WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE LIST OF WINNERS OF THE 2020 ANIMAZE FESTIVAL
BEST SHORT FILM:
LIONVERSE BY HAYDEN CHUN HEI MOK (HONG KONG)
SPECIAL MENTION
METRO6 BY GEOFF HECHT (USA)
SPECIAL MENTION
FREEZE FRAME BY SOETKIN VERSTEGEN (BELGIUM)
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Inc.com Magazine covers Animaze Animation Festival 2019
Disney Dominates a $250b Market But These Startups May Be the Future
Well, it turns out that the truly disruptive animation startups are popping up in unexpected places, like Malaysia, Latvia, and inside a much-loved studio that most industry observers have considered something of a dinosaur.
Based upon what I saw at Animaze Montreal Animation Film Festival, it's clear that the anim...
Animaze partial list of winners more Animaze 2019 winners to be announced Sept 13 2019
Short
Another World:
Hong Kong
Director:
Tommy Kai Chung Ng
writer: Polly Yeung
Special recognition
*Artistic Direction
Feature:
Upin & Ipin: Lone Gibbon Kris
Malaysia
* Script
Plastic Plastic Everywhere
Hong Kong
*Film that Matters award
Michelle Kuen Suet Fung
Check out “"Plastic, plastic, every where!&quo...
First Published Thursday, August 22, 2019 9:03PM EDT
"Fans of animation are in luck: next weekend, Montreal will be hosting the International Animation Film Festival.
The festival will feature outdoor screenings at Parc des Ameriques and indoor showings at Excentris.
Roughly 150 films from around the world will show off the newest technology in digital animation"
Christine Long, CTV Montreal
and the fuill program
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The Animaze Festival invites the media to their annual press conference TODAY at 11am at ESMA - Excentris for the launch of the 2019 edition of the festival which will take place from August 29th to September 1st.
During this press conference, Ms. Laurie Gordon will unveil the festival's programming as well as the names of special guests and jury members. Animaze will also unveil its official poster 2019.
Animaze has two locations for animation shows day and night. One, i...
Animaze is 5 years old!
Animaze: The Montreal International Animation Film Festival takes place August 16-19 with exciting outdoor screening nights, special singalong presentation of the iconic Yellow Submarine and a 48 hour animation contest!
This year’s 5th edition of the festival is packed with surprises for our guests and audiences in Montreal, starting with a VR open air presentation at St. Patrick's park in Gri...
We like to share and give the opportunity to our like minded partners and filmmakers to submit to Montreal International
Animation Film Festival.
Utilize the filmfestivals.com special discount waiver for a 20% discount for Animaze 2018. Good until next week!
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Montreal International Animation Film Festival is hot on the AFM trail. Director Laurie Gordon meeting exciting new partners for the 2018 Montreal International Animation FIlm Festival and co-production conference.
Montreal international co-pro conference in Montreal 2018 Working with Film commisions from Panama to Finland who are beginning brand new tax credit schemes.
Anni Wessman project leader of the West Finland Film Commission with Laurie Gordon director Montreal Internat...
Submit your film today on Film Freeway!
Montreal gets animated! We are going to AFM October 31- November 7 and we are actively seeking your animation film lineup at MIAFF 2018 and other film festivals around the globe.
We curate animation and VR technology for film festivals and have done so for Moscow International Film Festival, SMILE International Children and Youth Film Festival
and many more.
If you have an animation film series or movie in the works please please email laurie@a...
Alain Rondeau SODEC - Société de développement des entreprises culturelles, Paul Thinel of Canada Council, Pierina Corbo Telefilm Canada, Athena Georgaklis Nelvana Animation, Hughes Dufour Teletoon in attendance at Montreal International Animation Film Festival 2017. Moderated by festival director Laurie Gordon
Colin Rondeau - film director presents projection mapping and AR talk on the intricacies of mapping on large and small scale for cross platform applications
Virtu...
Simon Hultgren, Neil Bell, Martin Petrov, Alice Chen, Tsuya Shizuko, Laurie Gordon, Rei, Soumyaa Behrens, Catypa Plate
Best International Short Film
Ex aequo award to Meeting MacGuffin by Catya Plate (US) and Drifting Away by Cyprien Clement Delmas (Spain)
Best Canadian Short Film
Cigare by Tom Tassel (Canada)
Best Short Film: Student Film Contest
Nana by Alexandra Kellner (Canada)
With a special mention to In a ...
Stop motion "arts and crafts" animator Catya Plate talks to MIAFF festival director Laurie Gordon about her win and special mention of her
animated trilogy Meeting McGuffin.
Just coming to MIAFF 2017 from Holly shorts in Los Angeles Catya talks about her win
and travels on the exciting festival circuit, and plans upcoming for her animated trilogy.
Interview with Catya Plate against the beautiful city skyline of Montreal at the steps of Moyse Hall, the ...
Elated Soumyaa Behrens with her family- winner of Best Feature MIAFF 2017
Soumyaa Behrens is an educator at the prestigeous San Francisco Documentary Film Institute.
Also an actress and filmmaker Behrens is the recipient of the Best Feature MIAFF 2017.
Here is her interview with MIAFF director about channeling the spirit of Abina a slave who fought a legal case as a slave
against her "owner". The case was dug up more than 100 years later in library archives....
Women in Animation: Panel & Screening | VR | Closing Ceremony
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VR | Junod | Experimental Shorts
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Trevor Getz and Liz Clark’s graphic novel about a young woman who fights for her freedom in the courts of Africa’s gold coast in the late 1800’s comes to life in an animated feature produced by the Documentary Film Institute at San Francisco State University. The novel won the James Harvey Robinson prize in 2014.
Abina and the Important Men by Soumyaa Behrens | US | 1 h | 2016
A graphic hi...
Pitch session | VR | Bendy & the Ink Machine
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Don't miss the
MIAFF 2017: Today Is The Day
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Feature Films
Release from Heaven
by Ali Noori Oskouci
Islamic Republic of Iran
01:16:00
In a war torn country, a female writer and teacher has to accompany two of her students on a life changing journey.
Ali Noori Oskouci was born in 1981, Tehran, Iran. He is a graduate of art who has started his art career from high school as a photographer, cartoonist and film maker. He then majored in cinema and tried different genres including fiction, documentary and animation. Along with f...
SHORT FILMS
Fashion Cave!
by Tristian Goik
USA
0:59
Join Scarlet Envy and Daphne Sumtimez on an urban adventure of massive magnitude and dripping danger.
No artist biography.
Departure
by Aoífe Doyle
Ireland
9:15
An Irish grandmothers unexpected departure from her lonely life.
Aoífe Doyle is the creative director and co-founder of Pink Kong Studios. The studio’s new short film “Departure” is funded by the Irish Film Board and RTÉ...
Virtual Reality (VR) 360º Films
Garden
by Daniel & David Holechek
USA
2:08
A young woman browsing through an art gallery makes a connection and unlocks a stunning world inside of her imagination.
Garden blends fully stereoscopic live action and CG environments to create an imaginative and immersive VR short film experience. The film explores what it means to connect to a piece of art, in a way that that is unique to the virtual reality medium.
The Holech...
The Schedule
FILM LISTINGS
SHORTS
EXPERIMENTAL
FEATURES
VIRTUAL REALITY 360º
JUNOD
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILMS
PANELS
NETWORKING INDUSTRY & PITCH
Virtual Reality Installations
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A debut short film from the UK premiers at the Montreal International Animation Film Festival and credits the festival’s contribution as final push that led to the film’s completion. BBC England has helped the UK short film go viral after featuring the young filmmaker in one of their daily news shows.
Ms. Ruth Coggins, a first time filmmaker created a film about her great g...
Still from A War to End All Wars directed by UK animator Ruth Coggins
The Montreal International Animation FIlm Festival is proving itself to be the hippest animation festival. Discovering the film on social media, MIAFF will deliver a world premiere of UK film A War to End ALl Wars by director Ruth Coggins. Festival director Laurie Gordon recalls noticing a few stills and trailer of the animated film she first noticed on a Twitter feed a few months ago. She recalls, " It wasn'...
