the BAF 2009 brochure

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welcome
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We ♥ our sponsors...
Welcome to BAF09
We are delighted that Bradford College
and The WOW Academy are once again the
principal sponsors of BAF and we thank
them for their continued generous support.
Highlights of this year’s programme include
an insight into the making of Coraline from
LAIKA’s Claire Jennings (Coraline producer)
and Brian Van’t Hul (Coraline visual effects
supervisor), the presentation of the Lifetime
Achievement Award to Tony Fish and
retrospectives of the work of Priit Pärn and
Jonas Odell. In addition we have screenings
of Up (3D) and Fantastic Mr Fox, as well as a
collection of Joanna Quinn’s favourite films
and a retrospective of Dutch animation.
BAF Game, in strong partnership with the
University of Bradford and Game Republic,
returns with a packed programme including
Ian Livingstone from Eidos, Sony London
Studios and a Pixelh8 performance. This
popular strand explores the connections
between video games, animation and film.
I hope you enjoy this year’s festival.
Deb Singleton
Festival Director
Special Guests
Claire Jennings
Brian Van’t Hul
Tony Fish
Jonas Odell
Priit Pärn
Joanna Quinn
Special Events
Opening Night Film
Dutch Animation Retrospective
Animated Shakespeare
+ Midsummer Night’s Dream
Pat Raine Webb’s Favourite Films
Music Video / Sound Panel
Animation and the Marshall Plan
Animated Yorkshire Screening
Thursday Speed Dating
Barcamp
Toonhead Challenge
Friday Night Party
Hallmark: When Magic Really
Happens
Workshops
Films in Competition
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Character Design
Scriptwriting
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BAF09 Ident
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BAF Awards + Closing Night Party
Jury
Professional Films
Student Films
Short, Short Films
Music Videos
Commercials
TV Series
Films for Children
Films by Young Animators
Screenings
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Panorama 1
Panorama 2
Panorama 3
Animated Features
IMAX: A Christmas Carol 3D
TV Heaven
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BAF Game
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BAF Kids
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Thanks
Index
Museum Info
Venues
Diary
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Claire Jennings - The Making of Coraline
Thursday 12 November 2.00pm, Pictureville Cinema
claire jennings
Claire Jennings, producer of Coraline and President
of Entertainment at Laika Inc, introduces a
screening of Coraline, together with a behind the
scenes look at how Coraline was made. Claire started at LAIKA as the Producer for Coraline
before being named President of Entertainment
in 2009.
Before coming to LAIKA in Portland, she was
named “Producer of the Year for Animated
Theatrical Motion Pictures,” along with Nick
Park, by the Producers Guild of America for the
Oscar and BAFTA Award-winning feature film
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit
(2005). The award joined a long list of honors
garnered throughout a career as an independent
and studio producer,development and production
executive, and project originator, making her one
of the most respected names in the animation
industry. In addition to Wallace and Gromit, she
has produced multiple award-winning animated
shorts and television series including the Oscar
and BAFTA Award-winning animated short Father
and Daughter, the Oscar-nominated and BAFTA
Award-winning animated short The Canterbury
Tales, and the Oscar and BAFTA nominated short
film Jolly Roger. She also developed and produced
the BBC animated television series The Big Knights
alongside its two directors, produced the BBC
series Stressed Eric for Absolutely Productions, and
was executive producer of HIT Entertainment’s
British children’s TV series Pingu.
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Coraline (3D)
Dir. Henry Selick, USA, 2009, 100 mins, (PG)
Voices: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer
Saunders, Dawn French
Coraline moves with her dull, workaholic
parents to a new home. Exploring the
old house, she finds a hidden door into a
parallel world where life is brighter, prettier
and much more interesting...
A grim little fairytale based on the Hugo
Award-winning book by cult Brit graphic
novelist Neil Gaiman.
“Believable and fantastical, this is one of
the best children’s films in years and Selick’s
finest...better even than The Nightmare
Before Christmas.” – Helen O’Hara, Empire
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Brian Van’t Hul - Coraline
& The Visual Effects Challenges
Saturday 14 November 1.00pm,
Pictureville Cinema
Brian Van’t Hul, Visual Effects Supervisor at
Laika, will present an overview of the stereo
and visual effects challenges of shooting the
stopmotion feature Coraline. Coraline is the
first major stop-motion animated feature to be
shot in stereoscopic 3D. A graduate of Montana State University’s Film,
Television and Photography Department, Brian
Van’t Hul has consistently followed a passion
for cinematography, art, engineering and
story-telling. He has had the opportunity to
do various jobs in the film industry, covering
miniature, live action and digital lighting, visual
effects supervising, location plate photography
and second unit directing. Before supervising
the visual effects on Coraline (2009), he worked
on Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Forrest
Gump (1994), Disclosure (1994), Contact (1997),
all three Lord of the Rings films (2001, 2002,
2003), Master and Commander: The Far Side of
the World (2003), I Robot (2004), The Legend of
Zorro (2005) and King Kong (2005), for which he
won a BAFTA Film Award (Best Achievement in
Special Visual Effects) and also an Oscar for Best
Achievement in Visual Effects.
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peter and the wolf
Henry’s cat
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Tony Fish
– Lifetime Achievement Award 09
Saturday 14 November 10.45am,
Pictureville Cinema
We are delighted to welcome renowned editor,
Tony Fish, to this year’s festival, as we present
retrospectives of his work and present him
with the BAF09 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Tony has worked with a plethora of awardwinning directors, including Bob Godfrey,
Geoff Dunbar, Erica Russell, Marjut Rimminen,
Gaelle Denis and Suzie Templeton and his body
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of work is extensive. Our three retrospectives
can only, therefore, give a representation of the
breadth and depth of his work. An extensive
filmography follows the details of our retrospective
programmes, in recognition of the films we were
unable to screen.
Tony studied photography & film at Bournemouth
& Poole College of Art. His graduation film “DAI
SUE BECCA” (Live Action) was selected by the
British Film Institute as support film in the Italian
season at the National Film Theatre in 1967. He
entered the industry in 1965 as runner/assistant
editor and in 1966 joined the legendary Bob
Godfrey and editor Peter Hearn in Wardour Street,
Peter left for Canada in 1969. The studio worked
on projects for Robert Brownjohn, Gerald Scarfe,
Polanski and John and Yoko etc. In 1972 Tony
became a freelance editor, before joining forces
once again with Peter Hearn to form Picturehead
Productions in 1979, Peter left Picturehead in 1993.
Tony’s editing work has covered Animation, Live
Action, Commercials, TV, and Documentaries. He
is currently Visiting Tutor at The Royal College of
Art, Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University
of Westminster, a role he previously held at the
National Film & Television School.
Retrospective Programme 1
Thursday 12 November 10.15am
Cubby Broccoli Cinema (89mins)
Tom Tom Club: Pleasure of Love
Cucumber Studios (5mins)
Some Protection Marjut Rimminen (9mins)
Dream Doll Bob Godfrey (12mins)
Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms
Bill Mather (5mins)
The Stain Marjut Rimminen (11mins)
Fish Never Sleep Gaelle Denis (6mins)
Stressed Karen Kelly (7mins)
Rupert and The Frog Song
Paul McCartney/Geoff Dunbar (13mins)
Learned By Heart (Chap 1)
Marjut Rimminen/Paivi Takala (6mins)
The Silence Halo Productions (10mins)
Roobarb Bob Godfrey (5mins)
+ intro and award presentation
Saturday 14 November 10.45am
Pictureville Cinema (96mins)
City Paradise Gaelle Denis (6mins)
Many Happy Returns Marjut Rimminen (8mins)
Tuesday Paul McCartney/ Geoff Dunbar (15mins)
Yesterday I Think Becalelis Brodskis (6mins)
Pink Floyd: The Wall
(5 animated sequences by Gerald Scarfe, from the
feature film directed by Alan Parker) (15mins)
Commercials (6mins)
Donald Fagan: New Frontiers
Cucumber Studios (5mins)
Home Road Movies Robert Bradbrook (12mins)
Picnic Paul Vester (2mins)
Stanley Suzie Templeton (7mins)
Great (Clip), Bob Godfrey (5mins)
Triangle Erica Russel (9mins)
Saturday 14 November 1.00pm
Cubby Broccoli Cinema (82mins)
Urpo & Turpo Marjot Rimminen (8mins)
Beatrix Potter: Pigling Bland TVC (30mins)
Henry’s Cat: The New President
Bob Godfrey (15mins)
Peter and the Wolf Suzie Templeton (29mins)
Dog and The Cat With Hands are screening in
Pat Raine Webb’s Favourite Films programme on
Saturday 14 November at 3.30pm
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Many happy returns
the stain
tony fish filmography
Christoph Steger
2008 JEFFERY & THE DINOSAURS
Suzie Templeton
2007 PETER & THE WOLF 30 mins
Premiered Royal Albert Hall 2007 to live orchestra.
2008. Winner Academy Oscar. Plus 2007 winner
Grand Prix Annecy, Golden Rose, Special prize
Krok, Pulcinella Award. 2008 Best TV Special at the
British Animation awards. Special jury award Lucca.
2001 DOG
2001 Winner at Edinburgh, & National Film Board
of Canada. 2002 Winner of BAFTA plus at Brooklyn,
Siena, Estonia, Drvio, Melbourne, British Animation
Awards, Hiroshima, Holland.
1999 STANLEY
2000 Prizes in Italy, Germany, Nashville, Spain,
Malaga, Ann Arbor, Short Film Berlin, Fort
Lauderdale, 2001 USA, Golden Sun USA 2002
Malaga.
Marjut Rimminen & Paivi Takala
2007 LEARNED BY HEART 30 mins
Awards: Best Animation Tamoere Short Film
Festival
Marjut Rimminen
MANY HAPPY RETURNS Grand Prix Tampere
Int: Film Festival. Jury Special Prize Krakov Int:
Short Film Festival. 2nd Prize Los Angeles World
Animation Celebration, plus many other Festival
awards.
THE STAIN Special Jury Prize at Hiroshima Int:
Animation Festival. Special Jury Prize at San
Francisco Int: Film Festival.
URPO & TURPO For Finnish Film Foundation, won a
Finish Laatutuki Award and The Bronze Elephant at
Hyderabat Children’s Film Festival, India.
SOME PROTECTION Finalist Best Film & Best
Soundtrack, British Animation Awards.
Becalelis Brodskis
2005 YESTERDAY I THINK
selected for Sundance Film, Festival.
THE FATHER THE RAM MY DAD AND ME
Katerina Athanasopoulou
2005 SWEET SALT
Ali Taylor
2004 PULENG
Gaelle Denis
2004 CITY OF PARADISE Nominated for a BAFTA
2003 FISH NEVER SLEEP Winner BAFTA plus other awards.
Robert Bradbrook
2000-2001 HOME ROAD MOVIES Nominated for BAFTA
Short Animation.Numerous prizes in Festivals throughout
the world. List available on request.
Robert Morgan
2001 THE CAT WITH HANDS 2nd prize LA World Animation
Best Film under 5 minutes. London Science Fiction Festival
Public Prize. Malaga Film Festival Public Prize
Kirsten Kelly
2001 THE HOUND & THE FURY
Paul McCartney MPL COMMUNICATIONS LTD
& Geoff Dunbar
1998-2000 TUESDAY Nominated for BAFTA 2001 Best
Short Animated Film. & British Film Animation Awards.
1996 TROPIC ISLAND HUM
1994 RUPERT & THE FROG SONG won BAFTA Best Short
Animated Film.
NEW MILLENNIUM EXPERIENCE CO.
1998 VOICES OF PROMISE Tony Fish Director/Editor
VOICES OF PROMISE Promo
1999 OUR TOWN STORY (dance) Show video
TVC For Frederick Warne & Co.
BEATRIX POTTER Series 9x30 minutes films. Picture and
sound editing on various episodes.
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STEVE BELL
A JOURNALISTS TALE / BEAKS TO THE GRINDSTONE
SEND IN THE CLOWNS
PINK FLOYD
WISH YOU WERE HERE World Tour concert
Film Sequences. THE WALL World Tour Concert
Film Sequences. Both directed by Gerald Scarfe.
Also animated sequences in feature film THE
WALL Directed by Alan Parker. PROS & CONS OF
HITCHIKING Concert Film Sequences for Tour
MANFRED MANN
Various European Concert Tour Film Sequences.
JOHN &YOKO ONO
ERECTION (Time lapse of Tower Block Being Built)
RECORD PROMOS
HOT CHOCOLATE
TOM TOM CLUB
Dire Straits BROTHERS IN ARMS
Donald Fagan NEW FRONTIERS
Chas Jankel QUESTIONAIRE
Paul McCartney WE ALL STAND TOGETHER
Pink Floyd ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL part 2
(Education)
BOB GODFREY FILMS
CHILDRENS SERIES & PRODUCTIONS
JACKSON FIVE animated song sections
ROOBARB 29X5 minute episodes
SKYLARK 30x5 minute episodes
HENRY’S CAT series included award winner
THE NEW PRESIDENT/VALENTINES DAY A cable
Award for Best International Children’s Programmed
Special 1994. Also Society of Film and Television Arts
Best Film.
AWARD WINNING SHORT FILMS FOR BOB GODFREY
HENRY 9 TIL 5, Winner BAFTA Academy Awards
KAMA SUTRA RIDES AGAIN, Nominated American
Academy Oscar
GREAT, Winner American Academy Oscar & Winner 11
BAFTA Academy Award.
DREAM DOLL Nominated for American Academy
Oscar & BAFTA Academy Awards.
SMALL TALK, Nominated for American Academy
Oscar. BIO WOMAN, Nominated for BAFTA Academy
Award. INSTANT SEX, Ottawa Special Jury Prize
HALO PRODUCTION
SILENCE, Gold Hugo Chicago Int: Film Festival.
Hiroshima Special Prize. 1st Prize Oslo. 1st Prize
Melbourne and various others. Short-listed for
Academy Awards 1999.
KAREN KELLY
1994 STRESSED Won European Media Cartoon D/
Or. Best Animation in the British Animation Awards.
BAFTA Film Nomination. 1994.
ERICA RUSSEL
FEET OF SONG, Won the BFI Best Animated Film.
1996 TRIANGLE, Nominated for Academy Oscar. Won
best Animation in the Animation Awards.
PAUL VESTER
PICNIC, Speedy Cartoons 1987 1st prize Ottawa
1988, 1st prize Films under 5 mins, Los Angeles
Animation Celebration 1989 , Special Jury Prize San
Francisco 1989
COMMERCIALS
BRITISH RAIL/HERSHEY’S/SEVEN UP/WALKERS
CRISPS/HEINEKEN/CARLING BLACK LABEL/
WEETABIX/VITALITE/COLGATE/ROYAL BANK
OF SCOTLAND/COSMOPOLITAN/PENQUIN/
McKEWANS/BABYCHAM/
TOSHIBA/NOKIA/AMERICAN EXPRESS etc.
DAI SUE BECCA
Directed Edited Photographed by Tony Fish for
Graduation film from Bournemouth Poole College of
Art, selected by British Film Institute as support film
in the Italian Season at the N.F.T. 1967
Screening
Friday 13 November 6.30pm, Pictureville Cinema
Revolver
Never like the first time!
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LIES
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Retrospective
Erasure: Come Up And See Me (03:27)
We are delighted
to welcome Jonas
Odell to BAF
to introduce a
retrospective of his
work and take part
in a Q & A session.
Jonas Odell is partner and co-founder of
Filmtecknarna. Jonas specializes in making films
mixing live action and various mixed media
animation techniques. He has also scripted, coscripted and written the music to a number of the
studio’s productions. Early films that Jonas directed
include “Revolver” (1993) and “Family and Friends”
(2002). His short film “Never Like The First Time! ”
was awarded with the Golden Bear for best short film
in the Berlin Film Festival 2006. His short “Lies” was
awarded as Best international short at the Sundance
film festival 2009. The past years Jonas has also been
a much sought after director for music videos and his
portfolio includes videos for such artists as Erasure,
Goldfrapp, U2 and Franz Ferdinand, for which he
received an award for breakthrough video of the year
at the MTV Music Awards 2004 as well as a Grammy
nomination. Jonas also directs a number of television
commercials each year.
Lies (14:00)
Three perfectly true stories about lies.
Goldfrapp: Strict Machine (03:40)
Revolver (7:00)
A film about life, death, the passing of
time and the occasional fish.
Franz Ferdinand: Take Me Out (04:00)
Family and friends (12:00)
A film about aunts, uncles and blind
divers eating bananas underwater.
Mad Action: Smile (04:02)
Feeder: Feeling A Moment (04:09)
Never like the first time! (14:00)
Four people get to tell the story of their
first time.
Audio Bully’s: Shoot You Down (03:38)
Erasure: Come Up And See Me
Family and friends
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1895
Karl and Marilyn
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Retrospective 1 – Wednesday 11 November 2.00pm, Pictureville Cinema
Retrospective 2 – Thursday 12 November 8.00pm, Pictureville Cinema
In Conversation with Chris Robinson – Friday 13 Nov, Pictureville Cinema
We are delighted to welcome Priit Pärn to
BAF09. During the festival we are screening two
retrospectives of Priit’s work. He will also be
taking part in a screentalk with Chris Robinson,
Artistic Director of the Ottawa International
Animation Festival as they discuss his career and
screen his latest film Life Without Gabriella Ferri.
Born in 1946 in Tallinn, Priit graduated from the
Department of Biology of University of Tartu in
1970 and afterwards worked at the Botanical
Garden of Tallinn as a plant ecologist. He has been
active as a caricaturist and illustrator since the end
of the 1960s and has done more and more work as
a freelance graphic artist since the early 1980s.
From 1976 to 1994 he worked as an art director
and animated film director at the Joonisfilm
animated film department of Tallinnfilm Studio.
Since 1994 he has worked at Eesti Joonisfilm
Studio. Priit has made 11 animated films of
duration up to 45 minutes, as well as a host
of short films, commercials, etc., for which he
received numerous awards and prizes.
Priit has also worked as a teacher over the
past 18 years. He has taught at film schools in
Finland, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Spain,
Belgium, Holland, France and England and also
held workshops in Australia and Canada. From
1994 to 2007 Pärn was the artistic director of the
Animation Department of the Turku Art Academy
in Finland and from 2006 head of the animation
department in Estonian Art Academy.
Retrospective 1
AND PLAYS TRICKS (1978)
SOME EXERCISES IN PREPARATION
OF AN INDEPENDENT LIFE (1980)
THE TRIANGLE (1982)
Does Julia love Victor? Or does Edouard love
Julia? It is difficult to say. In any case, Julia
loves to cook. Victor and Edouard, though, love
to eat. This starting point is entirely adequate
for a dramatic triangle.
TIME OUT (1984)
The hero of this film, which has earned many
awards, is a small cat with a long striped tail.
The little animal bustles about the room doing
morning house chores. He is already busy with
the next one before he has properly completed
the previous one. He becomes hopelessly
confused in his daily routine. Time transforms
radically and assumes fantastic proportions.
BREAKFAST ON THE GRASS (1987)
A film about Anna, Berta, Georg and Edouard,
who realize their idea in spite of humiliating
difficulties.
HOTEL E (1992)
In every wall that separates, one can find a
door. A door which connects. Victor finds such
a door. Faceless, nameless Victor is prepared
to go. Yet every departure is also an arrival.
Every arrival, however, is not a return.
Retrospective 2
1895 (co-director Janno Põldma) (1995)
The animated cartoon “1895” is dedicated to
the centennial of cinema. “1895” is a picture
about the life of brothers Auguste and Louis
Lumière. The cartoon acquaints the public
with so far unknown biographical facts and
events from the life of the two celebrated
brothers who have immortalized their names
as inventors of cinematography. The picture is
an illusion. Is illusion truth? This assertion and
the subsequent question gave the authors of
this cartoon the rights to declare that namely
their version of the life of brothers Lumière
and the birth of cinema was the most original
and unique of all.
Night of the Carrots (1998)
It is highly unlikely that anybody has any
premonition of the approaching catastrophe.
Least of all Diego, a man whose name can be
read from his face. But suddenly your shoes
are filled with water. The click of Julia’s heels
echoes in the corridor. Underground no longer
speaks in a whisper. This is how it usually
begins… And at some point, the only hope that
remains is - the Night of the Carrots.
Karl and Marilyn (2003)
Karl is tired of the heavy burden of fame that
oppresses him and he decides to liberate himself from it. He returns to life among so called
ordinary people, after which he crosses paths
with fame-seeking Marilyn. Ordinary Karl is
the force that turns Marilyn into an idol of the
masses. But not for long…
Screentalk with
Life Without Gabriella Ferri
(co-director Olga Pärn) (2008)
A dramatic story about love, locked doors, a
faceless thief, a wounded stork, a lost laptop and
virtual prostitutes, the O’Key sisters... There is no
Gabriella Ferri, but there is almost happy end.
Chris Robinson
Book Signing
Chris will be signing
copies of his book Estonian
Animation: Between
Genius and Utter Illiteracy
in the museum foyer on
Friday 13 Nov at 4.00pm.
Priit Pärn
DVD Signing
Priit will be signing
copies of his DVD in the
museum foyer on Friday 13
November at 4.00pm.
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Joanna Quinn’s Favourite Films
Friday 13 November 4.30pm, Pictureville Cinema
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The British animator Joanna Quinn has
established a considerable international
reputation for her work, winning over 80 awards
including two EMMYs and five BAFTAs. In an age
of computerised 3D animation, her distinctive
hand-drawn style, combined with acute
observational skills and an incisive wit, marks
her out as a unique filmic artist.
Joanna joins us to introduce a collection of some
of her favourite films:
Two Sisters Caroline Leaf , 1991, 10mins 26secs
Hill Farm Mark Baker, 1988, 18mins
Your Face Bill Plympton, 1987 3mins 4secs
Who I am and What I Want
David Shrigley/Chris Shepard, 2005, 7mins 23secs
Reci, Reci, Reci Michaela Pavlatova, 1991, 8mins
Alternative Fringe Candy Guard, 1993, 5mins
Un Jour, Marie Paccou 1997, 4mins 18secs
Flux, Christopher Hinton 2002, 7mins 40secs
Egoli Karen Kelly, 1989, 8’
The Man With The Beautiful Eyes
Jonathan Hodgson, 1998, 5mins 34secs
Swinging the Lambeth Walk
Len Lye, 1940, 3mins 27secs
King-Size Canary Tex Avery, 1947, 8mins
Total screening time: 89mins
Joanna Quinn: Drawings that Move
Your opportunity to take part*
Life drawing with Joanna Quinn and Beryl
Friday 29 January 2010 7-9pm
The Art of Joanna Quinn:
Drawings that Move – Gallery Two
In this first-ever gallery retrospective of Joanna’s
work, audiences will be taken on a journey
starting with the artist’s early drawings and
animations to some of her very latest, gaining
an insight into the creative and business
processes involved in running a successful
animation studio along the way.
Over the past 25 years Joanna Quinn’s love
for drawing and movement has been the
driving force behind a beautifully distinctive
body of animation – all hand drawn on paper
and cels. It includes her signature character;
Welsh housewife, Beryl; an Oscar-nominated
and BAFTA and Emmy-winning film based on
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; and the Charmin
Bears, whose adverts for toilet paper are
recognised all over the globe.
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Learn from Joanna Quinn herself as she leads
this adults-only life drawing class set against
the backdrop of her exhibition Drawings that
Move: The Art of Joanna Quinn. Come along
and spend the evening in Joanna’s company as
she talks you through the art of drawing, and
offers her own insights into the work on the
surrounding walls.
We’re looking for someone to volunteer as
the life model for this unique event. If you
are (or know) someone who encapsulates
the personality of Joanna’s infamous and
curvaceous creation Beryl, we’d love to hear
from you. Send an email, video, letter, photo,
drawing or anything else that explains why
you’d be the perfect model.
Email
fozia.bano@nationalmediamuseum.org.uk
or by post to: Cultural Events Organiser,
National Media Museum, Bradford , BD1 1NQ
*All entries will be considered. Closing date for
entries: 04 Dec 2009. Successful entrants will be
contacted. You will need to be available for the life
drawing class on Friday 29 January 2010 from 5pm
– 9pm. Your participation will be within an enclosed
gallery space and any recorded material/photography
from the night will be used on the museum website
and blog to demonstrate the variety of events we
hold here. The National Media Museum will not share
your details with any third party
Wednesday 11 November
Reception 7.30pm in the Museum Foyer
Screening 8.00pm, Pictureville Cinema
opening night
Mary and Max
Dir. Adam Elliot
Australia, 80 mins, 12A adv
Voice cast: Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman,
Barry Humphries, Eric Bana.
Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, this clayography feature tells
of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary
Dinkle (Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year-old living in the suburbs of
Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz (Hoffman), a severely obese,
44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in the chaos
of New York City.
As Mary and Max chronicles Mary’s trip from adolescence to
adulthood, and Max’s passage from middle to old age, it explores
a bond that survives much more than the average friendship’s upsand-downs.
Like Elliot’s Oscar® winning animated short Harvie Crumpet, Mary
and Max is both hilarious and poignant as it takes us on a journey
that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism,
where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, sexual differences,
trust, copulating dogs, religious differences, agoraphobia and many
more of life’s surprises.
Print Source: Icon Entertainment International,
Solar House, 915 High Road, London, N12 8QJ
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Mette Peters, researcher and curator of the collections at the Netherlands Institute
for Animation Film (NIAF), introduces two programmes which give an enlightening
overview of Dutch animation from 1937 to 2008. Mette manages preservation
projects, film programmes and exhibitions. She has published widely on animation
and is co-author of the book Meestal in ‘t Verborgene: Animatiefilm in Nederland
1940-1945 (Mostly Hidden Away: Animation Film in The Netherlands 1940-1945).
jute: queen
van den vos reynaerde
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Dutch Animation: Retrospective I
Friday 13 November 12noon, Pictureville Cinema
The Philips Broadcast 1938
George Pal, 1937 5mins, prod. Pal Studio
Commercial for Philips radio in different musical
settings.
Van Den Vos Reynaerde
Egbert van Putten, 1943, 13mins
prod. Nederland Film
Rhinoceros Jodocus plays a leading part in this
propaganda film, based on the medieval fable
of Reynaert the Fox. This film propagates antiSemitic ideas.
The Golden Fish
Harold Mack, 1952, 10mins, prod. Marten Toonder
In the spring of his life Li Pai asks the Golden Fish
in Lake Kou Nen how to live. “Look around and
see the answer”, says the Golden Fish. Li Pai looks
around, but does not see the answer.
Piccolo, Saxo and Company
Joop Geesink, 1960, 15mins, prod. Dollywood
Philips informational film. Somewhere in a valley,
the string instruments are living happy and
contended. One day a youthful offspring of this
finely-strung tribe discovers that his race is not
alone in the world.
Brainwash
Ronald Bijlsma, 1973, 8mins
prod. Ria Bijlsma-Nanninga
The lives and thoughts of the inhabitants of a
whole town are controlled by two men. To their
annoyance they discover a happy musician
somewhere in town. He will have to be shaken
down into society and brainwashed like the rest.
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Anna and Bella
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Børge Ring, 1984, 7mins 30sec
prod. Cilia van Dijk Filmprodukties
Two elderly sisters spend an exciting evening
recalling old times, helped by a photograph
album and large quantities of red wine.
Jute: Queen
Gerrit van Dijk, 1978, 2mins 35sec
Caricature of a stammering and clumsy English
Queen Elizabeth, who makes a speech on the
occasion of the ‘the year anniversary of Northern
Ireland’ in which she duly emphasizes the English
soldiers’ sporting behaviour towards the IRA.
This film was part of the multidisciplinary art
project called ‘Jute’, in which artists responded
on political issues.
Touring Holland by Bicycle
Paul de Nooijer & Jerry Musser, 1981, 4mins
prod. Meerkat Productions
In a small room, against a backdrop of tulips and
windmills, four people move around a table at an
ever increasing speed.
Oh, What a Knight
Paul Driessen, 1982, 3mins
prod. Nico Crama
A short cartoon about a gallant knight who
braves many dangers to rescue a damsel in
distress. Will she realize who the real saviour is?
Sientje
car craze
a midsummer night’s dream
dutch animation 2
animated shakespeare
Dutch Animation: Retrospective 2
Saturday 14 November, 5.30pm Pictureville Cinema
Animated Shakespeare + Midsummer Night’s Dream
Wednesday 11 November, 3.30pm Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Sientje
Sen noci svatojanské
(A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Christa Moesker, 1997, 4mins 30sec
prod. Netherlands Institute for Animation Film
A little girl gets very upset after a quarrel with
her parents. What to do to get rid of your anger?
Naughty examples how to work off steam to
finally restore the peace with mum again.
T.R.A.N.S.I.T.
Piet Kroon, 1998, 12mins
prod. Cecile Wijne & Ian Harvey
The film presents a classic 1920’s love tragedy
as a puzzle for the audience to unravel. Based
on the beautiful art styles of the period, the film
evokes the grand lifestyle of the rich, travelling
around luxurious resorts and hotels.
Barcode
Adriaan Lokman 2001, 8mins
prod. il Luster Productions
A road movie through an abstract and virtual
world. Travelling over and through landscapes
the spectator is taken into a play of light and
shade.
Car Craze
Evert de Beijer, 2003, 12mins 30 sec
prod. CinéTé Filmproduktie
An environmental inspector gets stranded in a
forgotten oil town, dominated by monstrous
cars. His short stay in a motel doesn’t give him a
moment’s rest.
The Rise and Fall of the Legendary
Anglobilly Feverson
Rosto, 2001, 10mins, prod. Rosto Ad./Inc.
Méliès meets Kerouac in a cryptic road movie
through the clouds. Instead of a hole in the
head, Diddybob gets a story about a hole in the
sky; a legendary Anglobilly Feverson once flew
off to leave his cursed life behind and check the
other side.
The Order Electrus
Floris Kaaijk, 2005, 7mins 30sec
prod. AKV St. Joost Breda
Nature adapts, even to human actions that
seem to destroy everything. The amazing
power of evolution has given birth to a new
species of insect. Their ideal habitats are old
industrial locations. Some call them electrical
insects, others simply speak of a miraculous
phenomenon, or even better, a self-supporting
order: The Order Electrus.
The Swimming Lesson
Danny de Vent, 2008, 10mins
prod. Netherlands Institute for Animation Film/
Lumiére/Euroanima
The mother of four-year-old Jonas brings him to
his first swimming lesson. Jonas is scared and
wants to go home. While trying to escape, he
falls into the deep bath and nobody notices him.
While floating on his swimming wings he has to
try to rescue himself.
Czechoslovakia/1959/74 mins/Colour/35mm/
Dir: Jirí Trnka. With the voices of: Richard Burton,
Joss Ackland, Alec McOwen, Barbara Jefford.
Four years in the making, Jirí Trnka’s delightful
and faithful stop-motion puppet adaptation
of Shakespeare’s play won a distinction from
the Jury at Cannes. The texture, detail and wit
of its character and production designs are
a wondrous response to the emotions and
imagery evoked by Shakespeare’s language.
Armored Theseus and black-curled Demetrius
resemble Greek heroes lifted from a classical
frieze; Titania and the shape-shifting Oberon
and Puck might be extra-terrestrials; in Theseus’
exquisite Athenian palace, the rude mechanicals’
shambolic performance is pitted against rival
entertainments resembling fore-runners of
Cirque du Soleil. The forest – a riot of lilac,
green and midnight blue – is home to creatures
familiar and fantastical (acorns sprout arms
and legs to become bustling servants to the
fairy queen).
Trnka, dubbed ‘the Walt Disney of the East’,
never lip-synched his wooden puppets with
dialogue, preferring music to the spoken word.
The original version used only sparse Czech
narration by actor Rudolf Pellar, foregrounding
composer Václav Trojan’s classical themes, which
match the action’s changes of mood and tempo,
blending full orchestra, solo harpsichord and
other instruments (Lysander serenades Hermia
with his flute), boy choristers and solo voices.
The score and the fluidly graceful stop-motion
(equally impressive for humans and animals)
sometimes give the film the quality of a Dreamballet. The English soundtrack, added for UK
cinema release in 1961, features Richard Burton
as Narrator and snatches of Shakespearean
dialogue delivered by top English actors,
including Joss Ackland (Quince), Barbara Jefford
(Titania) and Alec McCowen (Bottom).
DANIEL ROSENTHAL, author of 100 Shakespeare
Films (BFI Publishing, 2007) will be giving an
illustrated lecture on animated Shakespeare
followed by the screening of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream.
Daniel Rosenthal, Book Signing
Daniel will be signing copies of his book
100 Shakespeare Films (BFI Publishing, 2007)
in the museum foyer on Wednesday 11
November at 5.30pm.
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Saturday 14 November 3.30pm, Picturevillle Cinema
Father and Daughter
pat raine webb
Pat Raine Webb
(1931-2008)
Pat Raine Webb was
involved with the Bradford
Animation Festival since
it began in 1993, advising
on programmes and
taking part in selection
panels, before becoming
chair of the international
jury. During those sixteen
years Pat shared with all
of us her enthusiasm and
passion for animation.
I first met Pat six years ago – it was my first
Bradford Animation Festival and I really had no
idea who anyone was or what to expect.
I was supposed to be looking after the jury, but
as the festival progressed it was quite clearly the
other way round. Pat was chair of the jury and
soon took me under her wing – introduced me
to the other jury members and guests and made
sure that I got a warm welcome to the industry
that played such an important part in her life.
From that point on we became firm friends –
meeting along with Margot to talk about ideas
for the following year’s festival, who we might
have on the jury and who would be good to have
as guests. Once the work was done, the three of
us would spend time talking about their love of
animation. Each November we looked forward
to seeing both Pat and Margot and knew that
we would be assured of an enjoyable time.
Pat had such passion and enthusiasm and was
such a warm and generous person – always
ready to help and give her time and support.
She was also a firm favourite with our young
festival volunteers (the BAFettes). One of Pat’s
many strengths was her ability to relate to
young people. She was a mentor to many and
offered support and encouragement to those
starting out in animation. My enduring memory
of Pat will be of her at last year’s festival party
dancing to YMCA and giving students who were
50 years younger a real run for their money.
I’m sure that I speak for everyone involved with
the festival, both past and present, in saying that
it was a great pleasure to have known Pat.
Deb Singleton, Festival Director
Margot Grimwood, Pat’s life partner has
chosen a selection of Pat’s favourite films:
The Big Snit, Richard Condie 9mins
The Cat With Hands
Robert Morgan, 3mins 30secs
The Cathedral Tomek Baginski, 7mins
The Queen’s Monastery Emma Calder, 6mins
Dog Suzie Templeton, 5mins 38secs
Hedgehog in the Fog
Yuri Norstein, 10mins 29secs
Hot Stuff Zlatko Grgic, 9mins
Once There Was A Dog Eduard Nazarov, 10mins
Screen Play Barry Purves, 11mins
Fishing With Spinoza
John Kenn Mortensen, 7mins 3secs
Father and Daughter
Michael Dudok de Wit, 8mins
BAF jury 2008
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Screen Play
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Music Video/Sound Panel
Thursday 12 November 5.30pm, Pictureville Cinema
music video/sound panel
Join our panel of music video/
sound experts as they explore the
relationship between animation,
sound design and music videos.
Chair: Paul Wells
Professor Paul Wells is Director of the Animation
Academy in the School of Art and Design at
Loughborough University, and has published
widely in the field of animation. He was also
series consultant for the BBC’s ‘Animation
Nation’ and writer and presenter of the award
winning radio series on comedy, ‘Laughing
Matters’.
Panel Members: Woof Wan-Bau, Johnny
Hardstaff, Tom Haines, Jonas Odell and
Steve Smith.
Woof Wan-Bau
Woof Wan-Bau is the alias of film and animation
director Joji Koyama. Featured in 2005’s Cannes
New Directors Showcase, the Creative Futures
Awards 2006 and the winner of the SHOTS New
Director Award 2008, Woof Wan-Bau continues
to develop his reputation as an innovative film
maker, and one of Britain’s brightest talents. After
graduating from Goldsmiths College in London,
he went on to direct a music video for ‘My Angel
Rocks Back and Forth’, for Four Tet. This led to
a Young Guns Award for Best Animated music
video and the Public Choice Award at the British
Animation Awards. He has since worked with the
likes of Coldcut, Mogwai, Matthew Herbert, The
Duke Spirit and Calvin Harris.
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Johnny Hardstaff
Jonas Odell
Johnny Hardstaff is a designer and director.
Represented by Ridley Scott Associates (London)
and Little Minx (Los Angeles), Hardstaff has
directed and designed innovative moving image
work across a broad spectrum of both commercial
and non-commercial strands of the visual arts.
Mass media clients include Radiohead, Sony,
Orange, Toshiba, Sony PlayStation and the BBC
amongst others. Amongst his most notable works
to date remain ‘History of Gaming’ and ‘Future of
Gaming’ (two politically provocative short films
designed to first engender then test corporate
patronage, now inducted into the National Film
Archive), the Radiohead film ‘Like Spinning Plates’
(long format two track experimental music video),
and increasingly a contemporary raft of innovative
and experimental design based commercials
(Sony / Toshiba / Orange / Asics / LG).
Jonas Odell is partner and co-founder of Filmtecknarna.
Jonas specializes in making films mixing live action
and various mixed media animation techniques. He
has also scripted, co-scripted and written the music to
a number of the studio’s productions. Early films that
Jonas directed include “Revolver” (1993) and “Family
and Friends” (2002). His short film “Never Like The
First Time! ” was awarded with the Golden Bear for
best short film in the Berlin Film Festival 2006. His
short “Lies” was awarded as Best international short
at the Sundance film festival 2009. The past years
Jonas has also been a much sought after director for
music videos and his portfolio includes videos for such
artists as Erasure, Goldfrapp, U2 and Franz Ferdinand,
for which he received an award for breakthrough video
of the year at the MTV Music Awards 2004 as well as
a Grammy nomination. Jonas also directs a number of
television commercials each year.
Tom Haines (of Brains and Hunch).
Since graduating as a composer from the Guildhall
School of music and drama in 2000 Tom has has
been composing and making music for Moving
Image and Theatre. Tom has been specialising in
making music and sound for animation. He has
written music and sound for animators and studios. In 2003 Tom set up music production company
Brains and Hunch with fellow composer Chris
Branch. Since then they have been composing and
producing music, foley and sound for Film, TV and
Animation from their London Studio. Tom is also
a founder member of music ensembles Quartet
Electronische and The London Snorkelling Team as
well as an associate artist of Filter Theatre.
Steve Smith is an award-winning animation director
and co-founder of TRUNK Animation Studio in London.
He has worked in the animation industry for eight
years following his graduation from the Royal College
of Art in 1999 with an MA in Animation. In 2002, Steve
won the 72-hour Big Brother style show for animators
Celmates, broadcast on Channel 4, with his film Barry,
and picked up Broadcast Magazine’s Award for Best
Young Animator. More recently, Steve picked up two
awards at Annecy for FunFacts (Best Educational Film)
and Annuals (Best Music Video), and a coveted British
Animation Award for FunFacts (Best Film/TV Graphics).
TRUNK also scooped a BAFTA for their work on BBC
Newsround’s On Poverty special.
Steve Smith
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Animation and the Marshall Plan
Wednesday 11 November 6.00pm, Pictureville Cinema
ANIMATION PROFESSIONALS NETWORKING EVENT
Thursday 12 Nov 12.30pm – 4pm On Location, National Media Museum
marshall plan
animated yorkshire
Animation and The Marshall Plan.
Selling democracy to rebuild Europe from The Shoemaker and the Hatter to
the making of Animal Farm.
With introduction from Vivien Halas
The Shoemaker & the Hatter 1949
A prize-winning cartoon made by the same
husband and wife team that later turned
Orwell’s Animal Farm into a classic of animated
storytelling. Two neighbours, a shoemaker and
a hatter, argue about how best to recover their
livelihoods after the war. The hatter believes
in producing few hats at a high profit per hat,
protected by tariff. The shoemaker sees the
need for lots of shoes. He wants to lower their
cost through mass production and make his
profit through export and free trade. After many
adventures, the shoemaker eventually proves
that free trade can bring prosperity to them
both. Since the free trade vs. protectionism
argument is still in today’s headlines, the film
is as fresh as ever. One of the most popular
Marshall Plan films, it was shown in eleven
language versions in movie houses throughout
Western Europe. Produced by John Halas and
Joy Batchelor Ltd, London, for ECA, supervised by
Philip Stapp. 16 min, 1949
Think of the Future 1953
As time went by the Marshall Plan films became
more and more concerned with increasing
production. Here George, an everyman worker,
feels nostalgic for the good old days but is
shown by the narrator how new production
techniques will change life for the better. Better
methods production, fair play and fair prices.
Without fear (clip) 1951
Directed by Peter Sachs this is one of the more
overtly propaganda films of the Marshall Plan.
The strong message is matched by powerful
graphic images. What started out as the
reconstruction of war torn Europe developed
in to a strong anti totalitarian message that
heralded the Cold War.
Animal Farm (clip) 1954
Although this was not a Marshall Plan film it
was made as direct result of Halas & Batchelor’s
work for the Marshall Plan. Adapted from
George Orwell’s satirical anti-communist fable
the film remains a landmark in the history of
animation. A scathing indictment of Stalinism
and totalitarian regimes, it tells the story of
a group of animals who take over their farm
after a revolutionary coup. But their idealism
is thwarted and they find that, even among
themselves “some are more equal than others.”
Unlike the Marshall Plan films Animal Farm was
at least partly funded by the newly emerging
CIA and was not only the first animated
entertainment feature to be made in Britain but
one of the first of the Cold War.
Animated Yorkshire is a regional organisation
for animation professionals. We offer training,
screening opportunities and peer support.
Our members will share their experiences of
successful animation projects, showing that
animation can be made anywhere and that you
can earn your living working outside of London
or Bristol. Animation people from outside of our
region are also welcome to attend.
Special guests for this event to give extra
inspiration are The Brothers McLeod. Award
winning Myles and Greg McLeod will show their
work and share some of their secrets of success.
The award winning, BAFTA nominated Brothers
McLeod (Greg and Myles) have a track record
in creating animation for TV, web, and film.
They are represented by Aardman Animations
as Commercials Directors and have directed
campaigns for Skittles, Stena Line, and Guinness
amongst others. They have written and directed
series for BBC (Pedro and Frankensheep) and
Tate Galleries (Art Sparks), and written for a
range of TV, Games and web projects (Noddy,
SpongeBob SquarePants, NHS Relationships
and Sex). They have a well established YouTube
channel and have had several internet successes
including Spamland and Fuggy Fuggy which was
picked up by MTV and Mondo Media. In 2009,
they were nominated for a BAFTA in the Short
Animation category for their film Codswallop.
This event is free, but donations are appreciated
towards the costs of refreshments
Please confirm if you’d like to attend, hello@
animatedyorkshire.co.uk 07540 222399
Animated Yorkshire Showcase
Thursday 12 November 4.30 – 5.30pm Cubby
Broccoli Cinema, National Media Museum
See a selection of films from the members of
Animated Yorkshire (Ay Up!), showcasing the
range of talent and opportunities available for
animators working across the region.
Films will include:
Sounds Like Bradford A collaborative piece
where 6 animators interpreted a quirky
soundscape for Fabric and Bradford City of Film
Ay Up! Anim Lab 4 films made in the Animation
Gallery with the help of members Andy Sykes
and Jamie Evans
A Jumbly Girl 2D animated short made by Rozi
Fuller in collaboration with Hull Sinfonietta
Get the Life U Want An animated documentary
by Zane Whittingham and film maker Rad
Miller made with young people about their
experiences of the care system
The Fisherman Award winning 3D animation by
Bill Beamont of Distant Future.
A full programme will be available on the day
Further details from
hello@animatedyorkshire.co.uk
07540 222399
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Forever Friends
Alan Gilbey
Curtis jobling
special events
The Great
ToonHead Challenge
Thursday 12 November 8.00pm, Museum Cafe
Can you name ALL of the firemen in Trumpton?
Make a Scooby Doo costume out of rubbish
in three minutes flat? Sing the whole theme
song to Top Cat? Come up with the worst idea
for a kid’s show ever? Join us for the radical
reinvention of our annual trivia quiz, as we mix
classic cartoon questions from previous years
with silly tasks and spot prizes. It’s the all new,
all free, mostly silly Great Toonhead Challenge,
with special guest judges and fun stuff to be
won! WARNING: may contain trick questions
and pratting about.
Speed Date the Animators
Thursday 12 November 7.00pm
Gallery 2, National Media Museum
Are you an aspiring illustrator or animator? Do
you have a creative talent you want to share
with the world but don’t know how to? If this
sounds like you, then Speed Date the Animators
is the perfect event for you.
Taking place against the backdrop of Drawings
that Move: The Art of Joanna Quinn in Gallery
Two, this event lets you speed-date industry
insiders including Joanna Quinn and show them
examples of your work. In return you will gain
invaluable professional advice. Remember, when
the bell rings your time is up and you must move
onto your next date! Laptops will be provided to
view work for the speed dating event.
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BarCamp Bradford
Character Design Workshop
Saturday 14 November
9.30am-1.30pm, The WOW Academy
2pm-6.30pm, On Location, National Media
Museum
Wednesday 11 November 2.00pm
Action Zone 1
Join 130 artists, animators, designers, writers,
bloggers, technologists, developers, geeks,
entrepreneurs, academic researchers and
gamers for a day of talks and demonstrations
created by the festival delegates on the day.
BarCamp is a free event and is a perfect
opportunity to network and a great
environment to learn about new technologies,
media, thought leadership and practice from
the very people that make the digital industries
work each day. If you’re curious about digital
culture or are aching to show off your latest
project come and demo, talk, share or just hang
out! The morning sessions will be held at the
WOW Academy and the afternoon sessions will
be held at the National Media Museum.
Tickets are free but pre-registration is required.
To register please visit:
www.barcamp.org/BarCamp-Bradford
Curtis Jobling is a veteran of the animation
and publishing world, working as an author,
illustrator, production designer and concept
developer. His early work in film included propmaking on Wallace & Gromit’s Oscar-winning A
Close Shave and as a puppet painter on the Tim
Burton movie, Mars Attacks!
He is probably best known as the designer of the
BAFTA winning BBC/Nickelodeon show Bob the
Builder and as the creator of the new awardwinning BBC show Frankenstein’s Cat, based
upon his book of the same name.
Curtis will not only be introducing a
retrospective look at his own career path and
portfolio, featuring rare artwork, character
designs and animation, but also leading a series
of exercises on the various methods of character
design for animation.
Scriptwriting Workshop
Friday 13 November 11.00am On Location
Saturday 14 Nov 12noon Gumption Centre
Friday Night Party
Friday 13 November 10.00pm, Revolution Bar
Your chance to mingle with fellow animation
lovers and party late into the night. Free
entrance for BAF delegates – just show your pass
at the door.
Are your films feeling flabby? Are your scripts
out of shape? Now matter how buff your animation looks it will still end up getting sand kicked
in it’s face if it has a wimpy story. So why not
join award winning animation writer Alan Gilbey
for two hours of animated exercise which will
squash and stretch your mental muscles so they
make better movies? In these active sessions
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Alan will use group activities, silly games and
the occasional cartoon to get you laughing and
creating in a fun, informal atmosphere. Oh, and
he’ll teach the basics of story structure, too.
Back at BAF by popular request, these sessions
are strictly limited in numbers so please book
early to avoid disappointment.
Tickets must be purchased separately at £15.
Limited places: 16 max. 2 hours 30 mins
Please meet at the delegate desk in the foyer,
ten minutes before the workshop is due to start.
When Magic Really Happens
Thursday 12 November, 6.00pm, Cubby Broccoli
(screening with Student Films in Competition)
Set on a snowy Christmas Eve, this magical short
story brings Forever Friends to life in a heartwarming adventure for all the family. Beautifully
adapted from the Forever Friends book “When
Magic Really Happens”, the story follows Little
Bear on an exciting journey which leads to Santa
and the discovery of the real magic of Christmas.
Building on the success of last years ‘Magic Star’,
this piece sees Hallmarks step up their creative
drive for excellence in animation and motion
graphics. As a leader in on-line greetings and
with many exciting new developments planned
for next year, we’re on the look out for talented
new animators to collaborate with.
If you think you’ve got what it takes and would
like to know more, contact Olivia Hurrell on
ohurre2@hallmark-uk.com.
BAF09 ident
Professor Paul Wells
Animation Academy, School of Art & Design,
Loughborough University, LE11 3TU
Some Thoughts on Animation and
Film Genre…
In some critical studies, animation is sometimes
viewed as a ‘genre’, a category or type of film
practice like the Western, Science Fiction or
Horror. This is categorically NOT the case.
Animation is a form, and consequently, cannot
be reduced to a set of core generic traits or
narrative expectations. Rather, it can take such
traits and expectations, and re-work or play
with them by using the rich and varied tools
and approaches, which inform the diverse
achievements in the animated form. More than
any other mass-mediated form, animation
can choose its weapons. CGI, 3D stop-motion,
cut-out, collage, clay, sand on glass, digital data
– you name it, animation can deploy it in its
revision or re-interpretation of generic motifs.
This year’s BAF stings build on this idea. In the
shortest of short forms each sting operates as
an engagement with and playful summation of
some of the dominant traits of live action
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genre film. This is not to say that live action film
is not constantly mixing and matching generic
possibilities, but animation can condense and
conflate such invention into the shortest time,
and often with the maximum of impact and
effect. It is equally clear that even within generic
forms there are many variations. The German
Expressionist psychological horror differs from
the Gothic Ghost tale or the slasher movie; space
operas often depart from alien encounter stories
or time travel movies but all are science fiction.
Documentaries might be verité style or fly-on-thewall or interview led yet all exist as non-fiction
film essays. Even in the traditional cartoon, while
we might see variations on silent cinema slapstick
and impossible spectacle, this varies from nation
to nation; Disney, Warner Bros, Fleischer and UPA
shorts differ from each other, and are certainly
of another order from those made in Zagreb,
Tokyo or Shanghai. Even so, stings made for BAF
show how diverse and various generic motifs
can be, while demonstrating than animation can
present a high degree of seemingly incongruous
or fantastical imagery in an entirely coherent and
engaging way.
As well as offering variations on established
genres, animation possesses genres of its
own, based either on the techniques in which
work is made, or through a recognition of the
underlying narrative or thematic structures of
many animated films. The self-evident illusionism
of animation as a form, points to the selfconscious construction of each animated film,
and consequently how particular configurations
amount to common practices. These include
‘primal’ animation based on interior states of
experience like dreams, fantasies and trains of
thought, or ‘deconstructed’ animation, overtly
revealing the process by which animation has
been made and used for specific effects.
Further, animation thrives on ‘micro-narratives’.
Even here, there are genres - shorts based
on lists, single incidents, one conversational
exchange, a specific incidence of metamorphosis,
or an iconic image. The BAF stings are perfect
examples of such micro-narratives revealing
macro generic worlds.
Sting titles and directors
Genre – Comedy
Title: Plummet
Director: Caroline Parkinson
Caroline Parkinson is 27 and works in a college by
day, draws comics at night and fights crime at
weekends. In between this busy schedule she
enjoys traveling and makes a mean Victoria
sponge.
Genre – Horror
Title: Butcher
Director: Kerry Drumm
Kerry Drumm left a post at Aardman Animation
in 2007 to conduct a PhD with the Animation
Academy Research Group at Loughborough
University. Kerry animated on the soon to be
released feature Bunny and the Bull (Paul King,
Mighty Boosh) with Andy Chong and Gareth
Howell and has her work featured in a number of
books. Addicted to Twitter and attempting to be
upgraded on flights.
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Genre – Sci-Fiction
Title: Monster
Director: Gareth Howell
Gareth Howell is an animator and artist based
in Nottingham. He has made a number of short
films in a range of styles, including stop motion
on the recent Bunny and The Bull.
Genre – Documentary
Title: ‘Yo-Cap’
Director: Lee Hyunseok
A professional industrial designer and animator,
Hyunsoek Lee is currently working toward a
PhD at Loughborough University where his
research includes creating digital animation
that simulates and explores the traditional
architecture and environment of Korean
Buddhist temple cloisters.
Music Composed by Verbal Vigilante Music
Composers Jode Steele and David Wainwright
head award winning music production company
Verbal Vigilante Music. They write, record and
produce original music for the Animation, Film,
TV, and Games industries.
In 2008 they received the Channel 4 Talent
Award for they’re soundtrack work and
have scored numerous award winning short
animations and films. This year they will be
working on they’re second independant feature
and writing an album for Hollywood film music
publishers PPMusic.
films in competition
BAF Awards Ceremony
and Closing Night Party
Saturday 14 November
7.30pm Pictureville Cinema
BAF 09 draws to a close with the prestigious Bradford
Animation Festival Awards Ceremony. Find out the result
of the jury’s decision and discover which films from our
official selection go home with a much-coveted BAF Award.
The 2009 awards will once again be hosted by stop-frame
animation legend and all-round entertainer Barry Purves.
The awards ceremony is preceded by a drinks reception in
the Museum Foyer at 7pm and will conclude with the annual
closing night party at the Midland Hotel from 10.00pm.
Don’t forget to vote for your favourite film in competition
and decide who takes home the celebrated Audience Award.
All the films will be screened several times during the
Festival, just fill out a voting form and choose your favourite
film from all competition categories. All forms submitted
will be entered into a prize draw and one lucky person will
receive a special mystery prize.
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jury
Our official Festival selection and the BAF
Awards celebrate the very best in new
animation from around the globe. From more
than 800 submissions we’ve managed to
whittle our selection down to just 63 films.
The short-listed nominees in each category
will fight it out for one of our famed BAF
Awards as chosen by our international jury of
animation experts. In addition, a Special Jury
Award will go to a film the jury feels should be
highly commended and the Grand Prix will be
presented to the best film from all categories.
Kerry Drumm
Kerry Drumm left a post at Aardman
Animation in 2007 to conduct a PhD with
the Animation Academy Research Group at
Loughborough University. Kerry is also an
advisor for BAF and a member ABAC, the
steering group to developing the British
animation archive museum. Kerry animated
on the recently released feature Bunny and
the Bull (Paul King, Mighty Boosh) with Andy
Chong and Gareth Howell and has had her
work featured in a number of books.
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Margot Grimwood
Margot was originally involved with a theatre
company in London, but then turned to
publishing. Involved with animation since
1977, she has been a Director of ASIFA UK since
1985, and is the editor of Dope Sheet magazine.
She has assisted at numerous international
animation events including Hiroshima, Zagreb
and Annecy and has been on several festival
juries including BAF and LIAF.
Priit Pärn
Born 1946 in Tallinn, Priit Pärn graduated from
the Department of Biology of University of Tartu
in 1970 and afterwards worked at the Botanical
Garden of Tallinn as a plant ecologist. He has
been active as a caricaturist and illustrator
since the end of the 1960s and has done more
and more work as a freelance graphic artist
since the early 1980s. Over the past 20 years
Pärn has had over 30 solo exhibitions in various
European countries and Canada. From 1976 to
1994 he worked as an art director and animated
film director at the Joonisfilm animated film
department of Tallinnfilm Studio. Since 1994
he has worked at Eesti Joonisfilm Studio. Priit
has made 11 animated films of duration up
to 45 minutes as well as a host of short films,
commercials, etc., for which he has received
numerous honours and prizes, including the
“ASIFA Life Achievement Award“ in 2002.
Joanna Quinn
Born in Birmingham in 1962, Joanna studied graphic
design at Middlesex Polytechnic, where she began
work on Girls’ Night Out, the first of the awardwinning series of Beryl films. Joanna has been a jury
member and had retrospectives at animation festivals
throughout the world and has received numerous
awards including, BAFTAs, EMMYs and a Cartoon D’Or,
as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. In
1987 she formed Beryl Productions with writer and
producer Les Mills, where they combine commercial
work such as the campaigns for Whiskas and Charmin
with their own individual films such as Body Beautiful,
Elles, Britannia and Dreams and Desires – Family Ties.
Chris Robinson
Chris Robinson is a Canadian writer, journalist and
biographer. His writing has been translated into
many languages. He is also the Artistic director of
the Ottawa International Animation Festival. His
programming has been celebrated and denounced
for placing emphasis on non-traditional forms of
animation and independent creators. In 2004, he was
awarded the President’s Award by ASIFA East for his
contributions to independent animation. Robinson’s
animation books include: Estonian Animation:
Between Genius and Utter Illiteracy (2006), Unsung
Heroes of Animation (2005), The Animation Pimp
(2007), Canadian Animation: Looking for a Place to
Happen (2008), Ballad of A Thin Man: In Search of
Ryan Larkin (2008), and Animators Unearthed (2010).
He is currently working on, Japanese Animation:
Time out of Mind, a rather strange little book about
independent Japanese animation. The book is due out
in August 2010.
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Screenings
Wednesday 11 November 12.30pm Pictureville Cinema
Thursday 12 November 3.00pm Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Friday 13 November 10.30am Pictureville Cinema
professional films
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french roast
Prayer in the Night
Dir. Inma Carpe / Denmark / 2009 / 4mins 2secs
Eroticism, passion and music are involved in the
love story between Louis and Selene, when they
still were god and goddess, living in an imaginary
world separated by a strong and dark spirit, who
controls everything, The Night.
Contact email: owfestival@animwork.dk
the carnivorous flower
alma
Lettin Go
Dir. Malika Whitaker / France / 2008 / 5mins
The stages of the “Let Go” process experimented by
a young woman.
Contact email: malikawhitaker@yahoo.fr
Liver Good Life
Dir. Chris Hemming / UK / 2009 / 4mins 52secs
An educational, yet entertaining, animated short
about liver health and disease prevention.
Contact email: kims@passion-pictures.com
the cat piano
prayer in the night
The Carnivorous Flower
Dir. Maria Lorenzo / Spain / 2009 / 8mins 40secs
A woman waiting at home. A man, or maybe two.
A Venus Flytrap. Carnivorous flowers die when they
chase... but not all of them.
Contact email: mlaurentius@hotmail.com
De si près
lettin go
Dir. Rémi Durin / France / 2009 / 13mins
In a park, a grandfather, sitting on a bench, is
dreaming quietly. Behind the apparent serenity
of the old man, images of the Great War surface :
battles, killings, blasts... Mr Gerbier came close to
dying three times. But today, death is very close.
Contact email: info@euroanima.net
liver good life
wings and oars
Alma
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Dir. Rodrigo Blaas / Spain / 2009 / 5mins 2secs
Alma, a little girl, skips through the snow
covered streets of a small town. Her attention is
caught by a strange doll in an antique toy shop
window. Fascinated, Alma decides to enter...
almashortfilm@gmail.com
The Cat Piano
Dir. Eddie White & Ari Gibson
Australia / 2009 / 8mins 28secs
A vibrant city of singing cats is preyed upon by a
mysterious figure intent on performing its own
twisted feline symphony.
Contact email: eddie@thepra.com.au
Wings and Oars
Dir. Vladimir Leschiov
Latvia / 2009 / 5mins 38secs
A former pilot looks back over his life - The Earth,
the Sky, the Woman - everything that took place
on the journey from an air strip to an abandoned
boat house.
Contact email: vl@lunohod.lv
French Roast
Dir. Fabric O Joubert France / 2008 / 8mins 15secs
In a fancy Parisian Café, an uptight businessman
is about to pay the check when he finds out that
he’s lost his wallet. To save time he decides to
order more coffee... French Roast is a character
driven short animated film about appearances.
Without any dialogue, the story is told through
character animation, music and sound.
Contact email: fabriceojoubert@yahoo.fr
on the quiet
Screenings
Wednesday 11 November 11.00am & 4pm Pictureville Cinema
Wednesday 11 November 8.00pm Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Friday 13 November 12 noon Cubby Broccoli Cinema
student films
Leitmotif
never again
The Girl With Stories In Her Hair
Dir. Phoebe Boswell / UK / 2009 / 2mins 47secs
The city sleeps as the artist shuffles slowly to the
warm red glow of the dingy brothel. Inside, on
the top floor, young Odette has her hair combed
ready for the next sad fool waiting below.
Contact email: phoebe_boswell@yahoo.co.uk
On the Quiet
Dir. Eamonn O’Neill Ireland / 2009 / 5mins 20secs
A film about quiet moments and still experiences
Contact email: eoneillanimation@gmail.com
Operatatatata
Dir. Antoine Rota / France / 2009 / 5mins 15secs
The godfather of a New York mafia family goes
to the opera to please his wife. Three hired killers
from a rival family come up with a scheme to
gun him down from the stage.
Contact email: festivals@cohl.fr
catharsis
Project: Alpha
THE GIRl...
bruce
Project: alpha
i see what you are saying
Dir. Christian Munk Sørensen, Matthias Bjarnason,
Nicolai Slothuus
Denmark / 2009 / 6mins 37secs
Chimpanzee is captured and put in the space
program. After intense training, he finds himself
in the jungle again battling his true nature.
Bruce
operatatatata
urs
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Dir. Tom Judd / UK / 2009 / 3mins 28secs
Advances in open-source genetic programming
allow a young man to grow his very own
action hero.
Contact email: jane.colling@rca.ac.uk
Never Again
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Dir. Ning Ning Suo / France / 2009 / 3mins 35secs
In China, a child escapes the painful process of
having her feet bound. As she flees, she turns into
a black African teenager escaping excision in an
African village, then a young Arabic woman in the
Middle East refusing to wear the burqa.
Urs
Dir. Moritz Mayerhofer
Germany / 2009 / 9mins 30secs
For many years Urs has cared for his ageing mother.
He undertakes a dangerous journey to find a better
place for both of them.
Contact email: sabine.hirtes@filmakademie.de
I See What You Are Saying
Dir. Lottie White / UK / 2009 / 5mins 18secs
One person’s experience of growing up as a
profoundly deaf child in a hearing family.
Leitmotif
Dir. J. Nørgaard, Mette Ilene Holmriis, M. Jørgensen,
M. Thorhauge / Denmark / 2009 / 7mins 6secs
A lonely member of a jazz band only lives through
his music and the visits of a white cat. One day the
nostalgia takes over and he gets a crazy idea.
Catharsis
Dir. Anders Michael / Denmark / 2008/ 7mins 42secs
In a world between life and death a little girl
embarks on a fateful journey to find her mother...
Contact email: an_artwork@yahoo.com
Screenings (showing with the finalists for the Music Video Category)
Thursday 12 November 10.30am Pictureville Cinema
Friday 13 November 3.00pm Cubby Broccoli Cinema
One-Second
stupid Table
short, short films
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Highly Overated
At Death’s Door
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Dir. Billy Allison / UK/ 2009 / 2mins 43secs
Ever wanted to have some peace so you can
simply read your newspaper? That’s all this guy
would like to have, unfortunately, he doesn’t
find it easily.
Contact email: Bli@BliMation.com
Dir. Trevor Hardy / UK / 2009 / 1min 15secs
Cold callers can be frustrating at the best of times...
but this ones in a class of his own.
Contact email: werbs.hardy@ntlworld.com
Iran: a Nation of Bloggers
Dir. Aaron Chiesa / Canada / 2008 / 1min 50secs
Iran: a Nation of Bloggers explores how the
digital world allows many Iranians access to
ideas and freedom of expression they haven't
had for close to thirty years. Blogging is, in
essence, a means of revolution.
Contact email: videovague@gmail.com
The Life of Death
White Poetry, Black Magic
Highly Overated
the pianographer
atormenta
the life of death
Dir. Cesar Diaz Melendez
Spain / 2009 / 1min 5secs
She is waiting for you. Your time is over.
Contact email: Cesardm75@hotmail.com
One-Second
Dir. Justin Cassano / USA / 2009 / 1min 40secs
An eleven-year old describes how he became the
child superhero known simply as "One-Second."
Contact email: cassanoj@uarts.edu
Dir. Brandyn Bold / USA / 2009 / 2mins 32secs
The Grim Reaper is just like every one of us. He
hates his jobs, loves fatty foods, and just wants
to love and be loved. His eternal quest for love
has consistently ended in heart ache. After
some soul searching (he may have borrowed
some of those souls), he decides that true
happiness comes from within, so he changes his
life to live it the way he wants to.
Contact email: mbazm@scad.edu
Stupid Table
The Pianographer
Dir. Marc Mifune / France / 2009 / 2mins 2secs
A sailor lands in a port. Alone with his kitbag, he
strolls around the surrounding area. In a bar he
orders a beer. The barman, carrying a tray of drinks,
makes his way through the group of people. In the
street, a laughing boy runs out to join his friends.
Dir. Eduardo Brenes Cerda
Costa Rica / 2008 / 2mins 39secs
A character plays a sad and melancholic song in
front of a piano on a stage; only to wake up and
find himself in a cold and inhuman office.
Contact email: juanitomen85@gmail.com
At death’s door
Atormenta
Dir. Andy Sykes / UK / 2008 / 1min 15secs
Stupid Table is one of 3 contemplative tales from
Andy’s childhood, told from the point of view of
his adult self. It was created using hand-drawn 2D
animation in Adobe Flash CS3 and was made with
financial investment from Screen Yorkshire.
Contact email: pjboysyko@yahoo.co.uk
White Poetry, Black Magic
Screenings (showing with the finalists for the Short, Short Category)
Thursday 12 November 10.30am Pictureville Cinema
music videos
Hey
This French Song
Mary Wanders Through the Thorn Wood
Hey
Melody Gone
Dir. Guy Ben Shetrit / Israel / 2008 / 3mins 49secs
Sci-Fi Fantasy journey of a little girl with a special
pet friend, a huge toad. Once the girl loses her pet,
which drifts in the sky in a form of a balloon, she is
going through different adventurous scenarios by
chasing it. This is a full 3D animation music video
for the song Hey by Eatliz band.
Contact email: eatlizanimation@gmail.com
Dir. Emmanuel Korres
Greece / 2009 / 3mins 3secs
A janitor pushes his trolley along, on his way to
work. He reflects on the inherent pointlessness
of his task: No one really notices whether its
clean or not...because tomorrow its going
to get dirty again. He stops and inspects
the subject of his labour: a vast clockwork
construct that that dwarfs him completely.
Contact email: sarcolatry@hotmail.com
This French Song
Dirs. Rafael Barion, Adams Carvalho
Brazil / 2009 / 3mins
The video clip to Brazilian singer Thiago Pethit’s
Essa Canção Francesa (This French Song) tells the
story of a French-style (and nouvelle vague-loving)
couple who wants to believe that São Paulo,
Brazil, can be Paris, France. The song also features
Brazilian singer Tiê.
Contact email: rafael.barion@gmail.com
Melody Gone
Les grands chevaux
Les grands chevaux
Dir. Joris Clerté / France / 2009 / 3mins
A young boy riding an imaginary creature pursues
a bandit on horseback to exact revenge.
Contact email: info@doncvoila.net
Of Montreal - ID Engager
Of Montreal - ID Engager
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Take it Easy
Dirs. Marc Reisbig, Hanne Berkaak
UK/ 2008 / 3mins 25secs
Marc Reisbig (of SSSR) and co-director Hanne
Berkaak decided to approach the project with the
idea of animating the game of Consequences. All
of the character combinations that appear in the
video were arrived at as a result of playing the
game with the original illustrated designs.
Take it Easy
Dir. Cesar Diaz Melendez
Spain / 2008 / 4mins 40secs
You think you’re just a passenger and that
nothing leaves its footprint. Don´t forget that
you are a message in a bottle. Stop! Don’t run
so fast. It’s yourself who you are searching for.
Sand animation & stop motion film.
Contact email: cesardm75@hotmail.com
Mary Wanders Through
the Thorn Wood
Dir. Frauke Striegnitz
Germany / 2008 / 3mins 40secs
Mary wanders through the thorn wood,
which seven long years no bloom hath borne.
What clasps she to her breast so close? An
innocent child doth there repose. Fair roses
bloom on every tree, as through the thorn
wood passeth she.
Contact email: trick@fraukestriegnitz.de
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Screenings (showing with the finalists for the TV Series Category)
Thursday 12 November 12 Noon Pictureville Cinema
AVG Shark
Zoopraxiscope
Audi Unboxed
commercials
Audi Unboxed
Dirs. A. Duffy, R. Brooke / UK / 2009 / 1min
A large cardboard box in the middle of an
empty room - an animated character, who is
drawn onto the surface of the box, is engaged
in the painstaking construction of a mysterious
object. This is revealed to be a perfectly crafted
cardboard Audi Q5 car transforming into the
gleaming real car with the end tag, “We’ve
unboxed the box.”
OXFAM: Face the Music
Dir. Ian W Gouldstone
UK / 2008 / 2mins 30secs
A captivating musical take on climate change
and its profound effects on humanity worldwide.
Contact email: contact@iwgouldstone.com
Only Human
This Is Where We Live
BBC Journey to the East
OXFAM
Compare the Market
Dirs. Ben Falk, Josiah Newbolt
Lincon embarks on a journey through a vibrant,
bustling literary world. Commissioned by book
publisher “4th Estate” to celebrate their 25th
Anniversary this short is a marriage of stop
motion and traditional 2D drawn animation.
Contact email: jordanjwood@hotmail.com
AVG Shark
Dir. Michael Zabka
Czech Republic / 2008 / 2mins 55secs
One of a series three short ads to warn viewers
about computer viruses and motivate them to
contact AVG while there is still time.
Contact email: michalzabka@centrum.cz
Lynx Leather
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ITFS-Trailer Zoopraxiscope
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Dir. Johannes Schiehsl / Germany / 2009 / 50secs
Trailer for Stuttgart International Festival of
Animated Film 2009. Two creatures hunt each other
in varying forms through a spinning world.
Dirs. J. Hewlett, P. Candeland, R. ValleyUK/2008/2mins
The BBC’s campaign for the Beijing Olympic Games
was based upon the traditional Chinese folklore
“Journey to the West”. Includes animations by
Passion Pictures and music by Damon Albarn.
Cartoon Forum Trailer
Dir. R. Welker, M. Lang / Germany / 2008 / 1min
Trailer for Ludwigsburg Cartoon Forum 2008.
Compare the Market Aleks
Dir. Darren Walsh / UK / 2008 / 30secs
A Russian meerkat lectures us about the important
difference between two websites.
ITFS-Trailer Only Human
Dir. Benjamin Swiczinsky / Germany / 2009 / 50secs
Trailer for Stuttgart International Festival of
Animated Film 2009.
Lynx Leather
Dir. Michael Mort / UK / 2009 / 40secs
Cavemen discover leather and Lynx.
Screenings (showing with the finalists for the Commercials Category)
Thursday 12 November 12 Noon Pictureville Cinema
tv series
Tom and the Slice of Bread
Tom and the Slice of Bread with
Strawberry Jam & Honey
The Pinky & Perky Show
“Wrestlemaniac”
Dir. Andreas Hykade / Germany / 2008 / 10mins
Up in the woods, Tom meets a trio of shy glow
worms. They sing a beautiful song in three part
harmony... but will they illuminate Tom’s way to
the delicious wild strawberries?
Contact email: studio@filmbilder.de
Dirs. Cyril Adam, Ray Merritt
UK, France, India / 2008 / 12mins 45secs
Pinky and Perky are a pair of piglets who have
just been given their big break in showbiz with
their own live children’s TV show. This week,
their guest is a mad, bad wrestler.
Contact: info@lupusfilms.com
Masha and the Bear
“How they met”
The Hive
The Pinky & Perky Show
Darwin
Dir. Denis Chervyatsov
Russia / 2009 / 6mins 36secs
How the series main heroes Masha and Bear
first met.
Contact: Festival_animaccord@yahoo.com
The Encyclopedia
of the Dunces - Darwin
Dir. Marc Druez / France / 2008 / 3mins 30secs
Pilot episode of a TV series. The project is a gallery of portraits of the childhood and adolescence of educational personalities considered
as rebels or dunces. This story shows the youth
of Darwin, his difficulties in integrating into the
school system, his problems with the family
authority, and his chaotic starts.
Contact email: marc@so-what-now.com
Masha and the Bear
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The Hive
Dir. Ray Merritt / UK / 2008 / 7mins
The Hive is an exciting new animated pre-school
show featuring the little buzzing Bee Family –
Mamma Bee, Pappa Bee, Rubee and Buzzbee – a
lovable family of bumblebees who live happily
together on Honey Farm.
Contact: info@lupusfilms.com
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Screenings
Thursday 12 November 12 Noon Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Saturday 14 November 3.00pm Cubby Broccoli Cinema
films for children
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A Film about Poo
The Magic Stamp
Joseph’s Snails
Dir. Tomoko Oguchi / USA / 2009 / 10mins 54secs
The story portrays the relationship between a
young boy and his grandfather. It is a film about
desire, patience, and perseverance.
Contact email: contact@tomokooguchi.com
Dir. Jean-Pierre Lemouland
France / 2009 / 11mins
Joseph is a shy, introverted ittle boy who collects
snails. One day he gets swallowed up by his
own tummy-button and discovers the disturbing world of the “navel-gazers”, people who, by
only communicating with their navel, curl in on
themselves and turn into snails...
Contact email: jplfilms@wanadoo.fr
A Film about Poo
Dirs. Emily Howells, Anne Wilkins
UK / 2009 / 1min 30secs
This is a film about poo, about things that you
should and shouldn’t do...
Contact email: anne@emilyandanne.co.uk
The Horned Khan
Dir. Sergey Gordeev / Russia / 2009 / 13mins
The story of the Bashkir youth Julibay, who won
a victory over a bad khan.
Contact email: festival@pilot-film.com
Lost and Found
The Horned Khan
Dir. Philip Hunt / UK / 2008 / 24mins
A magical tale of loneliness and friendship based
on the award-winning book by Oliver Jeffers.
One day, a boy finds a penguin on his doorstep
and decides to take it home.......even if that
means rowing all the way to the South Pole!
Contact email: pam@studioaka.co.uk
Lost and Found
The Magic Stamp
The Films for Children category will be judged
by pupils from Royds School in Oulton near
Rothwell, Leeds (Jury members: Harry Ford,
Declan Van Riel, Jordon Wolfenden, Alice Bate,
Tilly-Fleur Hutchinson).
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Screening
Saturday 14 November 3.00pm Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Sponsored by
Animated Hove
My friend Amyad
films by young animators
The Lion at Home
Cool it!
Evacuation Devastation
What’s In Store?
Dir. Lakeside Primary School / UK / 2008 / 3mins
Operation Pied Piper was the biggest and most
concentrated mass movement of people in
Britain’s history. This fictional story dramatises
the human effect from children’s perspective.
Contact email: david.bunting@gmail.com
Dirs. 9-10 year olds / UK / 2008 / 5mins 46secs
As a caretaker leaves a school, the contents
of her store cupboard slowly come to life:
mannequins start whispering, shuttlecocks
leapfrog, toilet rolls unravel, toy cars race off and
sweets escape.
Contact email: charlotte@firstlightmovies.com
Immersion Emergence
The Fish Market
Immersion Emergence
Titus Salt School / UK / 2009 / 4mins 27secs
A tale of doomed love, the story of Sohni and
Mahiwal is one of the world’s classic tragic love
stories. Told in cut-out animation and inspired by
Arpana Caur’s painting “Immersion, Emergence”.
The Lion at Home
Dir. Bricknell Primary School
UK / 2009 / 4mins 12 secs
An earthquake causes a lion cub to tumble
out of a painting and embark on an incredible
adventure through a series of paintings at the
Ferens Art Gallery in Hull.
The Fish Market
Dir. St Richards School / UK / 2009 / 2mins 12secs
The 16th Century Dutch oil painting “The
fish Market” is brought to life by Year 3 pupils
at St Richards Primary School, Hull with in
imaginative retelling involving fish and chips,
nosey neighbours and a birthday surprise.
Inspired by a trip to the Ferens Art Gallery in
Hull. Contact email: david.bunting@gmail.com
What’s In Store?
Cool it!
Dir. North Oxfordshire Academy
5 animated campaign films exploring what
global warming means to young people, how it
will affect them, why it is important and what
the future might hold.
My Friend Amyad
Dir. David Borrull / Spain / 2009 / 8mins
The Instituto Cervantes and PDA present “My
friend Amyad”. Eighteen Spanish and Jordanian
children made this short animated film during a
PDA workshop in Amman, Jordan. They made a
story about the “real”life of two Bedouin people.
Contact email: info@pda-films.com
Animated Hove
Dir. 8-11 yr olds / UK / 2008 / 2mins 25secs
Made by a group of 8-11 year olds, the film takes
you into a kaleidoscope world following the
journey of a little girl searching for a spinning
top. Objects from Hove Museum’s memorabilia
collection inspired the young filmmakers,
who have a variety of learning disabilities, to
complete a project as a team.
Contact email: charlotte@firstlightmovies.com
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Screenings
Wednesday 11 November 11.00am Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Friday 13 November 10.30am Cubby Broccoli Cinema
A traditional christmas...
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panorama 1
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A Traditional Christmas
at Small Birds Singing
Dir. Linda McCarthy / UK / 2008 / 3mins 20secs
Join the Unbelievable family “Spandisman,
Consommé and Delphinium“ for this darkly
festive look at Christmas.
Contact email: linmcar@btinternet.com
TANGo lola
whiplashed
the marker maker
little puppet boy
the old lady and the spider
The Old Lady and the Spider
Dir. A. De Jesus Costa / France / 2009 / 4mins
29secs
A spider, despite constant mistreatment,
desperately tries to be friends with human
beings. A sympathetic grandmother tries to get
her grand-daughter, to befriend the poor spider.
Little Puppet Boy
Dir. J. Nyholm / Sweden / 2008 / 18mins 35secs
Puppetboy is sweating floods of clay, preparing
for a lady’s visit. He becomes even more nervous
when she arrives.
Contact email: info@sfi.se
The Marker Maker
Dir. Jonny Lawrence / UK / 2009 / 2mins 15secs
A spontaneous, interactive and enlightening
whiteboard animation.
Contact email: jonhandsum-41@hotmail.co.uk
Ink
yellow belly end
Dir. J. Wallace / Australia / 2009 / 11mins 8secs
In an animated tale of loss, longing and
resilience, young May loses her favourite toy
at the hands of her mother’s cruel boyfriend.
Contact email: selin@netspace.net.au
Yellow Belly End
Dir. Philip Bacon / UK / 2009 / 8mins 47secs
An enormous cliff top, blue sky, multiple deaths
and a man keeping a meticulous note of it all.
This man lives a relatively peaceful and tidy
existence, filling his time by watching others
ending theirs as they jump from the top of
the cliff. Soon, however, he finds circumstance
plotting against him as he is drawn ever nearer
to the edge of the cliff himself...
Contact email: pabacon@ntlworld.com
Whiplashed
Dir. Arnoud Rijken
Netherlands / 2008 / 5mins 45secs
When a man wakes up behind the wheel of his
crashed car he discovers that he has lost his
memory. It seems that his wife or girlfriend has
died in the accident. In sharp flashes fragments
of his memory come back to him. He soon
discovers that he has been part of some criminal
scheme and is not victim of an accident but
guilty of a crime and the death of the woman. If
only he knew why.
Contact email: distribution@illuster.nl
Tango Lola
Dirs. Sami Ben Youssef & Izabela Rieben
Switzerland / 2008 / 6mins 20secs
Having won the loto, Lola started to imagine her
new life...travels around the world, a tramplike-husband turning into a caring and romantic
gentleman...or keeping everything for herself.
However the husband doesn’t have the same
ideas..
Contact email: sami@felixproduction.ch
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Screenings
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wolves
panorama 2
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Sapmi
Dir. Jan Lachauer, Max Lang
Germany / 2008 / 5mins
SAPMI is the adaption of a Scandinavian creation
myth which explains how the darkness came
into the world.
Wolves
loof and let dime
About St Basil
The Astronomer’s Dream
Shelf Life
shelf life
Loof and Let Dime
photograph of jesus
Dir. Vereshchak Roman
Letters tumble from sky, fall down and fade. A
film made with the inspiration of music “Loof
and Let Dime” by Giovanni Sollima
Contact email: tramsparency@yahoo.com
A Trip to the Seaside
Dir. Nina Bisyarina / Russia / 2009 / 7mins
Three days by train on the way to the dream.
Contact email: bisyarina_nina@mail.ru
about st basil
the astronomer’s dream
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Dir. Chris Gavin / UK / 2009 / 3mins 30 secs
A small band of text men land on a remote
tropical island and with ruthless efficiency,
plunder the islands natural resources and
begin converting the island into a new kind of
paradise.
Contact email: rick@tandemfilms.com
Dir. Rafael Sommerhalder
A howling wolf, an embarrassing incident and a
missed opportunity. Love is made of courage.
Dir. Malcolm Sutherland
Canada / 2009 / 11mins 30secs
When a hungry astronomer falls asleep while
working on a problem he finds the solution not
in outer space, but in the surreal food-chain of
his subconscious mind.
Contact email: animalcolm@yahoo.ca
sapmi
TXT Island
Dir. Natalya Berezovaya
The story about the life of St. Basil.
Contact email: festival@pilot-film.com
Dir. James Spencer, Jon Sortland
USA / 2009 / 15mins 15secs
It’s about two scientists, one with the ability to
visualize advanced theories related to the power
of memory and the human brain, and one with
the determination to do whatever it takes to
reach a scientific breakthrough. They are both
parts of one big puzzle, a puzzle that is a project
that poses a bigger danger to humanity than
anything else in history.
Contact: pixeleyesproductions@gmail.com
Photograph Of Jesus
Dir. Laurie Hill / UK / 2008 / 6mins 40secs
Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and
Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this
documentary-fantasy based on true stories of
requests for impossible images. Real-life archives
become the stage where fact and fiction collide.
Contact email: lauriehi2@yahoo.co.uk
Screenings
lies
the cable car
norwich to sheringham
panorama 3
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Interlude
sbam
interlude
the last thread
three sisters and andrey
Dir. Vincent Franchi / France / 2009/3mins 43secs
A tyrannical king can only find solace in the
music played by his servant. He decides to learn
how to play this instrument : the cello. As he is
arrogant and bitter, he will accept no advice nor
criticism.
sbam
Dir. Antonella Prencipe,Lorenzio Latrofa, Enrica
Casentini, Fabio Santomauro,Filippo Foglietti
Italy / 2009 / 5mins 11secs
The unhappy ending of a love story
Contact: stefano.landini@fondazionecsc.it
TV Dinner
Dir. Simon Tofield / UK / 2008 / 2mins 35secs
A hungry cat resorts to increasingly desperate
measures to gain its owners attention.
Contact email: rick@tandemfilms.com
Norwich to Sheringham
Dir. Bali Engel / UK / 2009 / 6mins 18secs
An old man, a bus nut and an annoying kid
ramble and muck about on a bus ride going from
Norwich to Sheringham.
The Last Thread
Dir. Liz Skaggs / USA / 2009 / 6mins 59secs
The Last Thread is a traditionally animated film
exploring the subject of why we create art.
Contact email: lizskaggsfest@yahoo.com
tv dinner
Lies
Dir. Jonas Odell / Sweden / 2008 / 13mins 40secs
In three episodes based on documentary
interviews, we meet the burglar who, when
found out, claims to be a moonlighting
accountant, the boy who finds himself lying and
confessing to a crime he didn’t commit and the
woman whose whole life has been a string of
lies.
Contact email: info@sfi.se
The Cable Car
Dir. Claudius Gentinetta
Switzerland / 2008 / 7mins
An elderly man is riding in a rusty, weatherbeaten cable car suspended at an alarming
altitude. The man treats himself to a sizeable
portion of snuff. With the sneeze thereafter, the
rickety cable car begins to sway precariously.
Contact email: mail@gentinettafilm.ch
Three Sisters and Andrey
Dirs. Boris Despodov, Andrey Paounov
Bulgaria / 2009 / 14mins
Years have passed. Chekhov’s “Three Sisters”
have survived through time - regimes,
revolutions, illusions, and dreams. Their fate is
about to change when a mosquito enters the
November sky. Hand drawn frame by frame over
live action, this animation is a motion painting
remix of a Russian classic.
Contact email: borisdespodov@yahoo.com
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animated features
‘Disney’s Folly’ to Disney/Pixar:
Animated Features
Since Walt Disney’s pioneering Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs made in 1937, animation has enjoyed
its greatest public profile in its feature length form.
Though seen as ‘Disney’s Folly’ at the time, courting
the risk that no audience could endure watching ‘a
cartoon’ for more than a short time, Snow White
was to actually define animation as an art form, and
crucially, move animation from a supporting role on
the film bill to the headline act.
Disney, nevertheless, craved further cultural
recognition, developing Fantasia (1941) to
demonstrate how animation could be deployed in
the service of illustrating classical music. For some,
the interpretation of Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’
– once the cause of a riot when it was first played
– was the epitome of bad taste; for others, it was
an example of how Modernist aspiration in sound
and image had found ready bedfellows in dissonant
chords and abstract imagery.
Elsewhere, though, animation was already finding
different forms and applications. The first full length
animation, for example, was actually El Apostol
(1919), made in Argentina, and Lotte Reiniger’s
cut-out classic The Adventures of Prince Achmed
(1926) remains a defining moment in animation
history. It is curious to think that Britain could have
had a far earlier claim to a full length feature if it
had kept The Story of the Flag (1927) as a seventy
minute piece, instead of dividing it into a number of
shorts, again fearing that an audience would never
countenance animation running so long. Halas &
Batchelor’s Animal Farm (1954) ultimately proved to
be Britain’s first full length feature, and was a timely
intervention in demonstrating that animated film
could be a vehicle for serious story-telling, and in
revising the representation of animals in cartoons,
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previously almost uniformly understood as funny
caricatures.
Ralph Bakshi was to take this a stage further
in animation’s first ‘XXX’ feature, Fritz the Cat,
(1972) which freely mixed sexual mores and
counterculture attitudes, but arguably, Japan
created the first ‘adult’ feature in A Thousand and
One Nights (1969). The animé long-form has since
produced auteurs like Hayao Miyazaki, Mamuro
Oshii and Satoshi Kon comparable to master live
action directors like Kurosawa, Ozu, and Mizoguchi.
Animated features worldwide have often drawn
on other literary sources. Ptuschko’s The New
Gulliver (1935) adapts Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’;
Karel Zemen in the former Czechoslovakia makes
A Deadly Invention (1958) based on the stories of
Jules Verne, and recently, Britain’s own Framestore
have worked on the adaptation of Kate DiCamillo’s
The Tale of Despereux (2008)
The CG work of Pixar, Dreamworks and Blue Sky,
and the 3D stop-motion puppet films by Tim Burton
and Henry Selick, Aardman and Laika dominate
contemporary animated features. Proving that
2D is not ‘dead’, though, The Triplets of Belleville
(2003) and Persepolis (2008) deployed fresh graphic
forms. Waltz with Bashir (2008) also showed that
animation could deliver politics as well as punchlines. Animated features then, remain progressive
even as they increasingly define the mainstream,
and re-invent cinema.
Professor Paul Wells
Animation Academy, School of Art & Design,
Loughborough University, LE11 3TU
Friday 13 Nov 8.00pm, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Sat 14 Nov 5.00pm, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Dir. Wes Anderson USA 2009 93 mins (tbc) Digital
Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Bill Murray, Owen
Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Michael Gambon,
Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody, Brian Cox, Anjelica
Huston
In a peaceful corner of the countryside, Mr
Fox (Clooney) has settled down with his wife
(Streep), and their son and nephew. But Mr. Fox
can’t quite leave his old chicken-stealing ways
behind. Meanwhile, the Foxes’ arch foes, farmers
Boggis, Bunce and Bean, are determined to catch
our hero at any cost...
Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums) has
conjured up another beautifully rendered
alternative world, this time through the magic of
stop-motion animation, and using some of the
UK’s finest puppetry talents. Based on the classic
Roald Dahl children’s book, this is fantastic
indeed.
Up 3D
Friday 13 Nov 8.30pm, Pictureville Cinema
Dir. Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
USA, 2009, 102 mins, (U)
Voices of Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer,
Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson
Aged curmudgeon Carl Fredricksen dreams
of seeing the wilds of South America. He ties
thousands of colourful helium balloons to his
house, hoping that it will fly south. But after
take-off, Carl finds that he has an accidental
stowaway on board: eight-year-old Boy Scout,
Russell.
Since Toy Story 14 years ago, Pixar Studios have
been miles ahead of the game, turning out one
classic animated film after another. And the
‘serious’ film industry is finally recognising this.
Up opened that arthouse shop window, the
Cannes Film Festival, in May this year - the first
animation to do so. That’s simply because this
is one of the most exciting and innovative film
releases of the year.
“The quality of writing, its delicious sound
design, and the emotional punch it packs all
make this one of Pixar’s finest achievements to
date.” - Sukhdev Sandhu, The Daily Telegraph
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The IMAX cinema, housed by the National Media Museum uses
70mm film, the world’s largest stock. Each frame is ten times
larger than a regular 35mm film frame and when projected,
the screen image is bigger than the human field of vision.
IMAX
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Disney’s
A Christmas Carol: An IMAX 3D Experience
Dir. Robert Zemeckis USA, 2009, approx 105 mins (12A tbc)
Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn
Charles Dickens’ timeless tale meets the magic of Disney in this
wonderful animated adaptation of the Christmas classic. In the run
up to the most joyous day of the year, Ebenezer Scrooge is anything
but. His cruel nature and ‘bah humbug’ personality reign supreme
until a series of late night visits from some unexpected guests slowly
bring kindness to his once cold heart.
Screening every day during BAF - ask at box office
for screening times. Present your BAF delegate pass
to receive a £1 discount on A Christmas Carol.
TV Heaven
body beautiful, joanna quinn
Girls night out
body beautiful, joanna quinn
TV Heaven is a collection of almost 1000 classic
television programmes from the last 60 years
of British broadcasting history, all of which can
be viewed free of charge in our custom built
viewing gallery, the only one of its kind in the
UK. Booking is not necessary, but is advisable
at busy times. All titles showing during BAF 09
will screen in the TV Heaven Viewing Room on
level 3 of the museum.
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The Animator in Residence (AIR) scheme was
launched in 1990 by Channel 4/Museum of
the Moving Image to give talented newcomers
to animation a unique opportunity to develop
their ideas for short films. The scheme
eventually ended in 2004, but for part of this
time the animation gallery at the National
Media Museum was home to the Animator in
Residence booth.
TV Heaven Talk: Joanna Quinn
As part of this year’s Bradford Animation
Festival, TV Heaven will be screening the entire
back catalogue of Animator in Residence (AIR)
films made between 1992 and 2004.
Thursday 12 November, 6.30pm
Friday 27 November, 2.00pm
Join TV Heaven for an introduction to the work
of Joanna Quinn, the award-winning animator
whose career is the subject of a National Media
Museum exhibition, Joanna Quinn: Drawings
that Move (16 October 2009 to 21 February
2010).
Free tickets can be booked at the Museum box
office or by calling 0870 70 10 200
The I’ve Spied Book of beards
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Wednesday 11 November 12.00pm
AIR: 1992 – 1994 11 films (91 minutes)
Thursday 12 November 12.00pm
Friday 13 November 12.00pm
Saturday 14 November 12.00pm
All TV Heaven screenings are free to attend.
The National Media Museum would like to thank
Channel 4 for their support and generosity in
donating the AIR films to TV Heaven.
For further animation programmes in TV Heaven
please see the animation catalogues available at
the TV Heaven desk.
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Tues 10 Nov
11am
12pm
2pm
2.45pm
3.30pm
4.20pm
5.45pm
7.00pm
7.30pm
9.30pm
Amanita Design, Machinarium
Sony London Studios, Sony EyePet Alien Breed Evolution, Team 17
Neil Holmes, 1>UP, Blitz
Game Republic Student Showcase Ian Livingstone, Eidos BAF Preview Screening
BAF Game opening night drinks
Pixelh8
Big Screen Gaming
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Wed 11 Nov
10.30amTuna Tech Model Making Workshop
11am Stuart Varrall, Fluid Pixel Studios
11.50amBroken Sword: TDC
1.30pm Wil Overton, Rare
2.15pm Erik Svedang, Blueberry Garden
3.20pm Neil Thompson, Bizarre Creations
4.20pm Start your own studio: discussion
5pm
Game Republic drinks
8pm
Official Selection: Student Films
Action Zone 1, Media Museum
Great Hall, University of Bradford
Cubby Broccoli Cinema
BAF Game 09: The Art of Gaming
Bradford Animation Festival’s popular splinter strand
dedicated to exploring the overlaps between the
worlds of video games, animation, and film returns for
2009. Now in its fifth year, BAF Game is organised in
strong partnership with the University of Bradford and
Screen Yorkshire’s Game Republic.
Running over two days, BAF Game will feature talks,
discussions, screenings and workshops led by industry
experts that explore the creative side of gaming in all
its forms. Themes for this year include the revival of
independent gaming and the challenges of setting up
your own studio.
tomb raider
eye pet
machinarium
blueberry garden
BAF GAME: speakers
Ian Livingstone OBE,
Eidos Interactive
Tuesday 10 November, 4.20pm,
Pictureville Cinema
A leading pioneer in interactive entertainment,
Ian Livingstone OBE co-founded Games
Workshop in 1975, launched Dungeons
& Dragons in Europe and authored the
Fighting Fantasy books before moving into
the videogames industry in 1992. As Creative
Director of Eidos, Ian has developed world
conquering franchises Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
and Hitman.
BAF Game is delighted to welcome Ian
Livingstone to talk about his fascinating career,
the struggles of being an entrepreneur and the
value of intellectual property in a digital age.
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Sony London Studios, EyePet
Amanita Design, Machinarium
Erik Svedang, Blueberry Garden
Sony London Studios Art Manager, Tara Saunders
and Art Director, Masami Kochi will talk about
developing EyePet for the Playstation 3. An
interactive virtual pet that reacts to the player
through the EyeToy camera, EyePet is sure to be
the ‘must-have’ Christmas present this year.
Designer and animator behind browser game
phenomenon Samorost 1 & 2, Jakub Dvorksy
returns to Bradford to present his latest creation,
Machinarium, a new point-and-click adventure
that has already picked up the award for Best
Visual Art at this year’s Independent Game
Festival. Jakub is joined by composer, Tomas
Dvorak aka Floex, who will talk about creating
the soundtrack for Amanita Design’s awardwinning games.
Game designer and lecturer, Erik Svedang is
sole-creator of Blueberry Garden; a new game
that lets you loose in a fairytale world with
an ever-changing ecosystem. Winner of the
prestigious Seamus McNally Grand Prize at the
Independent Games Festival 2009, Blueberry
Garden combines distinctive hand-drawn
graphics and playful exploration to create a
unique open world.
Tuesday 10 November, 12pm
Pictureville Cinema
BAF is pleased to welcome Tara and Masami
to talk about the animation that brings the
adorable EyePet to life.
Tuesday 10 November, 11am,
Pictureville Cinema
Many thanks to our sponsor, Four Door Lemon
for their generous support
of this event.
Wednesday 11 November, 2.15pm,
BAF Game is proud to welcome Erik to Bradford
who’ll appear in conversation with David
Surman, games and animation lecturer at the
University of Wales, Newport.
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Neil Thompson
Broken sword
Fluid Pixel Studios
BAF GAME: speakers
Neil Thompson
Bizarre Creations
Wednesday 11 November, 3.20pm
Art director at Bizarre Creations and industry
veteran, Neil Thompson has been working in the
games business since 1987. With a background
in illustration Neil has provided artwork for
Spectrum and Commodore 64 games and
worked on Wipeout at the dawn of the Playstation era. Neil joined Sony Liverpool in 2003 and
led the art direction on Playstation 3 titles Motorstorm and F1 Championship Edition. In 2009
Neil left Sony to pursue his career as the Studio
Art Director at Bizarre Creations, developers of
the hugely successful Project Gotham series,
The Club and creators of the highly anticipated
racing title, Blur.
Stuart Varrall, Fluid Pixel Studios
Wednesday 11 November, 11am
A leading British developer of Apple iPhone and
Adobe Flash Lite games, Stuart Varrall is the
Creative Director and co-founder of Fluid Pixel
Studios. Their most recent release, KamiCrazy is
a fiendish cartoon puzzler in the same mould as
Lemmings that asks the player to push, nudge
and swing soldiers using the touch screen
while avoiding numerous hazards and traps. A
huge success, KamiCrazy was downloaded over
500,000 times in the first three weeks of release.
Charles Cecil
Aron Durkin
& Ravi Govind
Broken Sword: The Director’s Cut
Wednesday 11 November, 11.50am
A key figure in the British games industry for
over 25 years, Charles Cecil formed Revolution Software in 1989. Creator of acclaimed PC
adventure games Lure of the Temptress, Beneath
a Steel Sky and the multi award-winning Broken
Sword series, Charles redeveloped and extended
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars –
The Director’s Cut in 2009 for the Nintendo DS
and Wii. We are also pleased to welcome Aron
Durkin and Ravi Govind, animators who both
worked on the title and graduates of Bradford
University.
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Wil Overton, Rare
Wednesday 11 November, 1.30pm
One of the UK’s leading anime illustrators and concept
artist for Rare, Wil Overton has worked on games such
as Perfect Dark Zero and Jetpac Refuelled. Wil has also
designed covers for Retro Gamer and N64 Magazine and
in his spare time runs popular online toy and comic art
supplies shop Dinky Box.
We are pleased to welcome Wil to BAF Game to talk
about his career in illustration and what it takes to be
a concept artist in the games industry. Wil will appear
in conversation with the National Media Museum’s
web editor Mark Green. A games writer and editor for
ten years, Mark Green co-launched and edited Future
Publishing’s NGamer in 2006, and has contributed
to magazines and websites such as Edge, MCV, Retro
Gamer, GamesRadar and more.
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student showcase ‘best team’
Krissx (Blitz)
Alien Breed Evolution
BAF GAME: speakers
Game Republic
and Rockstar Leeds
Student Showcase
Tuesday 10 November, 3.30pm, Pictureville Cinema
In May 2009 Game Republic invited students to demonstrate their latest games course
projects. Attracting more than seventy students from seven Yorkshire and Humber
universities and colleges, awards were given for Game Design, Game Technology, Game
Art and Best Team. In addition to a cash prize, the first prize winners of the Best Team
award secured a summer work placement at Rockstar Leeds, the developer behind
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
BAF Game is pleased to be joined by Jamie Sefton, sector manager for Game Republic
and Ian Bowden, Art Director at Rockstar Leeds to talk about the winning projects.
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Neil Holmes, Blitz 1>UP Initiative
Tuesday 10 November, 2.45pm
Pictureville Cinema
Leamington Spa based Blitz Studios help small
developers realise big dreams for their game.
As one of the world’s largest independent
developers, Blitz Games Studios has launched
the 1>UP programme to help smaller teams
get their game to market. In addition to advice
and studio resources, the 1>UP scheme also
offers help with funding, legal guidance and
marketing.
BAF is delighted to welcome Neil Holmes,
producer at Blitz Studios to present the games
that have been developed through 1>UP and
explain the benefits of the initiative.
Alien Breed Evolution, Team17
Tuesday 10 November, 2pm, Pictureville Cinema
Formed in 1989, Team17 Software are one of
the few remaining ‘Britsoft’ veterans and a
wholly independent games studio based in
Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK. After quickly
making a lasting impact on the games scene
in the early 1990s with a raft of self-published
Amiga classics such as Alien Breed, Project-X,
Superfrog and Body Blows, Team17 released
their breakthough title, Worms, in 1995.
BAF Game is pleased to welcome back Senior
Animator Billy Allison to talk about his role
working on the soon to be released reboot,
Alien Breed Evolution. Billy was part of the ‘Boss
Squad’, a small team of artists who specialised
on animating the alien boss characters.
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BAF GAME: special events
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BAF Game Opening Night
Reception: Pixelh8 performance
Start your own games studio:
discussion panel
Tuna Technologies
Model Making Workshop
Wednesday 11 November, 4.20pm,
Wednesday 11 November, 10.30am,
Action Zone 1
Bradford Animation Festival’s 2009 gaming
strand opens with a special musical performance
by internationally renowned chip tune
musician Pixelh8. Also known as Matthew C.
Applegate, Pixelh8 creates original music and
accompanying visuals from reprogramming
vintage computer systems such as the ZX
Spectrum, Commodore 64, Game Boy and more.
We are pleased to welcome Pixelh8 to Bradford
to give a live performance of his unique sound
and explain how it’s made.
Have you ever dreamed of going it alone, being
your own boss and starting your own games
company? This panel discussion brings together
business owners from different realms of the
gaming industry to offer advice on how to
overcome the hurdles of starting your own
independent studio.
Sarah Quick, artist at Sheffield-based games
studio, Tuna Technologies, leads an exclusive
hands-on workshop showing how she makes the
models for the soon to be released Cletus Clay
interactive adventure. Billed as a wild and crazy,
no-holds barred, rootin’ tootin’ varmint shootin’
side scrolling platform brawler for home console,
every character and set is modeled in clay before
being photographed and composited into a 3D
environment. Inspired by the likes of Aardman
Animation and 50s B-Movies, this technique
creates a brightly coloured, hand-crafted world.
Places are limited to 10 people.
Pictureville Cinema
Drinks will be served in Pictureville Bar before
the live performance starts at 7.30pm.
The panel will be chaired by Alex Wiltshire,
online editor of Edge Magazine. Other panelists
include Sean Murray, managing director of
new indie start-up Hello Games, Stuart Varrall,
Creative Director of iPhone developer Fluid Pixel
Studios, Simon Barratt director of indie game
and middleware developer Four Door Lemon
and Pete McClory, director of multimedia design
agency Panoetic.
This concluding session will be followed by
a drinks and networking reception kindly
sponsored by Game Republic.
Big Screen Gaming
Pictureville Cinema
What better way to round off the day than
a spot of big screen gaming in Pictureville
Cinema? Drop in and play the latest games on
the big screen in glorious high-definition and
surround sound.
BAF preview screening
Tuesday 10 November, 5.45pm
Pictureville Cinema
A special selection of new films, music
videos and machinima screening at Bradford
Animation Festival 2009.
Running order:
French Roast
Bruce
Project Alpha
Hey
ITFS Zoopraxiscope
Shelf Life
Highly Overated
A Prayer in the Night
TXT Island
Little Puppet Boy
Audi Unboxed
Girl With Stories in Her Hair
A Film About Poo
Alma
TV Dinner
Wednesday 11 November, 8pm
The shortlisted Student Films running in
competition for the BAF Awards 2009. Please
see page 40 for more details.
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The IMAX cinema, housed by the National Media Museum uses
70mm film, the world’s largest stock. Each frame is ten times
larger than a regular 35mm film frame and when projected,
the screen image is bigger than the human field of vision.
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Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn
Charles Dickens’ timeless tale meets the magic of Disney in this
wonderful animated adaptation of the Christmas classic. In the run
up to the most joyous day of the year, Ebenezer Scrooge is anything
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BAF Kids gives school children and families the opportunity to
catch the latest animated films from around the globe and see
the work of some of our up and coming young animators.
Henry’s cat
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Wallace & Gromit:
A Matter of Loaf & Death
ASIFA Family Learning Animation
Project: I Have a Dream
Sat 14 Nov 10.30am, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
The ASIFA (International Animated Film
Association) Workshop Group is a global
movement represented in 23 countries and
on three continents. Every year a worldwide
animation project takes place, composed of
several regional young people’s workshops. This
year’s theme celebrates the 50th Anniversary of
ASIFA (2010).
Working with professional animator David
Bunting, six families with children aged 10-14
took part in a week long project to make a two
minute film on the theme of peace, human
values and international communication in
August 2009
The project is a partnership between the
National Media Museum and Education
Bradford’s Family Learning Team. The film’s
soundtrack was recorded at Factory St. Studios,
Bradford with the help of producer Darren
Ibbetson.
I have a Dream will be compiled into a show
reel featuring animations made by groups
from around the world and screened at the
Annecy Animation Film Festival 2010, and at the
Animation Festival Hiroshima 2010.
peter and the wolf
Sat 14 Nov 12noon Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Dir Nick Park / UK / 2008 / 29mins
In celebration of 20 years of the much-loved
duo Wallace & Gromit, join us for a screening
of their latest adventure. Wallace and Gromit’s
new bakery is in danger when a mysterious killer
starts targeting all of the bakers in town.
Tony Fish Retrospective 3
Pigling Bland + Peter and the Wolf
Sat 14 Nov 1.00pm Cubby Broccoli Cinema
For our younger audience, we present a special
programme of films edited by Tony Fish, the
recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement
Award.
Urpo & Turpo Marjut Rimminen, 8mins
Beatrix Potter: Pigling Bland TVC, 30mins
Henry’s Cat: The New President
Bob Godfrey, 15mins
Peter & The Wolf Suzie Templeton, 29mins
Films by Young Animators Award
+ Films for Children
Sat 14 Nov 3.00pm, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
In recognition of the importance of developing
talent, the winner of the Best Film by Young
Animators Award will be announced at a special
screening on Saturday 14 November. The
shortlisted films will be screened and the winner
presented with their BAF Award. The award
ceremony will be followed by a screening of the
nominees for the Films for Children Award.
A Matter of Loaf & Death
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chandeliers, has all the
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Favoured by stars of stage and
screen, it’s a uniquely relaxing
experience that will make even
the shortest visit a memorable
one. And, although our roots are
in the past, our facilities are the
finest the 21st century have to
offer, including the choice of
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Box Office Coordinator
BAF Game Programmer
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Projectionist Projectionist Projectionist Projectionist
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Ben Eagle
Jennifer Hall
Tom Woolley
Jodie Marsh
Duncan McGregor
Tony Cutts
Roger Brown
John Cahill
Symon Culpan
Allan Foster
Jennifer WestonBeyer
IMAX Theatre Manager
Dick Vaughan
Head of Film Programming Tony Earnshaw
Film Programmer
Tom Vincent
Senior Press Officer
Caroline Joynson
E-Marketing Executive
Peer Lawther
Marketing & PR Assistant Sophie Choudry
Designer
Janet Qureshi
Richard Claxton
Web Producer
Web Content Coord. Mark Green
Jane McDevitt
Web Designer Media Developer
Oliver Trenouth
Media Developer
Emma Shaw
Cultural Events Organiser Fozia Bano
Curatorial Assistant,
TV Heaven
Jodie Eagleton
TV Heaven Assistant
Kath Peacock
Audience Develop. Coord. Mandy Tennant
Community Learning
Programme Coordinator Elaine Richmond
Museum Interpreter
Rose Borthwick
Museum Interpreter
Victoria Pink-Boome
Museum Interpreter
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Museum Interpreter
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Museum Interpreter
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A huge thank you to everyone that
helped make this year’s BAF possible…
All the special guests, speakers and jury members
All Museum Staff and Festival Volunteers
Kerry Drumm
Andy Chong
Paul Wells
Michele Sutton, Clare Lamkin &Bradford College
Hashim Hashim and the WOW Academy
Ian Palmer, Mark Goodliff, Claire Chamley and
Mat Overton at the University of Bradford
Gary Peacock at The Midland Hotel
Gary Jackson and Cat Russ
Jay Arnold, Emma Cheshire & Screen Yorkshire
Jamie Sefton at Game Republic
Simon Barratt at Four Door Lemon
Tara Saunders at Sony London Studios
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1895
15
About St Basil
57
Alan Gilbey
31
Alien Breed Evolution, Team 17 73
Alma
39
Alternative Fringe
16
Amanita Design, Machinarium 69
And Play Tricks
14
Animal Farm
28
Animated Features
60
Animated Hove
53
Animated Shakespeare
23
Animated Yorkshire
29
Animation and the Marshall Plan 28
Anna and Bella
21
Art of Joanna Quinn, The
17
ASIFA Family Learning Project
78
Astronomers Dream, The
57
At Death’s Door
43
Atormenta
43
Audi Unboxed
47
Audio Bully’s: Shoot You Down 12
AVG Shark
47
BAF Awards Ceremony
31
BAF Closing Night Party
31
BAF Game
66
BAF Ident
32,33
BAF Jury
36
BAF Kids
78
BAF Preview Screening
75
BarCamp Bradford
30
Barcode
22
47
Big Screen Gaming
74
Big Snit, The
24
Brainwash
21
Breakfast on the Grass
15
Brian Van’t Hul
6
Broken Sword: TDC - Charles
70
Cecil, Aron Durkin, Ravi Govind
Bruce
40
Cable Car, The
59
Car Craze
22
Carnivorous Flower, The
39
Cartoon Forum Trailer
47
Cat Piano, The
39
Cat With Hands, The
24
Catharsis
41
Cathedral, The
24
31
Chris Robinson
14,37
87
Christmas Carol, A
62
City Paradise
9
Claire Jennings
4
Compare the Market Aleks
47
Cool It!
53
Coraline 3D
4,6
Curtis Jobling
31
Daniel Rosenthal
23
Darwin
49
De Si Près
39
Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms
9
Dog
24
Donald Fagan, New Frontiers
9
Dream Doll
9
Dutch Retrospective 1
21
Dutch Retrospective 2
22
Egoli
16
Erasure: Come Up and See Me 12
Erik Svedang, Blueberry Garden 69
53
Family and Friends
12
Fantastic Mr Fox
61
Father & Daughter
24
Feeder: Feeling a Moment
12
Film about Poo, A
51
Films in Competition
34
Fish Market, The
53
Fish Never Sleep
9
Fishing With Spinoza
24
Flux
16
Franz Ferdinand: Take Me Out
12
French Roast
39
Friday Night Party
31
Game Republic
72
Game Republic Student
72
Showcase
Girl With Stories In Her Hair, The 41
Golden Fish, The
21
Goldfrapp: Strict Machine
12
Great
9
Hedgehog In The Fog
24
Henry’s Cat: The New President 78
Highly Overated
43
Hill Farm
16
Hive, The
49
Home Road Movies
9
Horned Khan, The
51
Hot Stuff
24
Hotel E
15
I See What You Are Saying
41
Ian Livingstone, Eidos
68
IMAX
62
Immersion Emergence
53
Ink
54
Interlude
59
43
ITFS-Trailer Only Human
47
ITFS-Trailer Zoopraxiscope
47
Joanna Quinn
16,17,37
Johnny Hardstaff
26
Jonas Odell
12-13
Joseph’s Snails
51
Jute: Queen
21
Karl and Marilyn
15
Killing Of An Egg
King Size Canary
16
Last Thread, The
59
Learned by Heart
9
Leitmotif
41
Lettin Go
39
Lies
12,59
Life of Death, The
42
Life Without Gabrielle Ferri
15
Lion at Home, The
53
Little Puppet Boy
55
Liver Good Life
39
Loof and Let Dime
57
Lost and Found
51
Lynx Leather
47
Mad Action: Smile
12
Magic Stamp, The
51
Man With Beautiful Eyes, The
16
Many Happy Returns
9
Marker Maker, The
55
Masha and the Bear 51
How they met
Midsummer Night’s Dream
23
Music Video/Sound Panel
26
My Friend Amyad
53
Neil Holmes, 1>UP, Blitz
73
Neil Thompson, Bizarre Creations 70
Never Again
41
Never Like The First Time
12
Night of the Carrots
15
Norwich to Sheringham
59
Official Selection: By Young
52
Animators
Official Selection: Commercials 46
Official Selection: For Children 50
Official Selection: Music Videos 44
Official Selection: Professional 38
Official Selection: Student
40
Official Selection: TV Series
48
Oh, What a Knight
21
Old Lady and the Spider, The
55
On the Quiet
41
Once There Was A Dog
24
One-Second
43
Opening Night
18
Operatatatata
41
Order Electrus, The
22
OXFAM: Face the Music
46
Panorama 1
54
Panorama 2
56
Panorama 3
58
Pat Raine Webb
24
Paul Wells
26,32,60
Peter and the Wolf
78
Philips Broadcast 1938, The
21
Photograph Of Jesus
57
Pianographer, The
43
Piccolo, Saxo and Company
21
Picnic
9
Pigling Bland
78
Pink Floyd: The Wall
9
Pinky and Perky
49
Pixelh8
74
Prayer in the Night
39
14-15
Priit Pärn
41
Project: Alpha
24
Queen’s Monastery, The
16
Reci, Reci, Reci
12
Revolver
22
Rise and Fall of the Legendary
Anglok
9
Roobarb
9
Rupert and the Frog Song
57
Sapmi
59
sbam
24
Screen Play
31
57,75
Shelf Life
28
Shoemaker and the Hatter
22
Sientje
9
Silence, The
Some Exercises in Preparation 14
of an Independent Life
9
Some Protection
30
Speed Date The Animators
9
Stain, The
9
Stanley
74
Start your own games studio:
discussion panel
27
Steve Smith
Stressed
9
Stuart Varrall, Fluid Pixel Studios 71
Stupid Table
43
Swimming Lesson, The
22
Swinging The Lambeth Walk
16
Tango Lola
55
Tara Saunders, Sony EyePet
68
Think of the Future
28
47
Three Sisters and Andrey
59
Tom and the Slice of Bread
49
Tom Tom Club: Pleasure of Love 9
Tony Fish
8-11
Toon Head Challenge
30
Touring Holland By bicycle
21
Traditional Christmas at
55
Small Birds Singing, A
T.R.A.N.S.I.T
22
Triangle
9
Triangle, The
15
Trip to the Seaside, A
57
Tuesday
9
Tuna Tech Model Making
74
Workshop
TV Dinner
59
TV Heaven
64
Two Sisters
16
TXT Island
57
Un Jour
16
Up 3D
61
Urpo & Turpo
78
Urs
41
Van den Vos Reynaerde
21
Wallace & Gromit
78
What’s In Store?
52
Whiplashed
55
White poetry, black magic
43
Who I Am and What I Want
16
Wil Overton, Rare
71
Wings and Oars
39
Without Fear
28
Wolves
57
Wolf Wan-Bau
27
Yellow Belly End
55
Yesterday I Think
9
Your Face
16
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Museum’s main auditorium (306 seats), is host
to screenings and major special events at BAF.
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www.brad.ac.uk
Some of the BAF Game talks will take place in the
Great Hall at the University, just a short 5 minute
walk from the Museum. Please ask at the delegate
registration desk in the Museum foyer for more
details on University events.
Named in memory of Cubby Broccoli, the
producer of the James Bond films, Cubby
Broccoli Cinema (108 seats) is a more intimate
space, so is more widely used for showcases
and screenings.
IMAX Cinema Ground Floor
The IMAX cinema, housed by the National
Museum uses 70mm film, the world’s largest
stock. Each frame is ten times larger than a
regular 35mm film frame and when projected,
the screen image is bigger than the human
field of vision. The National Media Museum
can now show the latest 3D IMAX films
alongside classic 2D material. All BAF delegates
will receive concessionary rates for IMAX
tickets throughout the duration of the Festival.
Please ask at the Box Office for more details.
On Location Floor 7
The museum’s conference suite, On Location
(85 seats) is used predominantly for workshops
and masterclasses.
Floor Levels
7 Action Zone
On Location
6 Profiles Gallery
IMAX Projection Box
5 Animation Gallery
4 Magic Factory
3 Experience TV
TV Heaven
Tickets & Passes
Delegate Passes entitle you to free tickets (subject
to availability) to all BAF09 screenings, events and
parties, excluding workshops (these events must be
booked separately).
Event Admission
To gain entry to an event you must have a ticket.
To pick up additional tickets during the Festival please
ask at the Box Office. If you have a delegate pass but
don’t have a ticket you can queue outside and will
be allowed in depending on availability. Latecomers
admitted at the management’s discretion.
1 Gallery One: Neeta Madahar
ALL TICKET HOLDERS MUST BE IN THEIR SEATS
5 MINUTES BEFORE THE EVENT IS DUE TO START OR
RISK LOSING THEIR PLACE.
2 Gallery Two: Joanna Quinn
Delegates must have their pass visible at all times.
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Main Entrance
IMAX Cinema
Information & Tickets
Pictureville Cinema
Cafe
Museum Shop
White Room Picnic Area
LG Kodak Gallery
Insight: Collections
& Research Centre
Eating and Drinking
Pictureville Bar is open throughout the Festival for
drinks and light bites. The perfect place to take a
break between screenings and meet up with friends.
Intermission Café is open from 10am till 6pm, the
Museum’s café offers a range of hot meals, salads and
snacks to keep you going throughout the Festival.
Internet Access
Free, wireless internet will be available in both
Pictureville Bar and the Café during the Festival.
Thursday 12 November 2009
Bradford Animation Festival
Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1 1NQ
www.baf.org.uk
Box Office 0870 70 10 200
Tuesday 10 November 2009
Time
Event
Venue
10:00
11:00
12:00
14:00
14:45
15:30
16:20
17:45
19:00
19:30
21:30
Delegate Registration & ticket collection
BAF Game: Amanita Design, Machinarium
BAF Game: Sony London Studios, Sony EyePet
BAF Game: Alien Breed Evolution, Team 17
BAF Game: Neil Holmes, 1>UP, Blitz
BAF Game: Game Republic Student Showcase
BAF Game: Ian Livingstone, Eidos
BAF Game: BAF Preview Screening
BAF Game Reception
BAF Game:Pixelh8
BAF Game: Big Screen Gaming
Museum Foyer
Pictureville Cinema
12:00
Pictureville Cinema
13:00
Pictureville Cinema
14:45
Pictureville Cinema
15:30
Pictureville Cinema
16:00
Pictureville Cinema
17:20
Pictureville Cinema
18:55
Museum Foyer
19:30
Pictureville Cinema
21:00
Pictureville Cinema
23:00
End Time
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Museum Foyer
Tuna Tech Model Making Workshop
Action Zone 1
12:30
Official Selection: Student
Pictureville Cinema
12:00
Panorama 1
Cubby Broccoli Cinema 12:00
BAF Game: Stuart Varrall, Fluid Pixel Studios
11:50
BAF Game:Broken Sword: TDC
12:35
Official Selection: Professional
Pictureville Cinema
13:05
Panorama 2
BAF Game: Wil Overton, Rare
14:15
Priit Pärn Retrospective 1
Pictureville Cinema
15:30
Panorama 3
Action Zone 1
16:00
BAF Game: Erik Svedang, Blueberry Garden
15:00
BAF Game: Neil Thompson, Bizarre Creations
16:20
Animated Shakespeare + Midsummer Nights Dream Cubby Broccoli Cinema 17:45
Official Selection Student
Pictureville Cinema
17:00
BAF Game: Start Your Own Games Studio
17:20
Book Signing – Daniel Rosenthal
Museum Foyer
18:30
BAF Game: Game Republic Drinks Reception
18:30
Animation & The Marshal Plan
Pictureville Cinema
19:00
Official Selection:Music Videos/Short, Shorts
Opening Night Reception
Museum Foyer
20:00
Opening Night Film
Pictureville Cinema
21:45
89
74
40
54
71
70
38
56
71
14
58
31
69
70
23
40
74
23
74
28
44
18
18
40
Wednesday 11 November 2009
09:30
10:30
11:00
11:00
11:00
11:50
12:30
12:30
13:30
14:00
14:00
14:00
14:15
15:20
15:30
16:00
16:20
17:30
17:30
18:00
18:00
19:30
20:00
20:00
09:30
10:15
10:30
12:00
12:00
12:30
13:30
14:00
15:00
16:30
17:30
18:00
19:00
19:30
20:00
20:00
21:00
Tony Fish – Retrospective 1
Official Selection: Music Videos/Short, shorts
Official Selection: Commercials/TV Series
Official Selection: Films for Children
Animation Professionals Networking Event
Official Selection: Commercial/TV Series
Claire Jennings + Coraline (3D)
Official Selection: Professional Films
Animated Yorkshire Screening
Music Video / Sound Panel
Speed Date the Animators
Official Selection: Films for Children
Priit Pärn Retrospective 2
Toon Head Challenge
Official Selection: Professional Films
Museum foyer
Cubby Broccoli
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
On Location
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Museum – Gallery 2
Pictureville Cinema
Museum Café
11:45
11:15
12:55
13:00
16:00
14:25
17:00
16:05
17:30
19:00
19:00
20:00
20:30
21:30
22:30
22:05
89
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44,42
46,48
51
29
46,48
4
38
29
26
40
30
50
15
30
38
Museum foyer
Pictureville Cinema
On Location
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Museum Foyer
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Revolution Bar
11:35
11:30
13:30
13:30
13:00
14:10
16:00
15:45
17:00
18:00
17:30
20:00
19:25
21:35
22:10
01:00
89
38
54
31
21
40
56
14
44,42
15
16
58
12
46,48
61
61
31
Museum foyer
WOW Academy
Pictureville Cinema
Gumption Centre
Pictureville Cinema
On Location, AZ1, AZ2
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Museum Foyer
Pictureville Cinema
Midland Hotel
13.00
11:30
12:45
12:30
14:30
14.20
15:00
18.00
16:00
17:00
18:35
19:00
19:30
22:00
01:00
89
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78
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78
31
9
6
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78
24
61
22
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Friday 13 November 2009
09:30
10:30
10:30
11.00
12:00
12:00
13:30
14:00
15:00
16:00
16:30
16:30
18:30
18:30
20:00
20:30
22:00
Official Selection Professional Films
Panorama 1
Mette Peters Dutch Retrospective 1
Panorama 2
Priit Pärn in conversation with Chris Robinson
Official Selection: Music Video/Short, Shorts
Priit Pärn / Chris Robinson DVD + Book Signing
Joanna Quinn’s Favourite Films
Panorama 3
Jonas Odell Retrospective
Official Selection: Commercials/TV Series
Fantastic Mr Fox
Up (3D)
Friday Night Party
Saturday 14 November 2009
09:30
09:30
10:30 10:45
12:00
12:00
13:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
17:00
17:30
19:00
19:30
22:00
BarCamp
BAF Kids: ASIFA Family Learning Project
Lifetime Achievement Award: Tony Fish + Retro 2
Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf & Death
BAF Kids: Tony Fish Retro 3
Brian van’t Hul
BarCamp
Films by Young Animators Award + Films for Kids
Fantastic Mr Fox
Mette Peters Dutch Retrospective 2
BAF Awards Reception
BAF Awards Ceremony
BAF Closing Night Party

the BAF 2009 brochure

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