This was such a beautiful city. And the festival was good too. http://anifest.cz/2013/history/11th-anifest/
Very friendly and hospitable and a great line up of speakers, including Barry Purves and Ian Mackinnon http://www.mackinnonandsaunders.com/
A Traditional Christmas at Small Birds Singing was screening as part of a British Puppet Panorama, curated by Paul Wells.
Puppets made by Mackinnon & Saunders
There was also wonderful exhibition of Jiri Trinka’s puppets and storyboards in the local museum.
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Excellent festival as always http://www.animatedexeter.co.uk/.
Highlight was a workshop with Wendy Froud http://realmoffroud.blogspot.co.uk/
and of course watching Hinterland screening.
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In January, Hinterland travelled to Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, to take part in the Greenflicks strand of Flickerfest International Short Film Festival http://www.flickerfest.com.au/home.aspx. Here’s the programme of films it was screening with:
http://www.flickerfest.com.au/programme_detail.aspx?e=15201
It was subsequently invited by Gus Berger of Red Hot Shorts in Melbourne http://redhotshorts.com.au/
to take part in a special screening of environmentally focussed short films as part of the Sustainable Living Festival (at Ceres Arts Park).
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Hinterland had four screenings at Anchorage Film Festival in early December. I would love to see the Northern Lights!
http://anchorage.festivalgenius.com/2011/films/hinterland_lindamccarthy_anchorage2011
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Hinterland screened in Animated Worlds at Bristol Encounters on Wednesday November 16 and Friday 18th.
Once again this was a very enjoyable festival. http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/
My highlights included:
John Kricfalusi talking about his work, in particular “Ren & Stimpy”. http://johnkstuff.blogspot.co.uk/
Shorts2Feature – Director Carol Morley and Producer Cairo Cannon talked about their two new features Edge and Dreams of a Life.
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The Grand Easter Egg Hunt was an official selection for the 17th annual Cucalorus Film Festival, Nov 10-13 in Wilmington, NC http://www.cucalorus.org/
If I hadn’t been at BAF, I might have gone to this festival. They were very keen for film makers to attend and were even giving funds for travel.
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Bradford Animation Festival -8-12th November
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/bradfordanimationfestival
Linda and Steve in foyer of National Media Museum. All the yellow posters with Steven’s drawings looked fabulous and behind us our festival Ident and other shorts screened on a continuous loop. Also live Twitter and photo feed screens.
Very nice to see the Ident on such a massive screen. To maintain quality, we supplied 4 GB version of the 45 sec film to BAF.
Hinterland screened in Panorama 2 on Wednesday and Friday.
Details of all the Shorts which screened at BAF can be seen on http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/BradfordAnimationFestival/whatson.aspx
Steven signs his new book, The Coffee Table Book of Doom alongside the miniature puppet of himself made by Linda McCarthy.
BAF was excellent, as usual, with many interesting programmes.
Steve Henderson captured a couple of these highlights in his
informative and entertaining articles in Skwigley Magazine.
http://www.skwigly.co.uk/fraser-maclean-setting-the-scene-book-review-and-interview/
http://www.skwigly.co.uk/the-last-belle-and-neil-boyle/
Kath Shackleton from Animated Yorkshire http://www.animatedyorkshire.co.uk/
invited me to take part in the Tenacity and Talent Networking Event
alongside five other animators – Tim Searle, Mole Hill, David Bunting,
Matt Howarth and Rob Millington. This event is summarized
in Kath’s blog http://tenacityandtalent.blogspot.com/
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Hinterland’s other festivals in October which I couldn’t attend were
Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival – Oct 21-23rd
http://www.stopmotionmontreal.com/Festival.html
Flip International Animation Festival – 28-30th Oct
http://www.flipfestival.co.uk/
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Raindance Film Festival
26th September-7thOctober http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/festival
Hinterland Screened in Shorts Programme 3: Animated Displays.
A good excuse for another visit to London. Played to a packed audience at The Apollo, Picadilly.
http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/shorts-programmes-2011
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London International Animation Festival
26th August-4th September 2011 http://www.liaf.org.uk/
Hinterland Screened in the British Showcase.
I always enjoy attending LIAF, but unfortunately could only manage
an overnight visit to attend the British Panorama. The Barbican was this year’s venue.
http://www.liaf.org.uk/2011/07/british-showcase-15/
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