5 dazzling animated shorts for young children and families of all ages. Here you will meet charismatic characters embarking on all sorts of wondrous and exciting adventures in a series of stunning visuals mixed with captivating storylines, showing that animation is the best tool to transform the … [Read more...] about LIAF presents: Animated Shorts for Kids 3-15 year-olds at Deer Shed Festival, Baldersby Park, Yorkshire
2022
LIAF presents: Best of LIAF 2025 at Ypsilanti Independent Film Festival, Michigan, USA
This programme is a snapshot of LIAF 2025 - 10 short films that promise to inspire, delight and challenge the notion that animation is merely for the 3D CGI blockbuster genre or cute cartoons for kids. Independent animation is an art form that continues to thrive and develop as a breathtaking medley … [Read more...] about LIAF presents: Best of LIAF 2025 at Ypsilanti Independent Film Festival, Michigan, USA
LIAF presents: 13 Wonderful Animated Shorts for 3 – 12 year-olds at The Garden Cinema
Like childhood, animation is full of wonder and simple pleasures. This carefully chosen programme for our littlest and most special audience contains 10 of the best, wonderful short animated films, full of joy, from all around the world. There’ll be talking animals, seriously fun adventures and … [Read more...] about LIAF presents: 13 Wonderful Animated Shorts for 3 – 12 year-olds at The Garden Cinema
LIAF 2025: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION PROGRAMME 6 – STOP MOTION PANORAMA(15)
Since the dawn of cinema puppet animation has provided some of the most mesmerising films ever made and puppet animators have been among the most revered. Breathing a kind of life into inanimate puppets is a very special form of magic and this programme showcases the continuing vibrancy of this … [Read more...] about LIAF 2025: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION PROGRAMME 6 – STOP MOTION PANORAMA(15)
LIAF 2025: INDUSTRY EVENT 3 MOVING STORIES – ANIMATED STORYTELLING THAT SUCCEEDS
It's said that anyone can come up with ideas, but what makes a unique new idea succeed? How do you convince commissioners, heads of department, clients, even rights holders to trust you to create amazing animated work, whether it’s a short commercial or an animated series? In this panel discussion … [Read more...] about LIAF 2025: INDUSTRY EVENT 3 MOVING STORIES – ANIMATED STORYTELLING THAT SUCCEEDS
LIAF 2025: INDUSTRY EVENT 2 ARE WE OK? – ANIMATORS ON MENTAL HEALTH
Animation has the ability to describe and portray internal states and emotions. It's often said we are experiencing huge rises of mental health issues particularly in young people, but also the social instability of working in the creative industries themselves can take its toll with precarity of … [Read more...] about LIAF 2025: INDUSTRY EVENT 2 ARE WE OK? – ANIMATORS ON MENTAL HEALTH
