For more than three decades Suzan Pitt has been an internationally renowned creator of beautiful, strange and fiercely original animation. Perhaps because her breakthrough film 'Asparagus' accompanied 'Eraserhead' on the midnight movie circuit, the work of Suzan Pitt has often been compared with … [Read more...] about The Wonderfully Strange Animation of Suzan Pitt – watch our Q&A now
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Academy Award shortlist for Animated Shorts
The shortlist for the Best Animated Shorts at the Academy Awards has been whittled down to ten films – three of which were featured at this year’s LIAF. 'Sunday' directed by Patrick Doyon of Canada screened at LIAF 2011 International Programme 4 (Patrick even came over to join us and introduce … [Read more...] about Academy Award shortlist for Animated Shorts
LIAF joins the NFTS Curriculum
We are extremely proud to announce an exciting collaboration with the UK’s most prestigious Film School - the National Film and Television School. Two very talented teams of students, lead by Directors Yousif Al-Khalifa and Gat Powell, will be producing trailers for LIAF 2012. The two teams are … [Read more...] about LIAF joins the NFTS Curriculum
LIAF 2011: Mop-up and Looking Forward
It's been a while! Team LIAF has been undercover for a few weeks now (as well as under film reels, digi beta tapes, spreadsheets, voting forms and all sorts of festival-related pieces of paper). We’ve just briefly surfaced from beneath a sea of freight boxes to let you know that the annual LIAF … [Read more...] about LIAF 2011: Mop-up and Looking Forward
And the winner is…
Last night's winners were announced at the sell-out grand finale of LIAF 2011 'Best of the Festival' and here they are... Best of the Festival ‘In A Pig’s Eye’ Atsushi Wada Highly Commended were 'White Hair' Yuka Takeda, 'Freud Fish & Butterfly' Haiyang Wang, 'Dove Sei, Amore Mio' Vejko … [Read more...] about And the winner is…
LIAF Animation Industry Event – Success!
The final installment of our Animation Industry Event was delivered yesterday and we have to conclude - what a success! Saint John Walker of Skillset chaired our first session of the day, 'Making Animation Work' which really was a quite revelatory look into some of the lesser known values of … [Read more...] about LIAF Animation Industry Event – Success!
