17 MAY 2010
The London International Animation Festival
presents a very special pre-festival event...

DATE: FRIDAY MAY 28TH @ 8PM
VENUE: THE HORSE HOSPITAL, 30 Colonnade, London WC1N
Tickets: £10 full / £8 concession
Approximate running time: 2 hours (with an intermission)

Tube: Russell Square
Buses: 7, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188

ADVANCE TICKETS CAN BE BOUGHT ONLINE AT:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/81683

Advance booking suggested – this is a one off event.

Most of the films have yet to be seen on the UK animation circuit and all have been made in the last 6 – 12 months. We will post the full selection of films closer to the event but expect to see films that cross the whole spectrum of animation. This is an up-to-date snapshot of the incredibly diverse, eclectic and vibrant independent animation scene - every technique, every imaginable subject, every genre and a prelude to this year’s London International Animation Festival, London’s largest and most celebrated annual animation event which this year will be taking place between August 27th and September 5th.

The event will also act as a launch for the latest three DVD releases from LIAF – Best of LIAF 2009 featuring 14 of the best short films screened at the 2009 festival, Best of LIAF: Animated Documentaries 1 featuring 9 short films that have screened at LIAF over the last 6 years and Best of LIAF: Children’s Films 1 featuring 10 films aimed at sparking the imaginations of our youngest audience. The DVDs will be on sale at this event at a special discounted price along with our other DVDs – Best of LIAF 2008, Best of LIAF 2007 and Best of LIAF 2006.

1 MARCH 2010
THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL/JANE COLLING DISTRIBUTION PRESENTS:
AN EVENING WITH THE AMAZING MR BRUCE BICKFORD

DATE: MONDAY MARCH 15TH @ 7PM
VENUE: THE HORSE HOSPITAL, 30 Colonnade, London WC1N
Tickets: £10 full / £7 concession

American cult animator Bruce Bickford is coming to London for a rare, one-night-only presentation of his films, featuring the exclusive English premiere of his new film that he has been working on for many years – Cas’l.

The evening will commence with a screening of Monster Road, the 80-minute award-winning documentary by Brett Ingram, which premiered at the 2004 Slamdance Film Festival where it won ‘Best Documentary’, eventually screening at 85 festivals around the world and winning 16 awards.

This incredibly rare screening will be immediately followed by a live onstage interview and extended audience Q and A with Bruce Bickford, marking his first appearance in England.

Bruce Bickford’s art — a hallucinatory stop-motion amalgamation of Peter Pan, Ray Harryhausen, and The Wild Bunch — is nothing short of amazing. Rock music iconoclast Frank Zappa first used the incredible talents of self-taught claymation wizard Bickford as visual companions to his music in the films Baby Snakes and Dub Room Special in the 1970’s, which made him an international cult figure. More than three decades later, the 62 year-old animator works alone in a basement studio near Seattle. Enchanted forests, animated torture chambers, hamburgers that morph into mythical monsters, and epic battles between giants, fairies and historical figures populate just a small corner of Bickford’s animated universe.

Bickford is an underground artist who has mystified animation critics and inspired generations of animators, while somehow eluding fame. He has been described as the world’s only “outsider artist” working in the medium of animation.

The event takes place at The Horse Hospital, 30 Colonnade
London, WC1N 1JD on Monday March 15th at 7pm. Nearest tube is Russell Square.

20 May 2009
DON HERTZFELDT IS COMING TO LONDON!

We are extremely proud and very excited to announce the animation event of 2009. LIAF is bringing cult animator and Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt to London for a rare, one-night-only presentation of his films, featuring the exclusive UK premiere of his new film I Am So Proud of You.

His longest piece to date, I Am So Proud of You is the eagerly anticipated second chapter to Everything Will Be OK, winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Award in Short Filmmaking and named by many critics as one of the best films of 2007 as well as scooping best film at LIAF 2007.

The screening will be immediately followed by a live onstage interview and extended audience Q and A with Don Hertzfeldt. This will mark his first appearance in England.

Like all of Hertzfeldt's films I Am So Proud of You was single-handedly animated and photographed by hand without the use of computers. It was shot entirely on an antique 35mm animation stand, one of the last remaining cameras of its kind left in America. The film's special effects were meticulously created directly on film, using traditional double-exposures, in-camera mattes and innovative experimental techniques. The 22-minute film was nearly two years in the making.

To learn more about Don Hertzfeldt please visit his website at:

www.bitterfilms.com

The event takes place at the Curzon Soho - 99 Shaftesbury Avenue , Westminster , W1D 5DY on Thursday June 25th at 6-30pm.

Make sure you book a place to ensure you
see the animated event of the year in London
by going to the Curzon website at:

www.curzoncinemas.com

or phoning 0871 7033988

1 February 2009
2,000 ENTRIES & COUNTING!
Submissions for LIAF 09 have now closed.

A big thank you to everyone who has taken the time to submit their film(s) for consideration in LIAF 09. It's incredibly exciting to pick up an overflowing tub of animation goodness every day from the post office in the lead up to the entry deadline. As you can imagine, we're right in the middle of madly processing submissions (getting all your details into our database and preparing films for the jury), so please be patient with us! The jury will make their decisions by the end of March, and filmmakers will be notified in April.

Please note – we are still accepting films for the British panorama so any UK animators who haven’t yet sent us your films, you have until the end of May to do so.

January 2009



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