The shortlist for the Best Animated Shorts at the Academy Awards has been whittled down to ten films – three of which were featured at this year’s LIAF. 'Sunday' directed by Patrick Doyon of Canada screened at LIAF 2011 International Programme 4 (Patrick even came over to join us and introduce … [Read more...] about Academy Award shortlist for Animated Shorts
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LIAF joins the NFTS Curriculum
We are extremely proud to announce an exciting collaboration with the UK’s most prestigious Film School - the National Film and Television School. Two very talented teams of students, lead by Directors Yousif Al-Khalifa and Gat Powell, will be producing trailers for LIAF 2012. The two teams are … [Read more...] about LIAF joins the NFTS Curriculum
LIAF 2011: Mop-up and Looking Forward
It's been a while! Team LIAF has been undercover for a few weeks now (as well as under film reels, digi beta tapes, spreadsheets, voting forms and all sorts of festival-related pieces of paper). We’ve just briefly surfaced from beneath a sea of freight boxes to let you know that the annual LIAF … [Read more...] about LIAF 2011: Mop-up and Looking Forward
And the winner is…
Last night's winners were announced at the sell-out grand finale of LIAF 2011 'Best of the Festival' and here they are... Best of the Festival ‘In A Pig’s Eye’ Atsushi Wada Highly Commended were 'White Hair' Yuka Takeda, 'Freud Fish & Butterfly' Haiyang Wang, 'Dove Sei, Amore Mio' Vejko … [Read more...] about And the winner is…
LIAF Animation Industry Event – Success!
The final installment of our Animation Industry Event was delivered yesterday and we have to conclude - what a success! Saint John Walker of Skillset chaired our first session of the day, 'Making Animation Work' which really was a quite revelatory look into some of the lesser known values of … [Read more...] about LIAF Animation Industry Event – Success!
The latest on LIAF 2011: British Showcase, Theodore Ushev and An Industry Event
The last couple of days have seen LIAF raise the bar when it comes to serving up our dream-menu to the animation hungry. LIAF HQ is still buzzing from an epic success with yesterday’s Barbican programmes. The British Showcase (co-presented by Shooting People) is a programme close to our hearts – it … [Read more...] about The latest on LIAF 2011: British Showcase, Theodore Ushev and An Industry Event