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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

Is there a better artform than animation for exploring, reimagining and redefining the environments in which we all must live, work and navigate? Put your hands back down – coming from us here at LIAF HQ it’s what you might call a ‘rhetorical question’. We already know the answer.  That … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: INTO THE DARK (and arguing with the ghost of Guy Debord)