THE 28TH EDITION OF ANIMAC GETS MORE THAN 32,000 VIEWERS IN PERSON AND ONLINE
The International Animated Film Festival of Catalonia had 30,020 in-person visitors during the four days of the event and 2,717 views on Filmin from February 22 to March 3 The 29th edition of Animac will take place in Lleida from February 20 to 23, 2025 and the call to submit films will be open from […]
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THE 28TH EDITION OF ANIMAC CLOSES WITH RECORD ATTENDANCE AND EXCELLENT VALUATION FROM PROFESSIONALS OF THE ANIMATION INDUSTRY
The International Animated Film Festival of Catalonia welcomes more than 700 students, almost 100 more than last year, and more than 20 animation schools and universities from around the world within the framework of Animac Campus During four days, it has received 52 accredited professionals and more than 30,000 people This morning the Animac Tranqui […]
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JOSÉ LUIS ÁGREDA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF ROBOT DREAMS, TALKS ABOUT HIS WORK ON THE FILM AND BARRY J. C. PURVES SHARES HIS KNOWLEDGE IN STOP MOTION ANIMATION AT ANIMAC
Both conferences filled the Leandre Cristòfol Hall of La Llotja, on the third day of the Exhibition The animator Nuria G. Blanco has presented Silly Sundays, the preschool series that she created and directed for the Irish studio Cartoon Saloon, and Enrique García, from the ONCE Foundation, has tested concepts disability, accessibility and animation This […]
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THE SHORT FILM 'DEAD AIR' WINS THE ANIMAC TALENT.CAT AWARD
The Animac Talent.cat award has been won by the stop motion short film Dead Air (Spain, 2023), from the BAU school, Centro Universitario de Artes y Design from Barcelona, and directed by Ronja Ehlers, Lucía Artiles de Urioste, Melissa Fabienne Klein and Ines Filipa Palma Martins. The jury, made up of the screenwriter and director […]
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ISABEL HERGUERA UNVEILS THE SECRETS OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF THE FILM SULTANA'S DREAM ON THE SECOND DAY OF ANIMAC
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 […]
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THE MOST DIVERSE ANIMAC KICKS OFF WITH THE AWARD OF THE HONORARY AWARD TO ISABEL HERGUERA AND THE ANIMATION MASTER AWARD TO BARRY J. C. PURVES
The day began with the first session of Incubator, Animac’s professional space in which embryonic animation projects were presented to a panel of experts In the afternoon, the Women in the Animation Industry Association (MIA) presented the mentoring program MIANIMA and the feature film in production Rock Bottom, directed by María Trénor, a case of […]
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ANIMAC 2024 SCHOOL SESSIONS BEGIN IN LA LLOTJA AND CAIXAFORUM
More than 10,000 students from educational centers in Lleida city and region will participate in person in the scheduled screenings On Wednesday there will be a session in Tremp with a hundred schoolchildren at the La Lira Cultural Space The Animac School Sessions, the International Animated Film Festival of Catalonia, organized by the Lleida […]
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ANIMAC PREMIERES IN SPAIN THE FILM 'THE CONCIERGE' FROM THE JAPANESE STUDIO PRODUCTION I.G
Adaptation of the hit manga The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store by Tsuchika Nishimura, the feature film is directed by Yoshimi Itazu The film is part of Animac Teen, sessions designed for the young audience, between 12 and 18 years old, who will be able to enter for free to this screening and also to […]
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ANIMAC BRINGS TOGETHER THE EXTRAORDINARY YEAR OF CATALAN AND SPANISH ANIMATION
Donostia-born director Isabel Herguera, Honorary Award winner and to whom an exhibition will be dedicated, and José Luis Ágreda, art director of Robot Dreams, a film nominated for this year’s Oscars, will visit the Festival. British creator Barry J. C. Purves will receive the Animation Master Award and will share with the public the themes […]
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ANIMAC 'DIVERSITY', THE MOST DIVERSE AND ACCESSIBLE EDITION
Sign language in Catalan is introduced in different conferences and work is being done with the ONCE Foundation to subtitle a session for deaf people Relaxed sessions adapted for the public with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have been scheduled and diversity will be addressed from different aspects The Down Lleida Foundation will participate in a […]
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INTERVIEW WITH BARRY PURVES
British animator Barry J. C. Purves (UK, 1955) has received the Animac 2024 Animation Master Award for being a master in every sense of the word, a benchmark for others for his extraordinary skill in the subject he teaches, animation. Oscar and BAFTA nominated director, animator and screenwriter who combines, with mastery and deep knowledge, […]
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LEVEL ANNECY, WITH JOSÉ LUIS FARIAS
José Luis Farias is the Video Games coordinator at MIFA-Annecy, within the new AR and Video Games section of the Annecy Festival, an essential “leg” in the most important animation event in the world. The section is born with the intention of creating and strengthening links between the animation and the video game industries. If […]
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INTERVIEW WITH ISABEL HERGUERA
Isabel Herguera, visual artist, director and animation producer from San Sebastian, will receive the Animac 2024 Honorary Award, the first Spaniard to be awarded this award. From San Sebastián, Herguera, who directed Animac from 2003 to 2011, talks about her cinema and her experience at the festival. Animac will dedicate a retrospective to Isabel Herguera […]
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WE WANT DIVERSITY AND WE WANT IT NOW
The animation of films, series and video games is not only an extraordinary creative territory, but, like all art, it also has great educational and exemplary potential as a social engineer. When we see that animated films and series normalize a gay wedding (Steven Universe), a racialized princess (Tiana and the Frog), a trans protagonist […]
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SCOTT PILGRIM: 20 YEARS OF HAPPY PILGRIMAGE
The character Scott Pilgrim, who turns 20 this year, has enjoyed a long and fruitful pilgrimage, as befits his surname, from his birth in the form of a graphic novel to his latest successful animated series released by Netflix. His creator, the Canadian Bryan Lee O’Malley, was born in 1979 in London, Ontario. After studying […]
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