Archives for 2023

Each year we search for the finest panel of judges: educators, independent animators, producers, authors, curators and more. All are experts in their field and all possess an informed and exploratory eye for excellence in the animation world. This year we were honoured to welcome a carefully … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: JUDGES’ AWARD STATEMENTS

Best Film of the Festival Award: 27 - Flóra Anna Buda Best British Film Award: Crab Day - Ross Stringer Best Abstract Film Award: Overheating - Jiin Chung, Lizzy Bovee, Yuna Tang & Nathan Yeom Best Sound Design Award: Misaligned - Michał Fojcik (Dir. Marta … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: AND THE WINNER IS…

MA Directing Animation students at the National Film & Television School have been the magicians behind our official festival trailers for the past 13 years! During that time, we've been delighted by hand-drawn, stop-motion, pixilation, claymation, puppet, … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: OFFICIAL TRAILER

I’m kickin’ myself! Whilst on the grand tour recently I’d run out of English language stuff to read (the hardcopy variant at least) and wound up purloining a glossy mag at the only café in Tallinn, Estonia that was open at the early hour my jetlagged senses were pointing me out the door to for … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: LONG SHORTS

Fair to say that people have been using the tools and methodologies of art as a platform for documentary making as long as they’ve been scratching images into rock walls. Cinema, one of humankind’s youngest artforms, was arguably delivered into the world as a documentary form when the Lumiere … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: ANIMATED DOCUMENTARIES

Who are all these people? They seem to be everywhere! Do you ever find yourself asking that question? I do – all the time! And I don’t really mean just the real people we all encounter everyday – they’re all real to one degree or another and although the weight of their reality on the gravity of … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: LOOKING FOR ANSWERS