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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'...
Student filmmakers Esteban Bravo (left) and Beth David Courtesy of Esteban Bravo and Beth David
The Montreal International Animation Film Festival is one of the first festivals to confirm an exclusive screening of In a Heartbeat a short animation film in the student film competition taking the internet by storm going viral with over 5 million views in just a few days.
Two animation students at Ringling School of Art and Design in Florida were able to raise more...
The Montreal International Animation Film Festival (MIAFF), presented by Animaze, is holding a press conference at the McCord Museum to kick off the 4th edition of the festival. The official programming of the festival, its events, and this year’s invited guest speakers will be announced. Local Montreal filmmakers, the Red Cross, community associations, and entrepreneurs in film and virtual reality, will also be present.
What: MIAFF press conference to kick off ...
First Name
Last Name
Project Title
Gerald
Potterton
Heavy Metal
feature
Clive
Smith
Rock n' Rule
feature
Laurie
Nicola
Gordon
Zavaglia
Ryan's Renaissance
documentary
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Montreal International Animation FIlm Festival annual edition August 17 - 20 2017 (MIAFF) is thrilled to announce the official North American premiere of JUNOD to take place August 19th.
Junod produced by Shizuko Tsuya with direction and storyboards by Shinichiro Kimura, is also based on a true story, with a time traveling twist. In 1945, a Swiss doctor named Marcel Junod is appointed head of the Red Cross delegation to Japan. Shocked by the devastation he finds in Hiroshim...
