LIAF 2017 - our 14th year and it was an absolute pleasure to be able to present to you so many wonderful animated films of very genre, technique and style, proving that independent animation worldwide is thriving. The imagination and energy that these animators and their small teams possess who have … [Read more...] about LIAF 2017: It’s a Wrap
Archives for 2017
LIAF presents: Space Films for Kids at Hyde Park PictureHouse, Leeds
This programme has been especially put together with our most special and youngest audience in mind, but the films can be enjoyed equally by people of all ages. At Hyde Park PictureHouse book tickets The Planets (Andy Martin, UK) Twelve planets, twelve adventures – all you ever need to know about … [Read more...] about LIAF presents: Space Films for Kids at Hyde Park PictureHouse, Leeds
LIAF 2017: Judges – The Inside Scoop
LIAF 2017: Judges – The Inside Scoop Each year we search for the finest panel of Judges: Educators; Independent Animators; Producers; affiliates of prominent organisations (all with animation at their core); Authors, Curators and more. All are experts in their field and all possess the ‘shining’ … [Read more...] about LIAF 2017: Judges – The Inside Scoop
LIAF 2017: And the winner is…
Best of the Fest Award: The Burden (Niki Lindroth Von Bahr, Sweden) A motel, a self-service restaurant, a call centre and a supermarket on the motorway are the setting for this apocalyptic musical. The songs tell of freedom, of the empty promises of the consumer world, and of the desire for an … [Read more...] about LIAF 2017: And the winner is…
LIAF 2017 Article: Animated Documentaries
International Competition Programme 8: Animated Documentaries screens at Barbican book tickets Animated documentaries, of course, have been around more or less since the dawn of cinema and animation itself. Winsor McCay’s 1914 classic The Sinking Of The Lusitania not only recreated a vividly, … [Read more...] about LIAF 2017 Article: Animated Documentaries
LIAF 2017 Article: Into the Dark
International Competition Programme 7: Into the Dark screens at Barbican book tickets Welcome to our annual ghoul-walk of fetid horrors and surging psyche damage. In many ways, this kind of stuff is one of the things that animation does best. The wider perception of cinematic animation is that it … [Read more...] about LIAF 2017 Article: Into the Dark
