ISABEL HERGUERA UNVEILS THE SECRETS OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF THE FILM SULTANA'S DREAM ON THE SECOND DAY OF ANIMAC
february 16th 2024
The director Toni García and the animator Lluís Viciana have given a workshop on diversity with the participation of Down Lleida, in which they have created an animated short that will be screened during the closing of the Exhibition
Producer Edmon Roch and screenwriter Yaiza Berrocal have presented Black Butterflies, an animated documentary that is in the production phase
The Leandre Cristòfol Room has been filled for the second session of the Incubator
Today the Animac Talent.cat award is presented to the best short film from animation schools and universities in the Catalan Countries
The director from San Sebastián and Honorary Prize winner of Animac 2024, Isabel Herguera, has captivated the audience where she has revealed the secrets of the creative process of the feature film The Dream of the sultana on the second day of Animac. Herguera, despite not being able to attend in person, connected live to offer the conference and recalled her time as director of the Exhibition, which she assured was “a great inspiration” for her career.
Herguera began by talking about her beginnings, when she dedicated herself to conceptual art, and about her jump into the world of animation. In this sense, she has stated that “in art the creative process is very important, even more than the final work”. This is where her work comes from, from some travel notebooks in which she drew every morning while she was in India. Sultana’s Dream, the most recent and ambitious work of the entertainer, is a film based on a classic story of feminist utopian literature written by the author Rokeya Hossain and published in 1905, which describes a country ruled by women.
The second day of Animac began with the Diversity Café, where the directors of films screened in this edition met to talk about diversity in animation. In the Espacio Animacrea, the workshops on animated techniques and the screenings of short and medium-length films at the Open Screen have been the protagonists.
At mid-morning, room 2 of La Llotja was filled with people to attend the second session of Incubator, Animac’s professional space in which six embryonic animation projects were presented and a panel of professionals from the animated film industry rate them. The Incubator started yesterday, where six other projects were presented.
In the afternoon, the workshop “Our world is much better thanks to diversity” took place, led by the director Toni García and the animator Lluís Viciana with the association Down Lleida. García, a pioneer in AR applications and animation with interactive tablets, together with Viciana have led this diverse and inclusive workshop, in which the final result will be a short animation made jointly with the boys and girls of Down Lleida, which will be It will premiere on Sunday, during the closing of the Exhibition.
For their part, Edmon Roch, producer and founder of Ikiru Films, and Yaiza Berrocal, screenwriter, have presented Black Butterflies, the film in the production phase directed by David Baute, which has been presented in different markets and international animation film laboratories, and which deals with the issue of climate migration.
In the afternoon, the Animac Talent.cat award is awarded to the best short film from animation schools and universities in the Catalan Countries. The jury is made up of the screenwriter and director Nuria G. Blanco, the comic artist and illustrator Fermín Solís and the historian, curator and professor at the U-tad, Samuel Viñolo. The winners will win an Xppen 1 Deco MW graphics tablet.
In addition, Gianmarco Serra, co-writer of the feature film Sultana’s Dream, and Diego Herguera, executive producer of the film, will attend the guided tour of the exhibition “Sultana’s Dream: Creative Process” at the Espai Cavallers in Lleida, together with curator Laura Ibáñez. Until February 28 you can visit the exhibition with a selection of original drawings and other materials from the film on which Isabel Herguera has worked for 15 years.
