Category: Festivals

• MAF 2018: Short Films 1

  

  I am so glad that I have managed to visit the Manchester Animation Festival again this year after being unable to go last year. This is a fantastic festival showcasing and celebrating all things animation with panels, Q&A’s and screenings over the three days that can certainly get your creative juices flowing. Over the next…

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  April 10, 2019

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• MAF 2018: Virtual Reality

  

  This was a wonderful edition to the Manchester Animation Festival with a setup of four VR Headsets for us to see each of the films by the proper “in the world” style of the films. And they also had a great range of VR Films to experience and see which was great.   .This film…

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  March 13, 2019

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• MAF 2018: Classic Filmmakers

  

  I am so glad that I have managed to visit the Manchester Animation Festival again this year after being unable to go last year. This is a fantastic festival showcasing and celebrating all things animation with panels, Q&A’s and screenings over the three days that can certainly get your creative juices flowing. Over the next…

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  March 6, 2019

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  13th, 14th, 15th, 2018, 40 years of barry purves, animation, animator, bagpuss, barry purves, childrens tv, danger mouse, daniel postgate, director, dr chris pallant, fellowship award, festival, illustrator, industry, interviews, ivor the engine, journeys, lecture, loaf, maf, maf2018, manchester, manchester animation festival, mrs pingwings entertainment, november, oliver postgate, panel talks, panels, production, puppets, show, smallfilms, smallfilms on the big screen, smallfilms stories, stop motion, stop motion animation, stories, studio, studios, tchaikovsky, tchaikovsky an elegy, the clangers, the pingwings, tickets, tips and tricks, work, work environment

• MAF 2018: ‘Making Of’ Panel Talks

  

  I wanted to do a collective piece on all the ‘Making Of’ panel talks that were a part of the Manchester Animation Festival 2018, bringing together all the information and skills that went into creating each of these wonderful films seen above.   Becca’s Bunch The image of Becca’s Bunch caught my eye immediately when…

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  February 9, 2019

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• Tito and the Birds (Bitar, Catoto & Steinberg, 2018)

  Tito e os Pássaros (original title) > Date Seen: 13th November 2018 < -Spoilers Alert-   This was one of a few feature film debuts that were screened during the Manchester Animation Festival 2018, however in this films case I went in blind as I knew nothing about the film prior to entering the cinema…

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  February 3, 2019

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• MAF 2018: Commissioned Films

  

  I am so glad that I have managed to visit the Manchester Animation Festival again this year after being unable to go last year. This is a fantastic festival showcasing and celebrating all things animation with panels, Q&A’s and screenings over the three days that can certainly get your creative juices flowing. Over the next…

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  January 31, 2019

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  #TakeOnHistory, 2018, absolute volga, adidas x parley, adina e, adina e: i couldn’t help myself, animation, awards, britt raes, buck, chris ullens, colorscope: black, conan o’brien, conan o’brien discusses “we’re going to be friends” by the white stripes, conception: catie + jen, constantin, daniela sherer, drew roper, elliot dear, festival, foulkes, golden wolf, guilherme marcondes, guto terni, hooray for reading, how to makes music for advertising, i couldn’t help myself, imaginary friend society “what is an MRI?”, jaimeen desai, joy and heron, katy wang, kyra, kyra & constantin, lang zullen we lezen, love is blind, mark of a free society, mary anning: the girl who helped discover dinosaurs, matt abbiss, mette ilene holmriis, moth studio, my daddy’s stinky dancing pants, nat geo icon spot, orange is the new black: unravelled, psyop, rituparna sarkar, robert grieves, run for the oceans, run for the oceans: adidas x parley, sky sports: golf, smith, smith & foulkes, studio panda, sunshine, take on history, the evolution of animal genitalia, the fearless are here, the supporting act, the white stripes, toto bona lokua: ma mama, turned away, we’re going to be friends, what is an MRI?, yoni goodman, špela čadež

• Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires (Mort, 2018)

  > Date Seen: 13th November 2018 < -Spoilers Alert-   This film was another we viewed before being part of a Q&A session with the director in Manchester Animation Festival 2018. I personally have been looking forward to this film since I learnt about Mike More and his Chuck Steel short at the last Manchester…

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  January 27, 2019

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• MAF 2018: Q&As

  

  I am so glad that I have managed to visit the Manchester Animation Festival again this year after being unable to go last year. This is a fantastic festival showcasing and celebrating all things animation with panels, Q&A’s and screenings over the three days that can certainly get your creative juices flowing. Over the next…

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  January 23, 2019

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• MAF 2018: Panel Talks

  

  I am so glad that I have managed to visit the Manchester Animation Festival again this year after being unable to go last year. This is a fantastic festival showcasing and celebrating all things animation with panels, Q&A’s and screenings over the three days that can certainly get your creative juices flowing. Over the next…

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  December 5, 2018

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• Ce Magnifique Gâteau! (De Swaef & James Roels, 2018)

  This Magnificent Cake! > Date Seen: 13th November 2018 < -Spoilers Alert- This is the first in a series of special Film Reviews as part of the Manchester Animation Festival 2018 that I visited last week, Stay tuned for more on this wonderful festival. When I first saw that this film was on at Manchester…

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  November 19, 2018

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