Cardiff Animation Festival 2024 Announce Official Selection & Early Bird Passes On Sale
The fifth Cardiff Animation Festival (CAF) – held 25-28 April 2024 in Chapter, Cardiff with on-line occasions persevering with to 12 May – will embody screenings of 96 quick movies made in 23 international locations around the globe, in addition to three main, animated characteristic movies, a few of the world’s main animation artists sharing their experience and a possibility to make your individual movie to be screened on the pageant (offered you’ll be able to create it in 48 hours).
The theme for CAF24 is ‘treat’; audiences can deal with themselves to Q&As, animation workshops, a free lunch and watch screenings in person or wherever fits them, on-line.
Early fowl passes are actually on sale on CAF’s web site: www.cardiffanimation.com
The programme will embody:
Screenings of 96 quick movies from 23 completely different international locations, introduced in 9 shorts programmes; Peas in a Pod (movies about friendship and relationships), Slice of Life (movies that supply glimpses of day-to-day life), Home Grown (movies made in Wales or by Welsh filmmakers), Pick ‘n Mix (an eclectic grab-bag of shorts), Love at First Bite (movies about love and romance), Eat Your Words (speechless movies) and Midnight Feast (movies for audiences age 18+), family-friendly shorts and the Cardiff Animation Nights launch social gathering. The full number of quick movies could be discovered here.
Feature movie screenings together with three movies launched in 2023; Spanish-French speechless tragicomedy and Academy Award-nominee Robot Dreams, which follows the friendship between a canine and a robotic; Chicken for Linda, a French-Italian movie in regards to the precarious joys of childhood; and Kensuke’s Kingdom, a UK adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s youngsters’s guide of the identical identify, that includes the voices of Sally Hawkins, Cillian Murphy and Ken Watanabe and made partly in Wales. It tells the story of a young boy, shipwrecked on a distant island, who discovers he isn’t alone when he encounters a mysterious Japanese man who has lived there because the finish of World War II. A Q&A with administrators Neil Boyle and Kirk Hendry, artwork director Mike Shortenand and head of compositing Neil Martin will observe the screening.
Other occasions and screenings will embody: masterclasses led by the artists behind a few of the world’s finest liked and most well-known animated movies, together with Welsh sound designer, composer and voice artist Phil Brookes, who will host a reside foley session on stage; the annual Cardiff Animation Nights launch social gathering at The Underdog bar within the metropolis centre; One Bum Cinema Club, probably the smallest cinema on this planet, vastly in style with audiences at earlier CAFs in Chapter’s lobby; Industry Day on Thursday 25 April, an industry-focused day of occasions inc. panel discussions, showcases, Q&As and keynote speeches; a Drawing & Walking Tour of Cardiff led by Cardiff-trained animator and illustrator Briar White; an animation exhibition curated by and held at Cardiff Umbrella; Quick Draw, a 48-hour animation problem the place all movies created inside 48 hours will probably be proven as a part of the pageant; plus relaxed and baby-friendly screenings.
Every occasion within the pageant will probably be captioned and BSL interpreted.
Further bulletins will probably be made – and the remainder of the tickets will probably be on sale – in early March.
We reside and breathe animated movies, and the spotlight of our yr, yearly, is sharing our decide of the perfect new movies with audiences in Cardiff and on-line. We additionally goal to assist our viewers’s wellbeing, factoring in factors to relaxation, take pleasure in meals collectively and socialise. Inspiring, world-class animation in an thrilling, bustling pageant – a deal with for all audiences.
Ellys Donovan, Cardiff Animation Festival Producer
CAF24 is funded by Arts Council of Wales, Ymddiried and Ffilm Cymru Wales. It is sponsored by Picl Animation, BumpyBox, Twt Productions and DisplaySkills Animation Skills Fund with contributions from UK animation productions.
