking colleagues from the same  Special Jury Award Anima 2017 school to create Enclume. Starting as  Anima 2017 Award for Best Student Short Film an artists’ collective, Enclume turned  Anima 2017 Award for Best Short Film for Children into an animation studio in 2013, with (youth-jury) productions like Le Parfum de la carotte (2013) and La Licorne (2016). Rémi Durin has been teaching at the Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard in Namur, since 2009. Audience Awards

ANNETTE SCHINDLER (CH)  Anima 2017 Audience Award for Best Animated Feature, Annette Schindler has established her provided by FedEx (voucher worth 2.500H) reputation as director, initiator and  Anima 2017 Audience Award for Best Animated Feature co-founder of several institutions and for Children festivals in Zwitserland and abroad. In  Anima 2017 Audience Award for Best Short Film 2012, Annette Schindler was appointed  Anima 2017 Audience Award for Short Film for Children as the artistic director of Fantoche,  Anima 2017 Animation Night Audience Award for Best in 2013 she became the festival Short Film director. As a member of numerous juries, committees and commissions, she became acquainted with Swiss and international filmmakers, artists and designers. In 2014 she Partner Awards was appointed a member of the Juries “Graduation Films”  BeTV Award for Best Animated Feature and “Off-Limits Short Films” of the Annecy festival. (5.000H for acquisition of broadcasting rights)  Creative Revelation Award MARK SHAPIRO (USA) (2.500H provided bu the Korean Cultural Centre) After graduating in the Arts at  Press Award for Best Short Film Colorado Springs University, Mark Shapiro’s eclectic marketing and communication career has covered the four corners of the USA in advertising, PR and movie production. In 2007, he joined LAIKA to look after the brand strategy of the company while also taking an active part in the making of the features.

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JEROEN JASPAERT (BE) Jeroen Jaspaert studied 2D Animation Jury Awards

at the Media and Design Academy in  Anima 2017 Award for Best Belgian Short Film, provided Genk and at Saint Martin’s College of by SABAM (2.500H) Art and Design in London, city where  Grand Prix Anima 2017 for Best Short of the Fédération he has been working since 2001. After Wallonie -Bruxelles, provided by the Fédération Wallonie making a number of commercials, he -Bruxelles (2.500H) went on to fiction in 2012, with the  Anima 2017 Author Award provided by SACD (2.500H) series internationally successful Bing and the short Stick Man.  Anima 2017 Best Belgian Student Short Film Award He is persuing his career as director and screenwriter, notably working at Magic Light Pictures. Partner Awards: CHRISTINE POLIS (BE) Graduated from ENSAV-La Cambre  BeTV Award (acquisition of broadcasting rights) in Brussels, Christine Polis has been  RTBF-La Trois Award (acquisition of broadcasting rights) working in European stop-motion  Cinergie Award (Electronic Press Kit) animation on such films as My Life as a Courgette, A Town Called Panic, Sunday Drive and The Sinners, as animator, props master, set designer, rigger and particularly in puppet making and maintenance. She is currently working with the crew looking after the puppets for Wes Anderson’s next feature.

LIGIA SOARE (RO) Ligia Soare has been working in the world of festivals as programme planner and coordinator for the past ten years. She is part of the founding team of Anim’Est, the Bucharest International Animation Film Festival, along with spending her time promoting Rumanian short films on the European market. She also works with cultural organizations, producers and distributors translating films and screenplays.

13 ANIMA 2017 8. ANIMA + A visit to the Anima Festival is so much more than watching a film. There’s also a load of activities for one and all. Cycle-in © Contrat de Quartier Maelbeek

WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS AND TEENS CYCLE-IN CINÉMA Youngsters from 5 to 12 can take part in daily initiation Anima is associating with Cycle-In Cinéma, Contrat de Quartier workshops focused on shapes and colours and supervised by a Maelbeek for a bike assisted outdoor screening! Twelve riders team of animation professionals from Zorobabel. will pedal to produce enough energy to work the projector. The Enclume studio from Brussels will be looking after the There’ll be a few extra bikes available but you can come along teenagers (from 12 years) for a one-week course with a with your own and join in. psychedelic theme where participants will create an animated film over the week. The Festival will also have a face painting stand for the kids on Please note: places are limited! Pancake day and at the weekends; Festival partner OUFTivi will be in residence in the Flagey hall to present free animations; CADAVRE EXQUIS some of the figurines used in the Rintje series will also be Supervised by the Enclume animation studio, visiting animators exhibited in the Flagey hall; a boutique full of cinema novelties to Anima (students, pros, guests) can flex their drawing muscles and goodies will be set up in the Festival entrance and special and take part in a communal Cadavre Exquis, which will be guests from the world over (USA, Japan, Estonia, France, Italy shown at the Animated Night. and the UK) will be talking about their films and meeting the Anima public... not to be missed! CONCERTS There’ll be concerts happening on the stage set up in Flagey’s main hall throughout the Festival. We look forward to welcoming the jazzy vibes of the Statief Trio; DJ Coqò and his Italian retro sounds; the psychedelic VJing of Mirai Mizue, accompanied by the Belgian collective Meakusma; the wild beats of the BRUZZ DJs and the animated set by the VHS collective orchestrated by Psoman.

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Feature Films: IVAN CAPPIELLO (IT), SUNAO KATABUCHI (J), Making of Cinderella The Cat Director - In This Corner of the World BENJAMIN RENNER (FR), JEAN- FRANÇOIS LAGUIONIE (FR) Making of Le Grand Méchant Renard Director - Louise en Hiver PATRICK IMBERT (FR), SÉBASTIEN LAUDENBACH (FR) Making of Le Grand Méchant Renard Director - La Jeune Fille sans mains DIDIER BRUNNER (FR), ROGER MAINWOOD (UK) Making of Le Grand Méchant Renard Director - Ethel & Ernest ARTHUR DE PINS (FR), TARO MAKI (J), Making of Zombillenium Producter - In This Corner of the World (Genco) JERICCA CLELAND (USA), Masterclass Visual Storytelling

Short Films: MARK SHAPIRO (USA), Meeting Mark Shapiro, studios LAIKA JAC CLINCH (UK) Director - The Alan Dimension (Best of Shorts 5) MIRAÏ MIZUE (J), Meeting Miraï Mizue / VJ-ing Nuit Animée ANETE MELECE (CH) Director - Analysis Paralysis (Best of Shorts 4) THOMAS ROLLUS (BE), Meeting Thomas Rollus, Ubisoft JONAS ODELL (SE) Director - Jag var en vinnare (Best of Shorts 7) FELIX MASSIE (UK), VR, Virtual Reality : How to produce JOANNA RYTEL (SE) an animated VR film ? Director - Moms on Fire (Nuit Animée) LUKE YOUNGMAN (UK), JELLE VAN MEERENDONK (NL) VR, Virtual Reality : How to produce Director - What Else (Best of Shorts 6) an animated VR film ?

FRANCK DION (F) KASPAR JANCIS (EE), Director - The Head Vanishes (Best of Shorts 4) Writing the Animated Image, Piano with Kaspar Jancis EUGÈNE BOITSOV (F) Director - La Table (Animated Night)

JOSE MIGUEL RIBEIRO (PT) Director - Estilhaços (Best of Shorts 2)

AGNÈS PATRON (F) Director - Chulyen, histoire de corbeau (Best of Shorts 1)

CERISE LOPEZ (F) Director - Chulyen, histoire de corbeau (Best of Shorts 1) Futuranima : ANNICK TENINGE (FR), Distributing and Promoting Your Animated Short Film

ARNAUD DEMUYNCK (FR), Distributing and Promoting Your Animated Short Film

CHIARA MAGRI (IT), Focus on Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

DONATO DI CARLO (IT), Italian stop motion wizards

VIRGILLIO VILLORESI (IT), Italian stop motion wizards

CARLO STELLA (IT), Making of Cinderella The Cat

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