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Rona Lui Rona Lui is a fine artist living in the Bay Area of California, who currently works at Pixar Animation Studios. Most recently, Rona worked on the animated blockbuster film, ‘Finding Dory,’ where her designs and drawings contributed to making one of the most beautiful, scenic and atmospheric productions of our time. Before Pixar, Rona spent several years as a character art Intern at Disney Consumer Products. During her presentation, young and old artists from the Caribbean will be able to hear Rona share her story of how her love of art took her to one of the most respected animation companies in the world. She will also discuss the importance of fine art in animation and its significance in the future of digital animation and games.
Booths and Displays, FRIDAY 28TH & Presentations & Demos SATURDAY 29TH Interactive Displays
RCS Robotics by Neverson Cheesman
How To Self-Publish Your Own Virtual & Augmented Reality Comic – The Celflux NIHERST Carigamers Experience Special Effects –Parallel 14 Heroes Foundation
Game Construction THE WIRE BEND – Caiphus Moore FOLKLORE THEATRE
Substance Designer -Andy Berahazar FRIDAY 28TH & Booths for Schools Day SATURDAY 29TH and Expo Day Exhibitors
Epically Maya Trinidad and Tobago Animation Network Banana Boat Guyana Animation Network Bim and Bam Suriname Animation Network Magnus the Mongoose Coded Arts Lab 206 Second Floor Studios UTT Student Booth
UTT Student Recruitment Booths for Schools Day and Expo Day Exhibitors Brad Schiff Animation Supervisor on The Boxtrolls and ParaNorman, Brad Schiff cut his teeth on a number of popular American television series including MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch, The PJs and Gary & Mike. In 2001 Brad brought home a Primetime Emmy® Award for “Outstanding Individual Achievement In Animation. In 2004, he animated on the first of what has turned out to be a series of Academy Award®-nominated features that include Corpse Bride, Coraline and Fantastic Mr. Fox. Most notably however Brad served as animation supervisor for ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ with a prestigious voice cast of Oscar-winning Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey and Oscar-nominated Ralph Fiennes and Rooney Mara. There will be a special screening of Kubo and the Two strings and a Q&A with Brad Schiff after. Nancy Phelps Nancy Denney-Phelps is an animation journalist, historian and music producer for animation, based in Gent, Belgium. She has been writing about animated films and festivals for many years, traveling all over the world. Nancy’s writings have appeared in publications such as CARTOON and ANIMATOON, as well as on her regular blog for AWN (Animation World Network). She is also a regular correspondent for ASIFA, San Francisco, and is a member of the ASIFA International Board of Directors. Nancy has served on numerous international animation festival juries, curated short film programmes and given lectures on various aspects of animation, especially on the importance of music. This will be her first visit to a Caribbean animation festival. Nancy will also be a jury member for Animae Caribe Animation Festival 2016. Caiphus Moore Caiphus is a Trinidadian American artist who currently resides in Oakland, California. He has spent most of his professional artistic career creating artwork for the video game industry and currently works as a Senior Artist for Electronic Arts (EA). A graduate of the Maryland Institute, College of Art, with a degree in Painting, Caiphus has always been inspired by the natural human form. He creates art on a variety of mediums; from traditional canvas to 3D sculpting. His main focus is to create a synergy between his love of fine art, gaming and multimedia.
Malika Zouhali-Worrall Malika Zouhali-Worrall is an award-winning director of British /Moroccan origin. ‘Thank You For Playing’ is a documentary that follows the parents of a child with cancer and how they used their programming skills to create a game that deals with the emotions and frustrations of the disease. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary and the Cinema Fairbindet Prize. Malika is a Chaz & Roger Ebert Directing Fellow and an alumnus of the Film Independent Documentary Lab, the Tribeca All Access program, the Firelight Producers Lab, and the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant. In 2012, Filmmaker Magazine named Malika as one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film. A screening of this documentary will be followed by a detailed Q&A with the director. Chloe Jarry Chloé Jarry joined Camera lucida as a new media producer in January 2011 in charge of cross-media development. She has produced three iPad apps mixing games, interactive animations and movie extracts from Camera lucida children’s movies: Le Carnaval des animaux, Les 4 saisons d’Antoine or the recent Pierre et le loup. She has also written and produced large transmedia projects like Missions Printemps – Die FruehlingsForscher, a French-German “web + mobile + TV” project that engages audiences to send pictures of spring events, based on scientific protocols (http:// missionsprintemps.arte.tv), or Théâtre sans animaux, that proposes a new way to experiment and enhance theater on the web (http://theatre-sans-animaux.fr). She is developing transmedia and cross-media projects with various broadcasters: Arte, FranceTélévisions, RadioFrance, Canal +.
Everard – Comic TT Against the backdrop of a widespread call for greater diversity in comic books and graphic novels, comes a new lead female character of color named Okira. Created by Trinidadian husband and wife team of Dixie Ann Archer-McBain and Everard J. McBain Jr. Okira is a young, kind-hearted and benevolent priestess who lives an ordinary and mundane life with the feeling that she is meant for something special. She finds out one day that her feeling is right and, with the help of a disjointed group, she must save her world from total destruction. The book examines themes that range from the possible link between science and spirituality and the next stage of man’s evolution. They currently have three books completed that are available on Amazon, Barns & Noble, DriveThruComics and Comixology.
Alain Bidard Received his Masters degree at SUPINFOCOM in France. In 1999, he directed “Pixies” which was nominated at Imagina Festival (Monaco) the Roubaix animation Festival (France) & the Anima Festival (Belgium). In 2001, he created Dream Heaven Pictures and directed many award-winning documentaries and short films. In 2010, he started working on his first feature film, “Battledream Chronicle.” It was completed in 2015.
Saïdou Bernabé and Yoane Pavadé Parellel 14 is the first Caribbean school where you can study innovative fields such as 3D animation cinema, visual effects and video games. Originally from Martinique, they have returned to the French territory after spending 15 years abroad working as 3D graphic designers for some of the largest international studios, involved in film projects which are known worldwide.
Today, Parallel 14 exists, teaching its first batch of students. The venture has attracted the support of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Martinique as well as the Martinique Region and Europe.
Dave King For over a decade, Dave’s Hell Weeks have become a tradition on the animation course at Volda University College in Norway. Feared and loved in equal measures, the four week session sees students working in a real world/studio-like environment of short deadlines and heavy workloads! Encompassing a broad range of essential subjects, including observation and acting, character construction and design, scripting, storyboarding, animatics and animation, Dave King, project leader at VUC and former animation director/scriptwriter for Cartoon Network, MTV Europe, BBC and more, will now bring a specially adapted version of this fearsome but fun course to the Animae Caribe Animation Festival! Get ready for Hell in the Caribbean! Anita Killi Anita Killi is a Norwegian director and writer, known for Angry Man (2009) which takes on the difficult topic of domestic violence. She explores the dynamics that lead to abuse in families, and throws a healing light on a situation that too often remains hidden in the shadows. Also know for The Hedge of Thorns (2002) which received numerous international awards and Daughter of the Sun (1996). The technique employed in most of her films is a combination of cut-outs and object animation using a multi-plane technique, i.e. animation filmed on several layers using glass panes. She studied at the National College of Art and Design and at the MRDH District College. Killi has established her own animation studio Trollfilm. Her work will be screened and followed by a discussion after. Andres Mand Andres Mänd (born in 1965 in Tallinn, Estonia). Associate professor and the head of Animation Department at Volda University College, Norway. He has studied stage management in Estonia, animation in Russia and art management in Finland. Worked for 13 years in the puppet film company “Nukufilm” in Estonia of which he still owns a share. Has animated more than 40 animated films including TV-commercials and music videos. Many of the films have been awarded in different animation film festivals around the world. Has directed 6 animated shorts, among others music video for Norwegian progrerock band Motorpsycho called “Manmower” which was announced as the best Norwegian music video in 1996. Executive producer of gratuation films produced at Volda University College 1998-2016 (more than 100 titles). Many VUC films have won international awards, among others «But Milk is Important» which got the Official Walt Disney Award for the best student film in Ottawa, Canada in 2012. One of the establishers of Animation Volda Festival (2006) and Norwegian Animation Centre (2012). Loves Trinidad and Tobago. Arne Humberset Arne Humberset, a native of Volda, Norway, is the Head of the International Office at Volda University College, a position he has held since 2013. Prior to this, he worked for ten years at at the University of Oslo in positions connected to international education. Humberset holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Dakota and an MPhil. in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Oslo.
Monday 24th – Saturday 29th October FESTIVALFESTIVAL SCHEDULE SCHEDULE Monday 24th – Saturday 29th October TIME MONDAY 24TH TUESDAY 25TH WEDNESDAY 26TH THURSDAY 27TH FRIDAY 28TH SATURDAY 29TH BOOTCAMP2 ALL THINGS ANIMATION & GAME ANIMATION – THOUGHTFUL BUSINESS - PITCHING DAY STUDENT DAY EXPO PUBLIC EXPO VENUE: APA Theatre 1 VENUE: APA VENUE: APA Theatre 1 VENUE: APA Theatre 1 VENUE : APA Theatre 1 VENUE : APA Theatre 1 AM TIME:9am – 4pm UTT INAUGURAL PRESENTATION Thank You For Playing – Malika Zouhalli-Worrall. FEATURE PRESENTATION FEATURE FEATURE Note: This day is for The LAIKA World - Brad Schiff, Discussion on games for social impact. The Art of Finding Dory – PRESENTATION PRESENTATION Booths and Displays Registered Animated Ideas Animation Supervisor on The Documentary based on a game called That Rona Liu is an artist first. She The LAIKA World The Art of Finding Presentations & Demos Boot Camp participants Boxtrolls and ParaNorman, and now, Dragon Cancer. describes how she went from a Brad Schiff Dory – Rona Liu Interactive Displays Kubo and the Two Strings’ only. ‘ . Break to play game simple artist to working on one of Special screening @ 7pm the most successful animated films 9:00am-10:00am 1:00pm – 2:00pm AC Projects Registration: 9:00am- 9:00am – 11:00am in history. How To Self-Publish Your 10:00am 9:00am-10:30am 9:00am - 10:30am AM BCAMP ORIENTATION TELLING THE STORY – Dave King Experimenting with Glass and Animation – Anita Discussions on Local Content Booths and Displays Own Comic – The Celflux Registration of Idea Encompassing a broad range of Killi. She explores the dynamics that lead to Creation Presentations & Demos Experience Registration of Group subjects, observation and acting, abuse in families, and throws a healing light on GM FILM TT Interactive Displays
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PRESENTER WORKSHOP TOPIC TIME* TIME* Room (session 1) (session 2) FEATURE: Laika World 9:00-10:00 BRAD SCHIFF FEATURE: Art of Finding Dory 1:00-2:00 Theatre 1 RONA LIU SCREENINGS SCREENINGS 10:00- 10:30 3:30-4:00 WIREBEND FOLKLORE Making Folklore Live 10:30- 11:00 THEATRE Raj Ramdass IT Clubs in Schools 11:00-11:30 Neverson Cheesman Robotics 11:30-12:30 Full Circle Animation 101 for CXC 2:30-3:30 CAPE Teachers Caiphus Moore Game construction 10:30-11:15 1:30- 2:15 Andy Berahazar Jr Texturing for Games using 11:15-12:00 2:15- 3:00 Room 202 Substance PRESENTER WORKSHOP TOPIC TIME* TIME* Room (session 1) (session 2) Parallel 14 Special Effects Today 10:30-11:15 1:30-2:15 Room 203
Celflux Experience HowToSelf-Publish Your 11:15-12:00 2:15- 3:00 Own Comic
Dave King Dave’s Halloween Hell 10:30-11:15 1:30-2:15 Room 205 Workshop (2D)
Music Students Music Technology 10:30-11:15 1:00-1:45 MTechLab
Tevonna McDavid Stop Motion 10:30-11:15 :30-2:15 National Museum Exhibit Room Special Thanks to the AC FAB Team Camille Selvon Abrahams – Founder and Creative Director Roxanne Colthrust – Director PR and Sponsorship Jessica Yawching – Festival Co-ordinator Ty Richardson – Animated Boot Camp Co-ordinator Johann Medford – Tech Consultant North 11 team - North Eleven - Samantha, Mathew, Sean, Reuel, Joel, Tevona, Brandon, Aleem, Jerron Meena Mahabir – Outreach Co-ordinator Sade Selvon Abrahams – Guest Co-ordinator Corisia Warner- Schools Day Co-ordinator Aelon Meyers - National Museum programmer Sherwin Marcelle - Submissions Co-ordinator Maria O’Brien – Cinema Nights Co-ordinator Brent Bachew – Transport Co-ordinator Sophia Cooper – Tobago Co-ordinator Andy Berahazar – Virtual Reality Consultant Aida Baptiste – Volunteer Co-ordinator Steff Kalloo – Guest Relations UTT Animation students (past and present) Team SIGHTFACTORY - Sean, Orin, Kadija, Janine. Cover charge: $20