LIAF presents the UK Animation Industry Event at the University of East London (UEL), an all day event from 10am to 6:30pm – four panels giving insider access to some of the hot topics of the year plus a screening of the LIAF British showcase.
Animation doesn’t stand still; and debates and discussions with animators and creative experts are the best way to get in touch with what’s happening, whether it’s how Virtual Reality will impact on animation, or why the gender and diversity of the animation industry is rapidly changing, or why kids animation has a new lease of life. Come and find out.
We’ve gathered together some of the most passionate, honest and insightful experts from a wide range of different areas and backgrounds who are ready to cover all manner of vital topics to give you much food for thought.
For anyone currently working in the film and animation industry, thinking of working in the industry or just plain curious, these four talks are indispensable.
Add to this a very special enhanced screening of our annual British Showcase, 90 minutes of the best short animated films made in the last 12 months with several filmmakers in attendance, and you’ll get an exceptional opportunity to see what British animators are doing, how they’re doing it and how the art form is travelling.
Please note, there will be no tickets available on the day of the event. Advance booking only. One ticket gets you into all 4 talks PLUS the British Showcase screening.
This is the fifth of 5 Industry Event Sessions. The others are: Session 1: We Need to Talk about Skills – One Year On; Session 2: Is Everybody on Board? The Animated Women Panel; Session 3: The Kids are All right? Meet the Movers and Shakers Behind the Resurgence of Kids Animation on TV and Session 4: The 3 Rs – Animating in the New Spaces of VR, AR & XR.
With Special Thanks to the Arts Council England
And University of East London (UEL)
British Showcase + Animators in Attendance
Does anything define British Animation? The wealth of styles in this recent crop of films in the British Showcase would seem to deny any binding characteristic other than diversity. The breadth and mixture of animation techniques alone make this a rich and varied treat. They are adeptly put to use, each film projecting its individual vision, its own slice of life. This programme, made up of several short animated gems, chosen from a record number of entries, is an extremely encouraging window onto what looks like a very bright future for British animation. The funny films are genuinely funny, often with a subdued, understated, surprisingly sophisticated level of humour and the films that are endeavouring to examine topics with a deeper social import do so with a maturity and sensitivity that is equally rare.
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More films will be announced soon.
Where’s The Butter, Betty? (Will Anderson, UK)
I’m being serious now, Betty. Where IS the butter?
2018, 3min
One Liner (Matthew Lee, UK)
A has-been comedian attempts to make his comeback on board a cruise liner, but he’s only used to performing with a partner, and now he’s on stage alone.
2019, 7min
Grandad Was A Romantic (Maryam Mohajer, UK)
My grandad was a romantic man. He once saw a picture of my granny and realised she was the love of his life. So he decided to go and meet her.
2019, 5min
//-Sleeper (Jordan Buckner, UK)
In a dying industrial town a recluse wakes each day to a strange anomaly on the horizon.
2018, 7min
Margot (Sara Spanghagen, UK)
Margot worked as a nurse in Africa during 1958-1978. Her letters home to her parents tell the story of her life.
2019, 2min
Sent Away (Rosa Fisher, UK)
How to survive life in a boarding school.
2019, 6min
Ada (Dane Winn, UK)
Stranded in the Arctic with a dying man, a seamstress must find the strength to survive if she ever hopes to return home to her son.
2019, 11min
Heatwave (Fokion Xenos, UK)
In the midst of a searing heatwave two little children find a way to cool everyone down.
2019, 7min
In the Future (Phil Mulloy, UK)
The Future is bright and everyone is going to be happy.
2019, 5min
Queerer Than Thou (Kate Jessop, UK)
Who is the queerest of them all? This queer off will reveal all!
2019, 2min
Nigel (Natasza Cetner, UK)
A true story of Nigel the gannet who fell in love with a concrete statue.
2019, 9min
Better (Emily Downe, UK)
A fantasy jungle acts as a portal for idealised worlds to become external.
2019, 5min
2.3 x 2.6 x 3.2 (Jiaqi Wang, UK)
The certainty of hope and the uncertainty of disease.
2019, 4min
Exit (Luke Ramsay, UK)
How do you escape when the everyday is everything, and the way out is also the way in? Spooky!
2019, 3min
Ugly (Anna Ginsburg, UK)
A stunning collaboration with painter Melissa Kitty Jarram released for World Refugee Day 2019. Based on the poem narrated by Warsan Shire.
2019, 2min
No, I Don’t Want to Dance (Andrea Vinciguerra, UK)
These are dark times and the one critical issue yet to be addressed is how dangerous dancing can be.
2019, 3min