London set to get animated again
The fourth edition of the annual London International Animation Festival will take place at the Curzon Soho from August 21-26. The festival, the largest of its kind in the UK, will feature over 200 films, including several British premieres, represented in a series of panoramas.
The highlight of the international competitive programme will be Don Hertzfeldt’s Everything Will Be OK, which won the best short award at Sundance and Joanna Quinn’s multiple award-winning Dreams and Desires: Family Ties.
The Digital Panorama will feature amongst others, Croatian director Simon Bogojevic-Narath’s envelope-pushing Leviathan while the British Panorama will feature new work from Royal College of Art and National Film and Television School graduates.
The Animated Documentaries section will look at films on Aspergers Syndrome, life seen from a visually challenged person’s perspective and a portrait of Epping Forest’s sinister history.
The hand-painted panorama features landmark films such as Alexandre Petrov’s My Love, Georges Schwizgebel’s Jeu and Miailhe’s Urban Tale.
This year, the festival’s special guest will be Craig Welch, the acclaimed award winning Canadian director of animated shorts How Wings are Attached to Angels and Welcome to Kentucky.
There will also be focuses on Estonian and Polish animation, sections on kids and abstract animation and a comprehensive look at the history of computer generated animation put together by John Finnegan, the Chair of Siggraph.
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