International Animation Day coming soon!
Late October 2011
Animation Alliance Australia Inc. is preparing for its sixth Australian edition of International Animation Day (tenth worldwide) in partnership with ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film d’Animation) scheduled for 29th and 30th October 2011 in Brisbane.
International Animation Day is the annual worldwide celebration for animation launched by ASIFA in 2002 and is now recognized by approximately 40 countries. International Animation Day commemorates the first public performance of Emile Reynaud’s Theatre Optique at the Grevin Museum in Paris, 28th October 1892.
Such a celebration is an outstanding opportunity to put animated film in the limelight and to make this art more accessible to the general public through animated film screenings, technical demonstrations, workshops, panel discussions and seminars.
International Animation Day is an incredible opportunity to discover films from all over the world assisted by ASIFA’s system of program exchanges. Animation Alliance Australia Inc will communicate with individual international curators to assemble a culturally diverse animation screening program from around the world. Animation programs from Brazil, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Korea, Poland, Portugal, Russia and USA are highly anticipated.
Animation Alliance Australia Inc.’s contribution to the international animation program screened worldwide exclusively for International Animation Day will be a compilation of Australian animated short films of 2010/ 2011 including this year’s Academy Award winner for Best Animated Short, The Lost Thing.
For enquiries, please contact Trent Ellis (coordinator for International Animation Day in Australia) at trentellis@animationalliance.org.au
Call for Australian Animated Short Films!
Deadline for submissions: Friday 12 August 2011
Animation Alliance Australia Inc. is seeking animation submissions for its 6th Australian edition of International Animation Day (10th worldwide) in partnership with ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film d’Animation) scheduled for the 29th and 30th October 2011 in Brisbane. Submissions are welcome from professional artists, first time filmmakers and students. Competition categories include Best Australian Animation Short and Best New Talent in Australian Animation.
Successful entries will be featured in a special screening presentation for International Animation Day celebrations in Brisbane and various participating countries worldwide.
International Animation Day is a worldwide event launched by ASIFA in 2002 to commemorate the first public performance of Emile Reynaud’s Theatre Optique at the Grevin Museum in Paris on the 28th October 1892. Approximately 40 different countries in all continents now celebrate this day with events/ festivals that may span over two weeks.
For full guidelines and regulations and ‘how to submit’ please download the Entry Form.
We look forward to seeing your films!
Ihab Shaker designs ASIFA’s International Animation Day Poster 2011!
Each year, ASIFA calls upon a famous animator to create the visual for International Animation Day. This year, for the first time, the Board of ASIFA elected an Egyptian animator to create the poster for the 10th International Animation Day 2011.
Ihab Shaker (b. Cairo, 1933) directed many animated films in Egypt beginning in 1968 with a film called The Bottle. Shaker then moved to France, where he met and worked with the French pioneer Paul Grimault (Walt Disney’s French and equally celebrated counterpart, as Shaker addressed in one of his interviews). Here, Shaker directed his work entitled, Un Deux Trois, which earned him the prestigious Prix de Qualite in 1973. Later, Shaker became the first Egyptian and African member of ASIFA. In 1993 he was a jury member in Annecy.
The election of Ihab Shaker to design the annual poster for International Animation Day not only recognizes the fact he is a great artist but is also a fitting tribute to the peaceful victory of the Egyptian revolution of January 25, against the dictatorship, which was described by President Obama as “inspiring”. Most importantly, Shaker’s poster design commemorates the 75th anniversary of Egyptian animation, celebrating the first public showing of locally-made animation in the whole of Africa.