Bradford Animation Festival 2011 Brochure

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Welcome
Welcome to the 18th Bradford Animation
Festival. We are delighted that Bradford College
is once again the principal sponsor of BAF and
would like to thank them for their continued
generous support.
Highlights of BAF 2011 include Andy Schmidt
from Pixar, illustrator and film maker Richard
McGuire, the presentation of the Lifetime
Achievement Award to Geoff Dunbar and
a Studio M.I.R retrospective introduced by
Irina Margolina In addition Barry Purves
deconstructs his latest two films, Plume and
Tchaikovsky, and Alan Gilbey and Curtis Jobling
look at the development of a successful cartoon
series with It Lives!, It Lives! – the reanimation
of Frankenstein’s Cat.
BAF Game, in strong partnership with the
University of Bradford returns with a packed
programme including Brendan McNamara from
Team Bondi, Nick Adams from Blitz Games,
Jay Grenier from Image Metrics and Simon
Oliver from Hand Circus. This popular strand
explores the connections between video games,
animation and film.
I hope you enjoy this year’s festival.
Deb Singleton
Festival Director
Bradford Animation Festival
8-12 November 2011
www.baf.org.uk
Special Guests
Andy Schmidt
Geoff Dunbar (Lifetime Achievement) Richard McGuire
Barry Purves
Irina Margolina
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Special Events
Opening Night Film
It Lives! It Lives! - Frankenstein’s Cat
Mainframe
Animated Yorkshire Screening Animated Britain Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
The Art and Evolution of Animation Layout
Workshop: Making a Show a Show
Workshop: Character Animation
Workshop: Understanding Motion Capture
Workshop: Life Drawing with Joanna Quinn
Closing Night Party and Awards
The Fast and Furious Cartoon Quiz
BAFter Hours
Book Signings
LunaMatik: BAF Global Chill
Tenacity and Talent
Beyond Anime: CALF Animation
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Films in Competition
BAF Jury
Professional Films 1
Professional Films 2
Student Films 1
Student Films 2
Music Videos
Commercials
Films for Children
Jury: Films by Young Animators
Films by Young Animators
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Screenings
Panorama 1-3 New Croatian Animation
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BAF Kids
BAF Features Unravel Drop-in screening
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BAF Game
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Festival Acknowledgements Festival Information
Index
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Diary
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Andy Schmidt – Pixar
Friday 11 November
2.00pm, Pictureville Cinema
Andrew L. Schmidt is a senior animator with
Pixar Animation Studios. He has worked in
the animation industry for twenty years and
has a long list of credits in both traditional 2D
animation and CG animated films.
He began his career in 1990 in London, UK
at Amblimation Studios where he worked on
Fievel Goes West, We’re Back and Balto.
In 1996, Schmidt relocated to Los Angeles,
California where he worked for Dreamworks
Feature Animation on The Prince of Egypt, then
moved to Warner Brothers Feature Animation
where he animated on The Iron Giant and
Osmosis Jones.
Since he joined Pixar in 2000, he has animated
some of the most recognized Pixar characters
to date: Mike and Sully in Monster’s Inc.,
Marlin, Dory, and Bruce in Finding Nemo, and
Bob and Helen in The Incredibles. He has also
animated on Ratatouille, Wall-e, Up, Toy Story
3, Cars 2 and various Pixar short films including
supervising animation on Partly Cloudy.
Schmidt is currently creative director of
promotional material for the upcoming
Disney•Pixar feature film Brave, scheduled for
release on 22 June 2012.
Schmidt will discuss the making of
Disney•Pixar’s 12th animated feature film Cars
2, and reveal some of the process and pipeline
used at Pixar to develop their films.
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Geoff Dunbar
BAF 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award
Saturday 12 November
11.00am, Pictureville Cinema
It was in this environment that the much
acclaimed “UBU” was made, a 20 minute
interpretation of “Alfred Jarry’s” anarchic “Grande
Guignol”. Geoff used a vibrant staccato style of
animation to convey the avante garde play and
a brilliant guttural sound track created by Terry
Brown with music by Laurie Scott-Baker. “UBU”
received a “Golden Bear” at the Berlin Film Festival
1980 and the “Grand Prix” at Ottawa in the same
year.
It was these early successes that attracted the
attention of Paul McCartney who invited Geoff
to collaborate on a musical short based on the
beloved English character “Rupert the Bear” a
daily newspaper strip. The outcome of this was a
best selling video and chart topping record also
winning a “BAFTA” for the year 1984.
We are delighted to announce that awardwinning film maker, illustrator and author
Geoff Dunbar is the recipient of the BAF
2011 Lifetime Achievement Award. We
will be screening a retrospective of Geoff’s
award winning work, together with a short
documentary giving an insight into his career.
Geoff Dunbar’s interest in animated film began
at an early age, always fascinated by the work
of the Walt Disney Studios he studied the early
cinematic processes avidly.
Leaving school at the age of 15 and working
in a series of jobs, saving enough money to
purchase an 8-mm movie camera and teaching
himself the rudiments of moving drawings.
On the strength of these early attempts, Geoff
secured himself a trainee position at the
renowned “Film Producers Guild” in London
England, where he honed his skills not only as
an Animator but as a Designer and Director.
Geoff Dunbar’s debut film was based on
the sketches of “Toulouse Lautrec” and was
recognised with a “Palm D’Or” at the Cannes
film festival in 1975. Geoff then set up his
own production studio in the newly converted
creative quarter of the Covent Garden flower
market also in London.
Following this came “Daumier’s Law” another
artistic short based on the work of “Honore
Daumier” the French caricaturist with Sir Paul
McCartney’s inspired music. “Daumier’s Law” won
a BAFTA in 1992 and “La Spiga D’Oro” at Valladolid
in the same year and was directors choice at
Cannes, after this came “Tropic Island Hum”
and “Tuesday” making up the acclaimed “The
McCartney Music and Animation Collection”.
“The Cunning Little Vixen” followed, an animation
version of “Leos Janecek’s” magical opera with the
Maestro Kent Nagano as a musical director with
the Deutches Symphonie Orchester and support
from the European Opera Center BBC2 and Opus
Arte. “The Cunning Little Vixen” received much
critical acclaim and continues to be a DVD best
seller around the world re-recorded in several
languages including the original Czech.
Geoff is also the illustrator and co-author of
“High in the Clouds” a children’s book by Sir Paul
McCartney and Philip Ardagh.
Screening Programme:
Inside the Green Book: The Animated Life of
Geoff Dunbar (written and directed by Paul
Wells), Ubu Roi, Lautrec, Tuesday, Rupert and
The Frog Song, The Tap
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Richard McGuire
in Conversation with Paul Gravett
Thursday 10 November 6.30pm
Pictureville Cinema
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Richard Mcguire
Peur(s) du Noir
Paul gravett
We are delighted to welcome Richard
McGuire to this year’s BAF. Richard will be in
conversation with Paul Gravett, as they discuss
Richard’s career and screen a selection of his
films.
Richard McGuire designed and directed the
animated film ‘Micro Loup’, which is the first
part of the omnibus feature film, ‘Loulou et
autres Loups’ (Loulou and other Wolves, 2003).
He also created the closing film of another
omnibus feature, ‘Peur(s) du Noir ‘(‘Fears of
the Dark’, 2007). He is a regular art contributor
to The New Yorker Magazine. He has written
and illustrated both children’s books and
experimental comics. His comics have appeared
in Art Spiegelman’s RAW magazine, The New
York Times, McSweeney’s, Le Monde, and
Libération. And he is the founder and bass
player of the punk-funk band Liquid Liquid. He is
currently working on a graphic novel expanding
his comic entitled ‘HERE’.
Paul Gravett is a writer, lecturer, broadcaster
and exhibition curator specialising in
international comic art. He co-founded the
influential British comics magazine Escape
(1983-9), directed the Cartoon Art Trust (19922001) and since 2003 has organised Comica,
the London International Comics Festival.
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He writes for the Times, Guardian, Independent,
TLS, Art Review, Dazed & Confused, Comic
Heroes and others and is the author of Manga:
60 Years of Japanese Comics (2004) and Graphic
Novels: Stories to Change Your Life (2005), coauthor with Peter Stanbury of Great British
Comics (2006) and Incredibly Strange Comics
(2008) and editor of The Mammoth Book of
Best Crime Comics (2008) and 1001 Comics
You Must Read Before You Die (2011). Next year
he is curating an exhibition of Posy Simmonds
artwork.
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Barry Purves
Frame by Frame, Note by Note
Friday 11 November 6.30pm,
Pictureville Cinema
Stop-motion animator Barry Purves has
won over sixty major international awards,
including Grand Prix, Best Director, Best Film,
and OSCAR and BAFTA nominations. Barry’s
films are known for their innovation, passion,
elegance, lush visuals and fresh interpretations.
In addition Barry has directed and animated
some 70 commercials, title sequences and
animation inserts for films and pop promos.
Barry will deconstruct his latest two films,
Plume and Tchaikovsky, talking about their
development, the production process, and
how ever shrinking budgets and schedules
can sometimes provoke creativity. Whether
you are interested in the technical side of
animation or the story telling side of it or the
actual animation technique, come along and
be inspired. He’ll also screen the exercise he
did with Staffordshire University animation
department, based on Britten’s Young person’s
Guide to the Orchestra.
Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky
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Irina Margolina
Studio M.I.R.
Special Events
Thursday 10 November 4.30pm,
Pictureville Cinema
Studio M.I.R. was founded in 1991 by film
director Mark Lyakhovetski and script writer
Irina Margolina.
The studio initially focused on producing
documentaries, but since 2005 the Studio
has been producing animated films
and series, and has received numerous
international awards at international
animation festivals. Award winning
scriptwriter, director and producer Irina
Margolina, Head of Studio M.I.R joins us to
introduce a retrospective of their stunning
films.
Screening Programme:
Tales of the Old Piano:
Beethoven, Rossini, Prokofiev
Contemporary Fairy Tales of the World:
Three Little Pigs, Art, La Si Do-Sharp
Simon: the Lost Lake
Gosha’s Tales.
The Animated Century is screening on
Friday 11 November at 10.30am in
Cubby Broccoli (see page 67)
Opening Night Film
It Lives! It Lives! - Frankenstein’s Cat
Mainframe
Animated Yorkshire Screening Animated Britain Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Workshop: Making a Show a Show
Workshop: Character Animation
Workshop: Life Drawing with Joanna Quinn
Closing Night Party and Awards
The Fast and Furious Cartoon Quiz
BAFter Hours
Book Signings
LunaMatik: BAF Global Chill
Tenacity and Talent
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Opening Night
Wednesday 9 November
Reception 7.30pm
in the Museum Foyer
Screening 8.15pm
Pictureville Cinema
The Ugly Duckling
Dir. Garri Bardine, Russia, 2010, 74 min, subtitles
Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale
and accompanied by music from Tchaikovsky’s
Swan Lake, The Ugly Duckling is a stunning
masterpiece from the grand master of
plasticine, Garri Bardine.
The film tells the story of a duckling, unpopular
because he is different. The other inhabitants
of the farmyard think he is ugly and our hero
must overcome many trials and tribulations
before he eventually becomes a majestic swan.
The moral of the story is: A beautiful swan is
hidden in every child, even if outwardly he or
she appears completely different from other
children. One just has to believe and hope, and
eventually the swan will make an entrance.
Garry Bardin was born in 1941 in the city
of Orenburg. After being graduated from
V.I.Nemirovich-Danchenko Drama School at
M.Gorky MKHAT theater he worked as an actor
in Gogol Theater, as in feature films.
In 1974, he composed jointly with V.Livanov
a play “Don Juan” and was invited by Sergei
Obraztsov to Moscow Puppet Theater as a
producer. In 1975 Garry Bardin started to
work in the field of animation as director at
“Soyuzmultfilm” Studios. There, he directed
15 films in 15 years. For this work, he earned
many local and international prizes. His films
have won three “Nika” awards, the animation
“Palme d’or” of Cannes Festival and many
others prestigious prizes worldwide. In 1999,
Garry Bardin was honored with the Russian
Federation State Prize.
Garry Bardin owes his recognition and success
to a variety of techniques and materials such
as: matches in “Conflict”, ropes in “Marriage”,
wire in “Freaks”, or origami in one of his recent
films “Adagio”. Besides, the author makes use of
traditional puppets and plasticine.
In 1991, Garri Bardin and his team started
their own studio “Stayer”. Four films have been
created since then. Those movies also won
numerous prizes.
It Lives! It Lives! –
The Re-animation of Frankenstein’s Cat
Mainframe
Friday 11 November, 12noon
Pictureville Cinema
Friday 11 November, 4.30pm
Pictureville Cinema Alan Gilbey
A look at the development of a successful
cartoon series, from book to script to screen
with Curtis Jobling and later development to
show running with Alan Gilbey.
Alan Gilbey
Alan Gilbey is a screenwriter, show developer
and script editor who has created original
content for major studios on both sides of the
Atlantic, as well as co-producing several series
of his own. Projects he scripted have won
many awards, including two BAFTAs, two Royal
Television Society awards, a British Animation
Award, an Annie and a Leo. He has been a
script consultant to Channel Four’s A.I.R and
MESH schemes, a regularl contributor to BBC2’s
Deadringers and responsible for dragging Pinky
and Perky kicking and squealing into the 21st
century!
Recent projects Alan has developed include
‘Oscar and Hoo’, based on a childrens book
by Oscar nominee Michael Du Duk DuWitt,
‘What’s The Big Idea’ a pre-school series about
philosophy and his own show ‘Dinopaws’ which
has just been commissioned by Cbeebies.
Thursday 10 November, 3.30pm
Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Curtis Jobling
Curtis Jobling
The designer of worldwide hit children’s
television show ‘Bob the Builder’, and the author/
illustrator of numerous children’s books, Curtis
lives with his family in Cheshire, England.
Early work on Aardman’s ‘Wallace & Gromit’ and
Tim Burton’s ‘Mars Attacks’ led to him picking up
his crayons in 1997 to design the BAFTA winning
‘Bob’. The animated series of ‘Frankenstein’s
Cat’, based upon Curtis’ book of the same name,
picked up the Pulcinella award for ‘Best Childrens
Show’ at the 2008 International Cartoons On
The Bay festival in Salerno, Italy. His noisy new
preschool show, ‘Raa Raa the Noisy Lion’, can be
seen on CBeebies, while his original paintings
and prints sell in galleries the world over.
Although perhaps best known for his work in TV
and picture books, Curtis’ other love has always
been horror and fantasy for an older audience.
His first novel, ‘Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf’
was published in January 2011 to great critical
acclaim, making the Waterstone’s Book Prize
shortlist, while the sequel, ‘Rage of Lions’ was
published in July 2011. A further two novels have
been picked up by Puffin, to be released in 2012.
www.curtisjobling.com
Animated Yorkshire
Screening
Mainframe is a high-end animation and
visual effects studio which is home to some of
Europe’s top directors, producers, animators
and vfx artists all working closely to produce
a plethora of groundbreaking and visually
stunning work. Representatives from the
London and Manchester offices will give an
insight into some of their most recent projects,
revealing how they produce everything from
cheeky animated characters to mischievous
morphing cars and how a variety of approaches,
skills and techniques enhance and cross over
into everything they do.
A selection of collaborative and individual work
by Animated Yorkshire members - from adverts
to music videos to short films.
Children’s ITV idents screening in Panorama 1
(see p 53).
Animated Yorkshire is a regional support
organisation for animation, run by animators
for animators and others who love animation.
We’re here to make more opportunities for
animation in Yorkshire. We run regular events,
training activities and screenings and also run
as an animation agency to promote the work of
our leading members. We’re always looking for
new people to get involved.
Check us out on www.animatedyorkshire.co.uk
email [email protected] or call
Kath Shackleton on 07540 222399
Collection: BFI National Archive
Animated Britain:
Selections from Collections
Established in 1935, the BFI National Archive
preserves one of the largest and most significant
moving image collections in the world. It
features material from across the full-range
of film and media production, including an
unrivalled collection of British animation.
Ranging from what is possibly the earliest
surviving animated film, Matches Appeal (c1899)
to the winner of this year’s BAFTA Animated
Short Award, The Eagleman Stag (2010),
the collection includes 1000s of animated
features, shorts, advertisements and television
programmes.
Contact: [email protected]
The Association of British Animation
Collections (ABAC) presents ‘Animated Britain:
Selections from Collections’. This programme of
British animated shorts seeks to draw attention
to the collections that house them, and ABAC’s
overall project in preserving, promoting and
projecting British animation, its history and
legacy. The programme includes material
from the BFI National Archive, the Halas &
Batchelor Collection and The National Archives.
Full screening programme available from the
delegate registration desk on arrival at the
festival.
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The five
Collection:
Halas and Batchelor
The Five
1970, 6 minutes
Director: Joy Batchelor,
Producer: Joy Batchelor and John Halas
Script: Joy Batchelor, Animation: Harold Whitaker,
Music: The Aunties
Sponsor: British Medical Association
Sponsored by the British Medical Association
this film is addressed to young girls warning
them not to wear unsuitable shoes. Although
you can see this film on You Tube it is has
not been screened since the 1970s. It is quite
unusual in that it is semi abstract and all the
characters are toes; 5 young girls go to a mad
op art disco and are crushed in tight shoes. They
long for freedom and comfort of properly fitted
foot ware.
The film is rare and worth saving as it represents
the work of Joy Batchelor and for once she is
fully credited. It follows in the tradition of the
information films she made for the MOI and
COI during and just after WW2 but this time
with a personal twist. The BFI will be restoring
the original film as part of the celebration of Joy
Batchelors’ centenary in 2014.
Fun on the Farm (1935)
Merton Park Production for Cadbury Brothers
The 1930s saw a boom in publicity filmmaking
for mainstream cinemas, and many advertisers
turned to animation to grab audiences’
attention. Cadbury already had a long history of
sponsoring film, and this stop-motion short for
Bournevita shows the depth of their investment.
It was filmed in Gasparcolor, an experimental
colour system, which was particularly suited to
animation due to its rich hues and slow exposure
speeds. The troubling racial caricatures in the
film are evidence of some the complexities of
dealing with such archive material; the beauty
of its production an argument for the pressing
need to do so.
Collection: The National Archives
The National Archives is the official archive of
the UK government and for England and Wales. We select moving image material produced by or
for government departments and agencies. This
includes: public information and government
advertising; training materials for departmental
us; operational material and evidence, including
the use of moving image and sound in public
inquiries. This specialist moving image material
is held on behalf of The National Archives by the
British Film Institute; and the War Museum for
material of conflict or military interest. Popular
material includes Public Information Films
such as the ‘Charlie Says’ series and Second
World War propaganda films. We’ve selected
some less known material for showing at this
year’s festival, which we hope that you enjoy.
Find out more about our collections at www.
nationalarchives.gov.uk/exhibitions
The Police Dog 1916 / USA / Bray Studio / Pathe
An early example which seems to have arrived in
the collections by mistake, attached to an official
War Office newsreel. If there was such a mistake,
it was never spotted and the film became part
of the official collection held by the Imperial War
Museum in 1921. It is valuable as a surviving
item of comic animated cartoon involving
“Pinkerton Pup” and his handler “Officer Piffle”
who is led through a series of mishaps by the
dog. This is apparently a previously ‘lost’ film, of
which no copies were thought to have survived.
John the Bull 1930 / UK
Sponsor: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
An animated propaganda film promoting
‘National Mark Beef’. The eponymous Bull wins
first prize at a cattle show and leads his jubilant
farm friends on a procession to Trafalgar Square.
John the Bull addresses crowds at Trafalgar
Square, telling them to look for the mark on
cows’ joints, presumably before proceeding to a
happy slaughter? This was part of a campaign
for quality, home-killed beef in place of inferior
imports. It has a strong line drawing style, and
word slogans as part of the animation, reflecting
the fact that the film was released in silent as
well as sound versions.
Disgusted Binchester 1973 / UK
Sponsor: COI and Race Relations Board Production
Company: Nicholas Cartoon Films
This title attempts a comic and educational
focus on the 1968 Race Relations Act. Taken as
a wider message, it shows that each piece of
social legislation in Britain over the centuries
has caused great fuss at the time, with some
character complaining in the letters column of
the papers, but always with the fuss diminishing
pretty soon. The animation combines simple,
colourful caricature style through different
historical scenarios to focus on the rantings
of ‘Disgusted...’ himself. The film was directed
by Nicholas Spargo who began his career at
Gaumont-British Animation in the 1940s, but is
best known as the creator of the cult TV classic
Willo The Wisp (1981).”
Ray Harryhausen
The Art and Evolution
of Animation Layout
Special Effects Titan
Wednesday 9 November, 6.15pm,
Pictureville Cinema
Saturday 12 November, 3.30pm
Pictureville Cinema
Fraser Maclean
Ray Harryhausen - Special Effects Titan
France / UK – 2011 – 95’, Directed by Gilles Penso,
Produced by Alexandre Poncet, Co-produced by
Tony Dalton
With Ray Harryhausen, Peter Jackson, James
Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Guillermo Del Toro,
Tim Burton, John Landis, Nick Park, Terry Gilliam,
Douglas Trumbull, Vincenzo Natali, Joe Dante,
Caroline Munro, Martine Beswick, Randall
William Cook, Steve Johnson, Phil Tippett, Ken
Ralston, Dennis Muren, Rick Baker, Christopher
Young…
Ray Harryhausen’s work is unique in movie
history. Author, co-producer, co-director, co-editor,
sculptor, animator and special effect supervisor
of most of his films, Harryhausen used to do
by himself what’s being done nowadays by
dozens of artists. Incidentally, he embodies the
transition between the old generation of visual
effects and the new one. According to his own
words, Harryhausen represents a connecting link
between King Kong and Star Wars.
Ray Harryhausen has not only caused a
revolution in the realm of visual effects with
such movies as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad or Jason
and the Argonauts. He also changed the way
fantasy was depicted on the big screen. Inspired
by science-fiction, heroic-fantasy and antic
mythology, his oeuvre has influenced thousands
of filmmakers. Without him, James Cameron,
Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Peter Jackson, Paul
Verhoeven or Guillermo Del Toro would not have
been the same. Therefore Avatar, Jurassic Park,
Mars Attacks!, The Lord of the Rings, Starship
Troopers or Hellboy II would certainly not exist.
Supported by the Ray and Diana Harryhausen
Foundation, with an unlimited access to the
personal archives of the artists, including his
most famous puppets and armatures, this
documentary retells Ray’s whole career, from his
garage days in the United States to the creation
of Medusa and Pegasus in the original Clash
of the Titans. But more than a simple portrait,
Special Effects Titan endeavors to reveal the
creative chain that has been driving fantasy
cinema from the early days of George Meliès to
the latest Hollywood blockbusters. Prepare for
an epic travel across the international popular
cultures and our modern collective unconscious.
Introduction to Ray Harryhausen Collection Friday 11 November, 11.00am, Insight Lobby The Museum has recently agreed to acquire
Ray Harryhausen’s complete personal collection
including original models and artwork from his
film career. Highlights of this collection will be
shown in this themed display as they arrive.
Scott Caple
Roy Naisbitt
Legendary animation layout artists Roy Naisbitt
(“The Thief & The Cobbler”, “Who Framed Roger
Rabbit”) and Scott Caple (“The Incredibles”,
“Mulan”) join author and industry veteran,
Fraser MacLean for a unique presentation
to mark the publication by Chronicle Books
of “Setting The Scene: The Art & Evolution
of Animation Layout”. Take your seats for
this exclusive journey behind the scenes of
animation and see, at last, how the scenes
themselves are put together.
Fraser MacLean will be signing copies of his
book “Setting The Scene: The Art & Evolution of
Animation Layout” in Pictureville Bar at 5.30pm
on Saturday 12 November.
The Last Belle
We will also be screening:
The Last Belle
Dir. Neil Boyle, UK, 2011, 20mins
The Last Belle is an animated short featuring
two characters journeying towards a blind date:
WALLY, who suffers a nightmarishly drunken
trip through London as he races against the
clock to the rendezvous; and ROSIE, who waits
in a bar dreaming of how wonderful her date is
going to be… if he ever shows up.
Workshops
Alan Gilbey
Zane Whittingham
Making A Show
A Show – Developing
the Animated Series
12noon, Room at the Top
What makes a good idea for a cartoon a great
idea for a fifty two episode series? Join writer,
show runner and developer Alan Gilbey for a
look at some series that made it to the screen,
how they changed to get there and perhaps a
few that got lost along the way. Warning – this
session may contain workshop activities where
you have to get up and do things!
Tickets must be purchased separately at £15.
Limited places: 16max. Duration: 2 hours
30mins. Please meet at the delegate desk in
the foyer, ten minutes before the workshop is
due to start.
Children’s itv ident
Character Animation
Workshop
Thursday 10 November
10.30am, Action Zone 1
Improve the ways that your characters move.
A practical course looking at the 12 principles
of animation, by experienced animator Zane
Whittingham. Film clips will demonstrate
aspects you may need to consider when
animating, and will be brought to life through a
series of fun and practical exercises.
Suitable as a refresher for experienced
animators, or a guide for those starting out with
their animation.
Tickets must be purchased separately at £15.
Limited places: 16max. Duration: 2 hours
30mins. Please meet at the delegate desk in
the foyer, ten minutes before the workshop is
due to start
Understanding Motion
Capture – Choosing the
correct tools for the job
10.30am – 12.30pm
Horton Building,
University of Bradford
In today’s world we have a number of tools
and methods at our disposal with motion
capture, stop motion, CG and traditional
animation being a few of these. How do you
decide however which is the best tool for the
job? In some projects some particular tools
lend themselves more than others. In this
educational workshop we will look at some of
the new advances in motion capture including
real time capture, virtual cameras and virtual
sets. Participants will take part in an interactive
session and learn when these tools should be
applied and when not.
Life Drawing Workshop
with Joanna Quinn
Friday 11 November
4.00pm, Room at the Top
The British Animator Joanna Quinn has
established a considerable international
reputation for her work, winning over 80
awards including two EMMYS and five BAFTAs. In an age of computerised 3D animation, her
distinctive hand-drawn style, combined with
acute observational skills and an incisive wit,
marks her out as a unique filmic artist.
Joanna joins us at BAF 2011 to lead this
adults-only life drawing workshop. special events BAF 25
Networking
BAF Awards Ceremony &
Closing Night Party
The Fast and Furious
Cartoon Quiz
LunaMatik:
BAF Global Chill 2011
Saturday 12 November, 7.30pm,
Pictureville Cinema
8.30pm, Games Lounge
Friday 11 November
Spice Lounge, from 9.00pm
BAF 2011 draws to a close with the prestigious
Bradford Animation Festival Awards Ceremony. Find
out the result of the jury’s decision and discover
which films from our official selection go home with
the much-coveted BAF Award. The 2011 awards
will be hosted once again by stop-frame animation
legend and all-round entertainer Barry Purves.
The awards ceremony will be preceded by a drinks
reception in the Museum Foyer at 7pm. The
Festival will conclude with the annual closing night
party at The Great Victoria Hotel from 10pm.
Remember that really hard animation
pub quiz we run at BAF every year?
This isn’t it. Form a team and join Alan
Gilbey and Andy Wyatt in the Games
Lounge for sixty FREE minutes of manic
questions that will win you fabulous
filmic prizes.
BAFter Hours
Join us in Pictureville bar everyday of the festival
between 5:30pm and 6:30pm for BAFter Hours!
BAFter Hours is THE place to be during the festival.
It’s the perfect opportunity to chat and meet
delegates, film makers and guests in a relaxed
atmosphere. (Vegetarian alternatives available)
£2 a pint (Worthingtons or Carling)
and daily food specials priced at £3.95:
Tuesday Mushroom Stroganoff
Wednesday Jacket with hot filling
Thursday Chilli and rice
Friday Pie and peas
Saturday Hotdog, burger etc
Book Signings
Museum Book Shop
Wednesday 9 November – 1.15pm
Ray Harryhausen’s Fantasy
Scrapbook – Tony Dalton
Pictureville Bar from 5.30pm
The Coffee Table Book of Doom
– Steven Appleby
Friday 11 November
Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf &
Wereworld: Rage of Lions – Curtis Jobling
Setting The Scene: the Art and Evolution
of Animation Layout – Fraser MacLean
Our traditional Friday night party is taking on a
new and exciting guise this year, as we team up
with LunaMatik to bring you BAF Global Chill on
Friday 11 November between 9pm and 2am.
Join us at Bradford’s eclectic Spice Lounge, 55
Leeds Road, Little Germany, Bradford, BD1 5AI.
Free for BAF delegates (just show your delegate
pass) or £2 on the door.
Matik’s eclectic DJs will be spinning tracks on
the wheels of steel, including Kath Canoville
(Global Meltdown, BCB, TGU, Nation Records world fusion ), Banaris Iqbal (BCB - Asian beats),
Jerry Crawford (BCB, Mingles Nightclub - chilled
house set), Tareck Gonheim (BCB, New Bohemia,
Leeds - Sticks And Stones), and Mick Dundee
(TGU, BCB FM - trance and techno). Check out the full LunaMatik programme on
www.lunamatik.co.uk
Tenacity and Talent
How to survive and thrive in
animation. Professional animation
networking lunch
Friday 11 November
12 noon, Room at the Top
Fabulous and inspirational animation is being
made all around us! A panel of animators
show short clips of their recent work and share
their experiences of the highs and lows of the
animation business.
Sorry this event is for animation, media and
education professionals only. However, students
who are members of Animated Yorkshire can
attend this event. Join us online at:
www.animatedyorkshire.co.uk
Check our website www.animatedyorkshire.
co.uk for the latest line-up of top local
animators plus surprise special animation
celebrity guests.
Free for BAF passholders, Animated
Yorkshire and Royal Television Society
Members £5 others. Book here http://
bafprofessionalnetworking.eventbrite.com/
Beyond Anime:
CALF Animation
Films in Competition
1.00pm Pictureville Cinema
playground
The new CALF label aims to redefine our notions
of what we understand by the terms “Japanese
animation” by giving a stage to the some of
the country’s most innovative and exciting
practitioners in the field. This programme
showcases the works of four such talents,
balancing the hypnotic, hand-drawn visual
symphonics of Mirai Mizue and the dazzling
light-shows of the TOCHKA collective with the
more orthodox let no less idiosyncratic linedrawing animations of Atsushi Wada and the
unique photo-collages of Kei Oyama, including
the unforgettable Hand Soap, which has won
prizes at a number of festivals including the
Yokohama International Festival for Arts and
Media and the Oberhausen International Short
Film Festival in Oberhausen.
http://calf.jp/en/jia/oyama.html
HAND SOAP
In A Pig’s Eye Atsushi Wada, 2010 10min
JAM Mirai Mizue, 2009 3min
Consultation Room Kei Oyama, 2005 9min
PiKA PiKA 2007 TOCHKA, 2007 5min
Usual Sunday (Edit) Oyama, 2003/2009 10min
The Mechanism of Spring Wada, 2010 4min
MODERN Mirai Mizue, 2010 7min
PiKA PiKA @ Reel Asian Film Festival
TOCHKA, 2007 1min
Day of Nose Atsushi Wada, 2005 9min
Gentle Whistle, Bird and Stone Wada, 2005 3min
METROPOLIS Mirai Mizue, 2009 5min
PiKA PiKA Workshop @ Media Seven
TOCHKA, 2007 1min
HAND SOAP Kei Oyama, 2008 16min
We are delighted that Atsushi Wada is able
to join us to introduce the screening and his
films.
Our thanks to Jasper Sharp at The Zipangu
Festival for his support in securing this
screening.
We will show other selections from this
year’s Zipangu Fest at the Museum in
December. Please check
www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Film
for more information.
BAF Jury
Professional 1
Professional 2
Student 1
Student 2
Music Videos
Commercials
Films for Children
Jury: Films by Young Animators
28
31
32
35
36
39
40
44
46
48
COMPETITION BAF 29
28 BAF COMPETITION
BAF Awards Ceremony
Films In Competition
Don’t forget to vote for your favourite
film in competition and decide who takes
home the celebrated Audience Award. All
the films will be screened several times
during the Festival, just fill out a voting
form and choose your favourite film from
all categories. All forms submitted will be
entered into a prize draw and one lucky
person will receive a special mystery prize.
BAF Jury
Our official Festival selection and the
BAF Awards celebrate the very best in
new animation from around the globe.
From more than 700 submissions we’ve
managed to whittle our selection down to
just 63 films.
The short-listed nominees in each category
will fight it out for one of our famed BAF
Awards as chosen by our international
jury of animation experts. In addition, a
Special Jury Award will go to a film the jury
feels should be highly commended and the
Grand Prix will be presented to the best
film from all categories.
This year’s Children’s Prize Jury are
members of the Life Online Youth
Engagement Project. Drawn from across
Bradford, they are currently working with
the Museum to create innovative and
interesting artworks for display in the Life
Online [open source] exhibition which
opens at the Museum in March 2012.
Richard McGuire
Pete Bishop
Karin Vandenrydt
Richard McGuire designed and
directed the animated film ‘Micro
Loup’, which is the first part of the
omnibus feature film, ‘Loulou et
autres Loups’ (Loulou and other
Wolves, 2003).
Pete Bishop works in a hole in the ground in
Camberwell called The Shop. Pete has directed
commercials and created idents and broadcast
design for amongst others: MTV America , Channel
[V] and Hallmark. Other work includes co-creation
and direction of the animated TV series, Captain
Star which aired worldwide, Series Director of
Spheriks and Series Director of Bromwell High
[which won both Best of British Animation Award
for Comedy and a Gemini in Canada for best
animated series in 2006].
Karin Vandenrydt was born in 1961, in
Brussels and in 1984 she graduated as a
pharmacist at the KUL.
He also created the closing film
of another omnibus feature,
‘Peur(s) du Noir ‘(‘Fears of the
Dark’, 2007). He is a regular art
contributor to The New Yorker
Magazine. He has written and
illustrated both children’s books
and experimental comics. His
comics have appeared in Art
Spiegelman’s RAW magazine, The
New York Times, McSweeney’s, Le
Monde, and Libération. And he is
the founder and bass player of the
punk-funk band Liquid Liquid. He
is currently working on a graphic
novel expanding his comic entitled
‘HERE’
Pete directed and co-created the HOW TO DESTROY
THE WORLD shorts for the Discovery Channel
with Steven Appleby which have won awards in
2009 at Annecy, Krok, PromaxNY and HAFF and
have been dubbed into 16 languages so far. As
Director of Animation at the National Theatre on
‘England People Very Nice’ his work was nominated
for an Olivier Award in 2010 and the 2008 Holland
Animation Film Festival titles created with Lee
Wilson Wolfe won the 2009 BAA for broadcast
design. Recent work includes creating the short ‘
Oil Story ‘ for babelgum which has been selected for
over 20 festivals and directing and producing the
online live action series on cyclists Freewheelers.
After years of denial, now admits to making the
video for ‘Startrekking across the universe’.
www.petebishop.tv
In 1990 she decided to make a radical
change and returned to her first love: the
cinema. For some years she worked in
the production department of the film
production companies Alexis Films and
Itinera Films.
In the year 2000 the Anima festival in
Brussels asked Karin to develop the Dutch
part of the festival. Impassioned by
animation film, she has worked from then
on for Folioscope. This Brussels organisation
promotes qualitative animated films
and is responsible for Anima, one of the
most important European animated
film festivals. Karin is also member of
Anima’s selection committee and of the
programming team. She is responsible for
the festival juries.
From 2003 till 2007 she was a member of
the selection committee of the Flanders
Audiovisual Fund.
COMPETITION BAF 31
30 BAF COMPETITION
Professional 1
Wednesday 9 November, 11am, Pictureville Cinema
Thursday 10 November, 6.30pm, Cubby Broccoli
Friday 11 November, 10.30am, Pictureville Cinema
The Girl and The Hunter
Plume
The Monster of Nix
Dir. Rosto / Netherlands / 2011 / 30mins
Style: 3D
Life is good in the idyllic fairytale village of Nix...
until an all-devouring monster appears. Young
Willy has to fight it. Alone.
[email protected]
Brandt Rhapsodie
Dirs. François Avril, Morrigane Boyer, Thibaud
Clergue, Paolo Didier, Ren-Hsein, Tristan Ménard,
Lucas Morandi, William Ohanessian, Lucas Veber
/ France / 2011 / 5mins 34secs
Style: 2D
The ordinary tragedy of a romantic encounter,
sung by Benjamin Biolay and Jeanne Cherhal.
[email protected]
A Morning Stroll
Brandt Rhapsodie
Captain Hu
A Morning Stroll
Dir. Grant Orchard / UK / 2011 / 6mins 47secs
Style: 2D, 3D
When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his
morning stroll, we’re left to wonder which one
is the real city slicker
[email protected]
The Monster of Nix
Plume
Dir. Barry Purves / France / 2011 / 14mins 40secs
Style: Stop Motion
A winged man, a fall, a hostile encounter, a life
changed forever.
[email protected]
Captain Hu (Kapitän Hu)
Dir. Basil Vogt / Switzerland /2011 / 9mins
Style: Drawing on film
After a violent storm Captain Hu is stranded
with his ship in the Alps. A helpful farmer finds
new uses for the deep-sea equipment. However,
Captain Hu draws the line at that.
[email protected]
The Girl and The Hunter (La Fille & Le Chasseur)
Dir. Jadwiga Kowalska / Switzerland / 2010 /
5mins
Style: 2D
It›s raining. A small village is in big trouble. The
raindrops are actually a young girl›s tears. And
it›s up to the hunter to put things in order…
[email protected]
COMPETITION BAF 33
32 BAF COMPETITION
Professional 2
Wednesday 9 November, 5pm, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Thursday 10 November, 10.30am, Pictureville Cinema
Thursday 10 November, 9.30pm, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Friday 11 November, 4pm, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
The Lost Town of Switez
Nullarbor
Out of Erasers
Out of Erasers (Sudd)
Dir. Erik Rosenlund / Sweden / 2011 / 15mins
Style: 2D, 3D, Drawn on Paper, Rotoscope, Live
Action, Matte-Paint, Still Photos
As the world transforms, you’re the last one to
find out.
[email protected]
Dir. Kamil Polak / Poland, France, Canada,
Switzerland, Denmark / 2010 / 20mins
Style: 3D, Oil Paint
An accidental traveller, drawn by mysterious
forces, discovers the secret of a ghostly town
which lies at the bottom of a forgotten lake.
[email protected]
Nullarbor
Dirs. Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell / Australia /
2011 / 10mins 18secs
Style: 3D
An animated road movie set across the vast and
barren landscape of Australia’s Nullarbor Plain.
[email protected]
The Maker
Dir. Christopher Kezelos / Australia / 2011 /
5mins 17secs
Style: Stop Motion
A strange creature races against time to make
the most important and beautiful creation of
his life.
[email protected]
Tchaikovsky - An Elegy
Dir. Barry Purves / UK / 2011 / 13mins 5secs
Style: Stop Motion
Alone in a locked room, the Russian composer
Tchaikovsky is forced to evaluate his life and
works.
[email protected]
Tchaikovsky
The Maker
COMPETITION BAF 35
34 BAF COMPETITION
Student 1
366 Days
Wednesday 9 November, 12.30pm, Pictureville Cinema
Thursday 10 November, 2pm, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Friday 11 November, 2.30pm, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
ABUELAS
Growing Space
The Golden Bird
The Bridge Chronicles
The Visit
Damned
Swimming pool
El Macho
366 Days (366 Tage)
Dir. Johannes Schiehsl / Germany / 2011 /
12mins 12secs Style: 3D
Starting his social work as a paramedic,
young Patrick soon comes in contact with
patients that are all suffering from the same
problem: loneliness. As he tries to help, he gets
himself into relationships that are way more
demanding than expected.
[email protected]
The Visit (Der Besuch)
Dir. Conrad Tambour / Germany / 2010 /
A tragicomical story about an old woman, who,
to the horror of her son, is cooking up a meal in
the middle of the night for her long-deceased
friends. But as soon as her son is gone, the
guests actually show up. Fantasy, dream or
reality? What is the difference? When people get
old... [email protected]
The Golden Bird
Dir. Cat Bruce / UK / 2011 / 11mins 37secs
Style: Stop Motion (Puppets), Cut outs
When a boy goes in pursuit of a mysterious
golden bird, he is lead further than he expects
and discovers that in his world, things are not
what they seem. [email protected]
Growing Space
Dir. Kate Broadhurst / UK / 2011 / 4mins 30secs
Style: 2D Drawn, Paint on Glass
An animated documentary about adults
suffering from mental health problems and the
transformational healing process that comes
from gardening and a community spirit.
[email protected]
The Bridge Chronicles (Chroniques du Pont)
Dir. Hefang Wei / France / 2010 / 3mins 55secs
Style: 2D
Qiao-Yu, a volunteer worker, keeps watch over a
bridge on the Yangtze river in China, a notorious
suicide spot. [email protected]
Damned
Dir. Richard Phelan / UK / 2011 / 9mins 15secs
Style: 2D
An over-ambitious beaver goes too far when he
gets the chance to realise his ultimate dream.
Some dreams are just too big.
[email protected]
Abuelas (Grandmothers)
Dir. Afarin Eghbal / UK / 2011 / 9mins 14secs
Style: Stop Motion, Cut outs, Pixilation, After
Effects Manipulated Imagery
In a small apartment in Buenos Aires, an
old woman eagerly awaits the birth of her
grandchild and all the joys of becoming a
grandmother. However, horrific circumstances
mean she will be forced to wait over 30 years.
[email protected]
El Macho
Dir. Daniela Negrin Ochoa / UK / 2011 / 6mins
56secs
Style: Drawn on Paper/Silkscreen Print Background
Carlos yearns for order and calm amidst the
chaos of his loud family of women. The arrival of
Alfonso, an energetic poodle puppy, shatters any
dreams he had of peace and quiet. Soon it’s even
too much for the women. Something has to be
done… [email protected]
Swimming pool
Dir. Alexandra Hetmerova / Czech Republic / 2010
A night love story of two outsiders, who meet in
closed swimming pool in the middle of big city
[email protected]
Student Award
Sponsored by
COMPETITION BAF 37
36 BAF COMPETITION
Student 2
Wednesday 9 November, 6.30pm, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Thursday 10 November, 12pm, Pictureville Cinema
Friday 11 November, 7.30pm, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
The Box (Die Kiste)
Dir. Kyra Buschor / Switzerland / 2010 /
Three frogs have a discussion about the
contents of a mysterious box.
[email protected]
The Renter
Dir. Jason Carpenter / USA / 2011 / 9mins 52secs
Style: 2D, Digitally Hand Drawn
A young boy is dropped off at an elderly
woman’s home for the day. A lone man adds
to the unsettling atmosphere. The savage
slaughter of a chicken makes this daycare a
harsh and confusing world for the boy, who
learns caring can be shown in unexpected way
[email protected]
Discarded (Hors-jeu)
Dir. Elodie D’Ambrosio / France / 2011 /
Following a printing error, a 53rd figure, without
symbol or value, slipped into a pack of playing
cards.
[email protected]
Laszlo
Dir. Nicolas Lemee / France / 2010 /
4mins Style: 2D
Laszlo is a man with no past who just wants to
live in peace- anywhere will do.
[email protected]
Strings (Lyannaj’)
Dir. Guillaume Lorin / France / 2010 /
After the abolition of slavery, a former female
slave and a land-owner who has lost everything
are forced to learn to live side by side.
[email protected]
Student Award
Sponsored by
The Backwater Gospel
Dir. Bo Mathorne / Denmark / 2011 /
As long as anyone can remember, the coming of
the Undertaker has meant the coming of death.
Until one day the grim promise fails and tension
builds as the God fearing townsfolk of Blackwater
wait for someone to die.
[email protected]
A Life Well Seasoned
Dir. Daniel Rieley / UK / 2011 / 3mins 39secs
Style: Stop Motion, Drawn on Paper
A man loses the most important person in
his life, but as the story unfolds we see how
he overcomes this loss. Through a series of
extraordinary events, the man deals with his grief
in a way that may seem absurd to others.
[email protected]
Journey to the Sunflowers Field
(Voyage au Champ de Tournesols)
Dir. Alexandre Siqueira / France / 2010 /
Nicolas, a five year old boy, has an accident while
playing with his kite.
[email protected]
Heldenkanzler
Dir. Benjamin Swiczinsky / Germany / 2010 /
13mins Style: 2D, Drawn on Paper
Heldenkanzler is based on the true story of
Engelbert Dollfuss, who wants to keep up with
european fashions of the 1930s by enforcing his
own fascist dictatorship in Austria.
[email protected]
John & Betty
Dirs. Luke George, Alex Hancocks / UK / 2011 /
3mins 41secs Style: Stop Motion
Elderly couple John and Betty are happily married
until John’s unhealthy obsession with solving
crimes leads him to grow dangerously suspicious
of his wife.
[email protected]
Heldenkanzler
Laszlo
A Life Well Seasoned
Strings (Lyannaj’)
John & Betty
The Box
Journey to the Sunflowers Field
Discarded (Hors-jeu)
The Renter
COMPETITION BAF 39
38 BAF COMPETITION
Music Videos
(showing with the finalists for the Commercials category)
Thursday 10 November, 10.30am, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Wax Tailor featuring Charlie Winston
“I Own You”
Dir. Romain Chassaing / France / 2010 / 3mins
28secs
A city in miniature invaded by texts, by
commercials, by advertising, by Charlie
Winston, the superstar. In the TV, in the
telephone, in the PC, he is everywhere... “I Own
You”
[email protected]
Caffeine
Wax Tailor
Monsieur William
Dir. Patricia Stroud / France / 2010 / 4mins 4secs
Monsieur William is a perfect employee, but
ignores the world outside his office. Which is
the greater evil, to contribute to the corporate
institutional corruption or to live by the street’s
laws? Monsieur William offers us a singular
vision of the world, and raises questions about
the conventional notions of morality, crime, and
good and evil with humour and sarcasm.
[email protected]
The Waterwalk
Miss Daisy Cutter
Little Miss Little
Monsieur William
Gorillaz
The Waterwalk
Dir. Johannes Ridder / France / 2010 / 4mins
21secs
A man goes on his way along the beach. His
walk is in the center of a joyful choreography,
accompanied by the music of the Violent
Femmes.
[email protected]
Caffeine
Dirs. Danae Diaz, Patricia Luna / Germany / 2011 /
5mins 2secs
Caffeine represents a visual metaphor for Brandt
Brauer Frick’s music: As acoustic sounds are put
together electronically, hand drawn images are
animated by traditional and computer media. In
a mechanical world of men, a mass of identical
people start their day with coffee. At a certain
point of a typical working day, one of them wants
a break from his routine.
[email protected]
Little Miss Little
Dir. Marie Bloch-Lainé / Canada / 2010 / 4mins
32secs
Little Miss Little is wandering through her
own cardboard and paper universe. She seeks
comfort in the familiar objets and environment
surrounding her, but the subjective landscape of
her mind starts to crumble, urging her to come
back to reality and civilisation.
[email protected]
Miss Daisy Cutter
Dir. Laen Sanches / Netherlands / 2010 / 5mins
40secs
Miss Daisy Cutter is an animated short film by
Laen Sanches featuring “Nux Vomica” by The
Veils. If Walt Disney took some bad acid this
is what his trip would look like. Don’t say you
weren’t warned.
[email protected]
Gorillaz On Melancholy Hill
Dirs. Jamie Hewlett, Peter Candeland / UK / 2010 /
4mins 21secs
On Melancholy Hill is the second video from the
Gorillaz’ Plastic Beach album. In a continuation
of the story which began with Stylo, we follow
members of the band and some of their musical
collaborators on a dramatic ocean based journey
in their quest to reach Plastic Beach.
[email protected]
COMPETITION BAF 41
40 BAF COMPETITION
Commercials
(showing with the finalists for the Music Videos category)
a.maize
Dirs. Roman Kaelin, Falko Paeper, Florian
Wittmann / Germany / 2011 / 1min 50secs
Popped maize is mostly eaten with salt, sugar
or other flavours, typically in the cinema.
[email protected]
Compare the Market
Streets of Ambitiousness
Dir. Darren Walsh / UK / 2010 / 1min
This latest installment in the Compare the
Market campaign gives us another amusing
glimpse of the history of Compare the
Meerkat from Alexandr Orlov. He explains
how his father set up his business on the
streets of Moscow and slowly built it up to
what it is today.
[email protected]
The Girl Effect
Dir. Mighty Nice/ UK / 2011 / 3mins 4secs
In a beautiful new film commissioned
by the Nike Foundation through agency
Wieden Kennedy and produced by Nexus
Productions, director Mighty Nice takes us
on the journey of a 12 year-old girl to escape
poverty, exploitation and the risk of AIDS/HIV,
to build a better future for herself and future
generations. The Girl Effect is the potential of
600 million adolescent girls to end poverty for
themselves and the world.
[email protected]
The Last Journey (Die Letzte Reise)
Dir. Patrick Altmaier / Germany / 2011 / 1min 27secs
It’s evening. Pale moonlight falls through the leaf
canopy. A small old man strides along the path. He
starts to search for something with his staff in the
nearby bushes. Suddenly small creatures whiz out
of the bushes and follow the old man. We arrive
at the bottom of a giant temple and climb up to
the peak while the spirits of the forest follow us.
As we reach the top the shaman grabs one of the
luminous balls of his staff and throws it into a bowl.
A play of colours emerges and the strange creatures
transform into animals of the forest, running
around the old man and ascending into the night
sky.
[email protected]
The last journey
Compare the Market
The Siege
a.maize
The Girl Effect
Cartoon Network ID Bumpers - Country
Dir. Alexey Alexeev / Hungary / 2010 / 34secs
Animated sequence for Cartoon Network.
[email protected]
The Siege (Coke)
Dirs. Fx & Mat / UK / 2011 / 1min
Nexus directors Fx & Mat teamed with top VFX
house Framestore to create a cinematic story of the
clash of two cultures. Set in an icy fantasy world, the
spot sees an army of fearsome fire warriors poised
to descend upon a peaceful community of icedwelling creatures. Accompanying the warriors is a
huge fire-breathing dragon, which leaves a burning
path of destruction in its wake and little doubt as
to the outcome for the defenceless villagers. The
spot originally aired on Sunday 6 Feb to around 85
million people at the Super Bowl XLV.
[email protected]
Hermit (Einsiedler)
Dirs. Elliot Deshusses, Christian Hertwig / Germany /
2011 / 1min 22secs
An old Hermit fulfils his dream of his own “Home
Cinema”. Even if a whole mountain has to be blown
away.
[email protected]
Hermit
COMPETITION BAF 43
42 BAF COMPETITION
Commercials... cont
(showing with the finalists for the Music Videos category)
Green Design Festival 2010
Dir. NOMIT / Germany / 2010 / 21secs
Promo video for the Green Design Festival,
organized by Brainlab not-for profit agency,
under the aegis of Municipality of Athens
and the Ministry of Environment, Energy and
Climate Change. The concept underlying the
video is that green development produces green
effect, not colour. Green development is not
green. It’s pink, yellow, blue…
[email protected]
This Unpredictable Life
Specsavers Happy
Planters Holiday Party
The Chase
Green Design
Cartoon Network ID Bumpers
Manege Magique
Dirs. Smith & Foulkes / UK / 2011 / 1min
‘This Unpredictable Life’ is a breathtaking mix
of volumetric lighting and magical particles
bringing to life a beautiful fantasy world
through which we take an amazing trip.
Cleverly playing out the central premise of the
ad, that life is an unknowable journey, the film
combines simplicity and sophistication with an
uncomplicated but engaging central character
starkly contrasted against a series of deliciously
complex and abstract backgrounds. Set to
a cinematic poem, we follow our hero as he
swoops and wheels through lifes journey
[email protected]
Dir. Mark Gustafson / USA / 2010 / 30secs
Mr. Peanut appears in an innovative series of
stop-motion animation commercials, animation
directed by Mark Gustafson, that peek into his
multi-dimensional world, where people can
experience his life, his humour and his friends
as never before. The first commercial follows Mr.
Peanut’s annual holiday party, giving the first
glimpse into his personality and the things he
cares about.
[email protected]
Manege Magique
Dir. Viola Baier / Germany / 2011 / 1min 29secs
In the backstage area of circus “Manège
Magique”, a little absent-minded conductor
accidentally mixes up his baton with the magic
wand of the circus’ magician. Unaware of his
mistake he inadvertently turns the whole circus
into a magical underwater world.
[email protected]
Specsavers Happy
Dir. Darren Walsh / UK / 2010 / 30secs
“Happy” is the latest commercial in a campaign
by the leading optician brand Specsavers
and uses characters from the well loved BBC
children’s TV series Mr Men. The new 2D
animation spot features Mr Happy, Mr Greedy,
Mr Messy, Mr Bump and Mr Tickle.
[email protected]
Cartoon Network ID Bumpers - Riverdance
Dir. Alexey Alexeev / Hungary / 2010 / 36secs
Animated sequence for Cartoon Network
[email protected]
The Chase
Dirs. Smith & Foulkes / UK / 2011 / 1min 45secs
Smith & Foulkes have created a dynamic new
spot for Venables and Bell and Intels incredible
new Core i5 processor - a breakneck, all-action
chase scene which is the perfect showcase for
the new processor’s amazing capacity. Using
a dynamic mix of live action and animation,
Smith & Foulkes used every trick in the action
movie book and got some hot insider tips
from their DOP, Oliver Wood, of Bourne trilogy
fame, to create this thrilling spot. The result
is a fantastically clever illustration of the Intel
processor working at maximum capacity and
showing just what the Core i5 can do.
[email protected]
COMPETITION BAF 45
44 BAF COMPETITION
Films For Children
Saturday 12 November, 10.30am, Cubby Broccoli Cinema (BAF Kids)
The Itch of the Golden Nit
Tiger
Dir. Janis Cimermanis / Latvia / 2010 / 7mins
46 secs
A dark caravan arrives in the city during the
night. The next morning children find a big
box left on the street. Strange sounds come
from this box. The famous Rescue Team men
have been called in to help…
[email protected]
Marvin
Dir. Mark Nute / UK / 2010 / 7mins 11secs
Marvin was born with a hole in his head. He
wasn’t born stupid, he wasn’t born dead... A
story about being different narrated by Steve
Coogan.
[email protected]
The Itch of the Golden Nit
Dir. Sarah Cox / UK / 2011 / 30mins
Beanie’s life changes forever when Evil Stella
goes in search of The Golden Nit, kidnapping
Beanie’s parents thinking they have it! The
Golden Nit is the battery that powers the sun
and if Beanie doesn’t get it home by sunset
the sun will die and the universe is doomed.
[email protected]
Tiger
Tinga Tinga Tales
Acorn Boy (Ziluks)
Dir. Dace Riduze / Latvia / 2011 / 9mins 49secs
Have you ever made little creatures out of
acorns? This is a story about a little Acorn Boy
and his colourful adventures in the village of
Stalks, where he meets Bee, Mr. Spider, the Ants,
and all the other bugs…
[email protected]
Dodu - The Cardboard Boy
(Dodu - O Rapaz De Cartao)
Dir. José Miguel Ribeiro / Portugal / 2010 / 5mins
Dodu is a very sensitive boy. He lives in a hostile
city for children and he is forced to spend
many hours indoors. Therefore he plays make
believe inside an empty cardboard box. Each
time Dodu scratches the cardboard’s surface,
he creates extraordinary worlds inhabited by
singular creatures that help him to cope with his
emotions and to grow.
[email protected]
Tinga Tinga Tales: Why Woodpecker Pecks
Dirs. Claudia Lloyd, Richard Jeffery, Martyn Jones,
Jim Nolan / UK / 2010 / 11mins 30 secs
Why do monkeys swing in the trees and
flamingos stand on one leg? Why do elephants
trumpet and ccks crow? Why do zebra have
stripes and leopard spots, rhinos horns and
camels humps? Tinga Ting Tales tells a modern,
young audience what really happened.
[email protected]
Dodu - The Cardboard Boy
Acorn Boy
Marvin
COMPETITION BAF 47
46 BAF COMPETITION
Jury - Films by Young Animators
Thursday 10 November, 12 noon, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Saturday 12 November, 2pm, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Linda
McCarthy
Irina
Margolina
Barry
Purves
Linda McCarthy is a film maker specialising in
stop-motion animation. She has made and
exhibited ceramics, written and performed
marionette shows, and in November 2007
received a BA in Animation from Glyndwr
University in North Wales. After graduating,
Linda set up the animation company, Tiny
Elephants. She is currently collaborating with
Steven Appleby to make films adapted from
Steven’s cartoon strip, Small Birds Singing.
Irina Margolina is an award-winning scriptwriter,
playwright and director, and head of studio M.I.R
in Moscow. Educated at the Moscow University
of Graphic Arts, she is Professor of the University
of Fairfield, Connecticut and Professor of School
of Visual Arts, New York and a member of the
Cinematographers’ Union of Russia and the
Scriptwriters’ Guild.
Stop-motion animator Barry Purves has won
over sixty major international awards, including
Grand Prix, Best Director, Best Film, and OSCAR
and BAFTA nominations. He has also directed
and animated some 70 commercials, title
sequences and animation inserts for films and
pop promos. Barry’s films are known for their
innovation, passion, elegance, lush visuals and
fresh interpretations.
Linda’s graduation film Small Birds Singing
has been screened at a number of festivals
worldwide including Annecy 2008. A Traditional
Christmas at Small Birds Singing was the first
film to be completed at the Tiny Elephants’
Studio in December 2009. The Grand Easter
Egg Hunt was completed in February 2010
and Hinterland in November of the same
year. Hinterland premiered at Edinburgh
International Film Festival in June 2011.
Young Animators Award
Sponsored by
Irina has produced and written scripts for
animated films, directed and produced
documentaries and written scripts for
documentaries, television programs, publicity
films and theatre productions. We are screening
a selection of the numerous programmes and
series in which she has been involved in the
Studio M.I.R retrospective (see page 12 for
details) and The Animated Century documentary
screens on Friday 11 November at 10.30am in
Cubby Broccoli.
A compilation DVD: ‘Barry Purves – His Intimate
Lives’ (Potemkin) was re-released in 2008 and
most recently Barry has been working on two
new films, both of which are screening in competition at this year’s BAF.
‘Plume’ for ARTE France, 2010 (his own film,
featuring a primæval winged man)
‘Tchaikovsky’ for Russian TV, 2011
(an interpretation of the composer’s life)
COMPETITION BAF 49
48 BAF COMPETITION
Thursday 10 November, 12 noon, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Saturday 12 November, 2pm, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Our Land (Nôs Terra)
Poxy’s Life
Dirs. Collective of 15 Children from Congo /
Belgium / 2010 / 6mins
Poxy’s mum is so poor that she’s forced to entrust
the little girl to her aunt. The small cow’s new life
is rough: she doesn’t go to school any more and
her aunt treats her as a slave …
[email protected]
Hedgerow Tales
Dirs. Buchlyvie Primary School / UK / 2010 / 5mins
30sec
A group of hedgerow friends, a bird, mouse, leaf
and family of hedgehogs, sit round a camp fire
telling stories about their lives. 40 children aged
7-11 years created and animated the characters
made from autumn leaves, seed head, cones and
berries. Teasels make great hedgehogs!
[email protected]
Our Land (Nôs Terra)
Dirs: Children and Young People from Cape Verde /
Portugal / 2011 / 6mins 30 sec
“I’m going to tell this story…” – Nôs Terra is an
animated short film, told and experienced by the
children that live in the interior of Santiago Island,
Cape Vert. Through their testimonies, common
experiences are crossed to all who share a place
that waits for rain to fall, because sowing the land
is their source of wealth and subsistence.
[email protected]
I Wish I Went to Ecuador
Postcards from Tenby
Dirs: Gerald Conn, Jane Hubbard / Wales /
2010 / 3mins 39sec
Tenby is a popular tourist destination:
long, sandy beaches, stunning scenery and
many fascinating attractions. The film
explores how to keep Tenby clean, tidy
and environmentally friendly as well as
sustaining local jobs and life for the people
who live there. Made with young people
from Tenby Junior School.
[email protected]
The Circus (O Circo)
Dirs: Collective of Children/ Portugal / 2011 /
7mins 50sec
A fun trip to the circus.
[email protected]
Dirs: Bricknell Primary School/ UK / 2011 /
6mins 2sec
An immersive, animated documentary
taking you into the heart of the Ecuadorian
rainforest. A child’s eye view of a life changing
expedition by their teacher, Mrs Jones and
their joint mission to preserve these vital
forests. Presented in Cinemascope surround
with surround sound.
[email protected]
Poxy’s Life
The Circus
Hedgerow Tales
Hedgerow Tales
PANORAMA BAF 51
50 BAF PANORAMA
Screenings
Panorama 1-3
New Croatian Animation
onedotzero
BAF Kids
BAF Features
Unravel Drop-in Screening
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60
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64
68
PANORAMA BAF 53
52 BAF PANORAMA
Panorama 1
Wed, 9 Nov, 11am, Cubby Broccoli
Fri, 11 Nov, 1pm Cubby Broccoli Cinema
AFONSO HENRIQUES, THE FIRST KING
sleep
Only Once
the lighthouse
the man with the stolen heart
ishihara
Escape his stare (M’echapper de Son Regard)
Dir. Chen Chen / France / 2010 / 3mins 40secs
One day, Mr Wang notices that there’s a rooster
in the marketplace which keeps staring at him…
[email protected]
Goo Goo Babies
Dir. Alexey Alexeev / UK / 2011 / 2mins 7secs
A short animation about what babies do in the
maternity home when adults cannot see them.
[email protected]
The Saga of Biôrn
Dir. Benjamin Kousholt / Denmark / 2011 / 7mins
6secs
Biôrn, an old Viking is determined to reach
Valhalla, the warrior’s afterlife full of excessive
drinking and debauchery. To gain entry he has
to die honorably in battle, but he discovers the
right death isn’t so easy to come by.
[email protected]
The Lighthouse
Dir. Po Chou Chi / Taiwan, USA / 2010 / 7mins
30secs
The story is about parents supporting their
children to make their dreams come true. No
matter what happens, parents will always be
waiting for their children, just like the lighthouse
forever providing lighting for the boats.
[email protected]
The Man With The Stolen Heart
Dir. Charlotte Boulay- Goldsmith / UK / 2011 /
7mins 24secs
The Man With The Stolen Heart is a surreal tale
about a man who wakes up one day only to
discover that his heart has run away. Life losing
all meaning without it, he is forced on a quest.
[email protected]
Scared (Apeuree)
Dir. Patricia Sourdes / France / 2010 / 4mins 50secs
A little girl plagued by her fears and imagination
is developing techniques in order to live anyway:
magical thinking, avoidance... The other could it
be THE solution? [email protected]
Britain
Dir. Bexie Bush / UK / 2011 / 2mins 45secs
Style: Stop Motion
Join Lynn and Eric as a pair of armchairs who
discuss how Britain has changed since they were
young. [email protected]
GOO GOO BABIES
britain
Afonso Henriques, The First King
(Afonso Henriques, O Primeiro Rei)
Dir. Pedro Lino / Portugal / 2010 / 5mins
In the course of five minutes, we’ll be able to
know the life and feats of D. Afonso Henriques,
from the small Portucale County to the Kingdom
of Portugal….
[email protected]
Children’s ITV Animated Idents
Dir. Animated Yorkshire / UK / 2011 / 1 minute
Children’s ITV idents created by Animated
Yorkshire. [email protected]
scared
hendrick
Once Only (A UNICA VEZ)
Dir. Numo Amorim / Portugal / 2010 / 5mins
40secs
If all this were not a lie, if I were awake when I
went there, I wouldn’t have to learn everything
again, every single day. [email protected]
Ishihara
Dir. Yoav Brill / Israel / 2010 / 6mins 4secs
A portrait of the colour blind artist.
[email protected]
Henrick
Dir. Yoonah Nam / UK / 2011 / 5mins
Henrick has worn the same kind of shoes since
he was 7 years old - white ordinary sneakers.
When Henrick wore his 157th white sneaker
marked number 157, the observer (a narrator)
decides to steal Henrick’s sneakers.
[email protected]
Sleep
Dirs. Claudias Gentinetta, Frank Braun /
Switzerland / 2010 / 4mins 9secs
Take a deep breadth before falling asleep forever.
A lullaby with closed eyes for a silent decline.
[email protected]
PANORAMA BAF 55
54 BAF PANORAMA
Panorama 2
Chest of Drawers (Piirongin Piiloissa)
Dir. Sanni Lahtinen / Finland / 2011 /
What is there for a chest to do when a little
mischievous guest messes up her drawers?
[email protected]
The Amazing Elephant Man
Dir. Jonathan Headon / UK / 2011 / 4mins
32secs
Style: 2D, Hand Drawn, Painted, Digitally
Composed
A retired circus performer struggles to be
accepted by society. Tormented by the
neighbourhood residents he finally reaches
the point of despair, which drives him to take
drastic action.
[email protected]
Princesse
Dir. Frederick Tremblay / Canada / 2010 /
11mins
Style: Stop Motion
A woman must decide between a growing
friendship for her husband’s mistress or her
love for an unfaithful man.
[email protected]
las palmas
dead bird
princesse
DEsign
hinterland
the amazing elephant man
the shoemaker
nomads
drama
chest of drawes
Hinterland
Dir. Linda McCarthy / UK / 2010 / 2mins
Style: Stop Motion
Small Birds Singing is besieged by plastic bottles.
Where have they come from? Who is to blame?
As Consommé and Delphinium play croquet,
Spandisman investigates…
[email protected]
Nomads
Dir. Tom Senior / UK / 2011 / 4mins 8secs
A hand-drawn animation which shows the
consequences of being greedy. Four travellers
come to rest in a bountiful land where food
is plentiful. They have the opportunity to live
comfortably but rather than sustain the land they
are overcome by an insatiable desire for more.
[email protected]
Drama (Un Drame)
Dir. Margaux Duseigneur / France / 2011 /
Pavel is a writer. He brings with him Ms
Mourachkina, eager to read her the endless drama
that has just been written.
[email protected]
Dead Bird
Dir. Trevor Hardy / UK / 2011 / 1min 10secs
Style: Stop Motion
Peter gets some advice from a wise old man...
Even though he didn’t ask for it!
[email protected]
Las Palmas
Dir. Johannes Nyholm / Sweden / 2011 / 13mins
Style: Stop Motion
A middle-aged lady on a holiday in the sun tries to
make new friends and have a good time. The role
is played by a one year old girl, the rest of the cast
are marionette puppets. [email protected]
DEsign
Dir. Mihkel Reha / Estonia / 2011 / 5mins
49secs
Style: 2D, Drawn on Paper
A film about a man whose inspiration is
himself. Not satisfied, he starts to create a
more diverse world; he starts thinking outside
the box.
[email protected]
The Shoemaker (O SAPATEIRO)
Dirs. David Doutel, Vasco Sá / Portugal / 2011 /
12mins Style: Stop Motion
A shoemaker wrapped up in memories of his life
and the demands of his job, experiences a crucial
moment in his existence. We accompany him
through an enormous day in his life which will
determine his future.
[email protected]
PANORAMA BAF 57
56 BAF PANORAMA
Panorama 3
late one night
C4
Remembering Formby
Dir. Sue Elliot / UK / 2011 / 5mins 1sec
A brief introduction to Formby PattersonWright: The safest man who ever lived.
[email protected]
remembering formby
THE MAN WHO WAS AFRAID OF FALLING
On the rails (Sur les rails)
Dir. Jérémy Guiter / France / 2011 / 3mins 40secs
An old man sees his life pass in which he made a
decisive choice for the rest of his life.
[email protected]
Late one night
Dirs. Anna Prager, Asaf Shub / Israel / 2010 /
One night in Kishinev, Ivan, a clumsy but good
natured burglar, enters Auntie Tania’s meagre
apartment. She is napping in the drawing room
and awakes without Ivan noticing - quietly
stealing behind his back to the kitchen to
prepare a surprise for the luckless burglar.
[email protected]
bertie crisp
small gamers
on the rails
out on a limb
Small Gamers
Dir. Bruno Collet / France / 2010 / 1min 40secs
Style: Stop Motion
Take part in the latest adventure of the Summer
Olympics! But remember to duck, because ours
fly close to the ground.
[email protected]
The Man Who Was Afraid of Falling
Dir. Joseph Wallace / UK / 2011 / 4mins 28secs
Style: 3D
Ivor’s life is turned upside down after a falling
plant pot sparks a bizarre series of paranoid
reactions. [email protected]
One Second Per Day
Dir. Richard Negre / France / 2011 / 7mins 19secs
Style: Pencil, Ink, Painting on Paper
One second of film, meaning 25 drawings per
day during one year, that’s the goal.
[email protected]
the gentlemans guide to villainy
maska
Bertie Crisp
Dir. Francesca Adams / UK / 2011 / 8mins
Style: 2D, 3D
Bertie Crisp, a half bear, half panda lives in a
caravan park with his sociopathic bunny rabbit
wife, Grace. She is determined to have a baby- the
problem is she wants one immediately, and with
Bertie struggling with the... traditional method,
they turn to plan B - Kidnap!
[email protected]
Out on a Limb
Dir. Falk Schuster / Germany / 2011 / 5mins 9secs
Style: Drawing on Paper, Cut outs, Collage
Leaves are falling all around, colder winds are
arriving and birds are gathering together in
preparation for the journey south. Though
autumn is at an end and winter is imminent,
one bird refuses to accept that this change is
happening. [email protected]
C4
Dir. Lera Mishurova / Israel / 2010 / 5mins
In a desolate bar, a barmen and a waitress play
“Battleship”. But in another reality, the progress of
the game has a fateful result.
[email protected]
The Gentlemans Guide to Villainy
Dir. Aidan McAteer / Ireland / 2010 / 1min 30secs
A brief guide to being bad!
[email protected]
Maska
Dirs. Quay Brothers / Poland / 2010 / 24mins
Style: Stop Motion
Maska is the latest animated film by the Quay
brothers, directors and puppet animators, with
the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki.
Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out
a certain mission. However, she will be forced to
choose between accomplishing the task she was
created for and love.
[email protected]
58 BAF
SCREENINGS
SCREENINGS
Wednesday 9 November, 2.00pm, Pictureville Cinema
Animation has been a serious art
form in Croatia since the 1950s.
Today’s animators draw on this
rich tradition while embracing
new digital technologies and
enriching contemporary life and
culture in the whole region. In this
programme you’ll see the latest crop
of animations coming from Croatia
and which featured at this year’s
prestigious Clermont-Ferrand and
Cannes film festivals.
A brief introduction will be given by
programmer Aline Conti.
My Way (Moj Put)
A story about growing up and maturing, about
anxiety and ambition illustrated through a tale
of shoes.
flower of battle
The Ornament of the Soul (Ornament Duse)
The film visualises a phrase often used as a
figure of speech, each character’s personality
and character depicted as diverse pulsating
ornaments interwoven with their visible aura.
The Room (Soba)
A hotel room. A woman (doll) is waiting for the
call from her lover (doll). His arrival and their
sexual intercourse are like a ritual.
Dove Sei, Amor Mio
Is the comfort of routine and the happiness it
provides enough to keep us slaves forever?
MY WAY
In Chains (U Lancima)
We observe two monsters insulting each other,
a noble weapon auction... Through several
interconnected episodes, this film criticizes
today’s lifestyles.
No Sleep Wont Kill You (Nespavanje Ne Ubija)
What happens when the dream takes control
over reality?
Flower of Battle (Cvijet Bitke)
The Arcadian atmosphere of a hazy underworld
hosts unusual characters: an Illusionist, a
Civil Entity, a Wooden Puppet and a silent, but
dangerous Swordsman.
Dove Sei, Amor Mio
THE ROOM
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SCREENINGS
SCREENINGS
BAF 61
onedotzero - wavelength 10
Thursday 10 November, 9.30pm, Pictureville Cinema
run time approx 79 mins
wavelength 10 serving up radical new takes in
music video – a genre that continues to act as
a playground for breaking new directors and
musicians to make their mark. showcasing
recent classics by critically acclaimed directors
alongside witty lo-fi promos from up-andcoming talent.
anthony francisco schepperd: the music scene /
blockhead / usa 2010 / 05:20
a mind melt of hand-drawn animation and
vivid colour inspired by the blockhead’s latest
album artwork. set amongst the wreckage of
a city, schepperd envisages a society overrun
with tv screens, wild animals. plasticine-brained
mannequins and mechanical spiders.
edouard salier: splitting the atom / massive
attack / france 2010 / 05:20
a tour de force classic. a frozen instant depicting
a shattered monochrome city, where human
life no longer seems to exist. however as we
weave through tower blocks, helicopters and
deconstructed cargo ships, a statuesque beast
is revealed at the centre of the chaos.
zoltán lányi: i’ll have the waldorf salad / amon
tobin ft. bonobo / hungary 2009 / 06:29
inspired by amon tobin’s organic soundtrack,
lányi’s film explores the lifecycle of seemingly
mechanical creatures, whose movement is
natural and fluid but whose appearance is
concealed behind robotic scales of armour.
chris milk + aaron koblin: the johnny cash
project / usa 2010 / 02:51
the directors cut of a globally crowd-sourced
online music video which invited participants to
draw each frame of the video with hauntingly
creative results. inspired by an archive video of
‘ain’t no grave’ - his last ever studio recording
- the project continues to evolve online so be
sure to make your contribution at http://www.
thejohnnycashproject.com/
lim choi [aka fla]: the father / the black skirts /
south korea / 2009 / 03:05
a sad yet familiar picture book story about a
single father and his son. as the boy grows
up their relationship becomes strained as the
father struggles to maintain his authority.
ultimately the son becomes his father,
unwittingly contributing to his demise.
non-format: even your friend / the chap / uk,
usa + norway 2010 / 03:10
this debut music video from collaborators kjell
ekhorn and jon forss takes inspiration from
old-fashioned police identikit’s, mixing the
facial features of the band members along with
a variety of wild animals at a ferocious pace to
comedic effect.
jude greenaway + jolyon greenaway: coffin /
pendulum / uk 2010 / 02:50
a commissioned piece by immersive for the
pendulum world tour, this promo explodes in
a cacophony of machinery, cut to a pumping
drum and bass soundtrack. printers, scanners
and drill bits take on a life of their own in a dark,
science fiction-inspired scenario.
bill sneed: ohio / outside royalty / usa 2010 /
04:19
a folkloric animated paean to exploring
roads less travelled. a truck, inspired by john
steinbeck’s camper, rocinante, drives through
progressively unrealistic environments, as the
surrounding rural ohio state comes to life.
dennis liu: you’ve changed / sia / australia
2009 / 03:12
a charmingly lo-fi promo with a handmade
aesthetic and bouncy soundtrack. sia sings
along to a teen tv talent show line-up in a
cardboard cut-out world, which combines
online games navigation with a karaoke
singalong.
jan van nuenen: scars / basement jaxx ft.
meleka, kelis + chipmunk / netherlands 2009
/ 04:06
as randomly generated, triffid-like plants grow
and mutate, strange insects emerge from
the foliage. this animated exploration of the
relationship between nature and technology,
driven by computer code, rarely seen this was
commissioned as live visuals for the basement
jaxx 2009 tour.
irina dakeva: baby i’m yours / breakbot ft.
irfane / france 2010 / 02:31
an energetic stop frame, aquarelle-painted
music video created out of over 2000
watercolour paintings which were rotoscoped,
then shot in 5d to deliver some retro, multicoloured, disco-infused, french fun.
gabe askew: two weeks / grizzly bear / usa
2009 / 04:25
originally released as an unofficial music promo,
grizzly bear fan askew creates a dazzling, joyous
rollercoaster ride of a video, which draws on an
array of animation styles to tell the story of a
tumultuous romantic relationship.
william stahl: mother / bon homme / denmark
2010 / 04:50
when bon homme pitches video treatments for
his new single to a music video commissioner,
things don’t go as expected… a wry live-action
satire, which pokes fun at the music industry
whilst paying homage to the music video
medium itself by referencing famous promos
and directors – can you spot them all?
kenny frankland: jackin my fresh / black noise
/ uk 2009 / 03:36
features a magical boom box which releases
some rather odd creatures when the track kicks
in. a rapping shrew is joined by a two-legged
rayban-wearing spider and their entourage to
enjoy an upbeat urban street party.
special problems: mmmhmm / flying lotus ft.
thundercat / usa + new zealand 2010 / 03:51
an intergalactic relationship between
thundercat and a woman made of plants. their
strange yet surreally romantic adventure takes
them on a trip through 8-bit worlds and 3d
gaming inspired moonscapes to ultimately
form their own planet in outer space.
yurie rocha + joel tellier: fight / crash karma /
canada 2010 / 03:20
set against a dramatic back-drop of replicated
soviet-era propaganda posters, avatars of the
band members set out to defeat a rock monster
intent on destroying the city. 3d action brings
the characters to life in-amongst the iconic
imagery of the 2d freeze frames.
fluorescent hill: spacious thoughts / n.a.s.a. ft.
tom waits + kool keith / canada 2009 / 04:32
a junkyard city becomes the playground for
kool keith and tom waits, whose distinct
voices are characterized as a singing oil drop
and a sweeping ominous cloud respectively.
surprisingly, this accomplished mixed-media
promo marks the first foray by the directors into
fully animated 3d character design.
ian stevenson + luke seomore: stare into the
sun / graffiti 6 / uk 2009 / 04:00
finishing the programme as it started – with
psychedelic hand-drawn animation, this promo
reveals the world of a strange small man who
embarks on a fantastical feel-good journey
through 70’s style animated worlds with
magical creatures, culminating in a slide down
a rainbow.
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BAF Kids
BAF Kids gives school children and families the opportunity to
catch the latest animated films from around the globe and see
the work of some of our up and coming young animators.
films for children
arrietty
unravel workshop
Official Selection:
Films for Children Unravel Workshop
Saturday 12 Nov, 10.30am
Cubby Broccoli Cinema, £4/£3
A selection of children’s films playing
in competition and battling it out for a
prestigious BAF Award.
Arrietty
Saturday 12 Nov, 12noon
Cubby Broccoli Cinema, £2
14-year-old Sho discovers Arrietty, a
tiny ‘borrower’ who lives in a tiny house
beneath the floorboards and who borrows
things from the adult world. A magical
adaptation of Mary Norton’s children’s
classic The Borrowers by Studio Ghibli,
the much-loved animation studio behind
Ponyo and Howl’s Moving Castle.
Saturday 12 Nov, 12.00 - 5pm
Animation Gallery Landing
Free Drop in workshop
Get creative and produce a collaborative
animation by painting, scratching and drawing
dierctly onto 16mm celluloid film, contributing
to this touring project that has visited over 70
communities in Britain in the last year aiming
to create a 16 hour long film that relates to the
distance between Land’s End and John O’Groats.
Free and open to all ages and abilities
Unravel Screening Saturday 12 Nov 4pm, Cubby Broccoli
Cinema, Free Screening
In November 2010, the National Media
Museum hosted one of the seventy five national
workshops in the creation of Unravel – the
longest hand painted film in Britain where the
public were invited to paint, scratch and directly
manipulate 16mm film. We will be screening
a short edit (one second per mile of Britain)
version of the film, and throughout the festival
the full 16 hours of film created so far will be
screening in the Life On Line Level 7 gallery.
young animators
Lego Animation Workshop
Mini Moving Drawings
Workshop Saturday 12 Nov, 12.00 - 4pm
Cubby Broccoli Landing,
Free Drop in workshop
Bring your drawings to life using the art of
animation to transform one object into another,
you can also get a little help from famous
animator Joanna Quinn.
Films by Young
Animators Award Saturday 12 Nov 2pm
Cubby Broccoli Cinema, £4 / £3
In recognition of the importance of developing
new talent, the winner of the Best Film by
Young Animators Award will be announced at
this special screening on Saturday 14 November.
The shortlisted films will be screened and the
winner presented with their BAF Award.
Young Animators Award
Sponsored by
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Lego Animation Workshop
Saturday 12 Nov, Action Zone 1, £10
10.30 – 12.30pm and 1.30 – 3.30pm
Join professional Animator Jack Lockhart as
he shows you how to bring your favourite
Lego characters to life before you get to play
the part of the director and create your very
own animated movie! £10 per child and
accompanying adult goes free.
DSI Tournament Saturday 12 Nov, 10am – 3pm
Level 1 picnic space, Free
Join us for BAF Game and show off your gaming
skills. Can you make the grand final? Battle your
way through the DSI tournament for a chance
to win a Nintendo DSIXL. Tournaments run
every half hour with one booking per person.
It’s FREE to enter but hurry as places are limited.
We regret that previous DSI winners cannot
take part. For more information and to book call
0844 856 3797.
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Arrietty (Kari-gurashi no Arietti)
2pm, Pictureville Cinema
Saturday 12 November (BAF Kids)
12noon Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Hiromasa Yonebayashi / Japan 2010 / 94mins /
(U) Voices: Mirai Shida, Ryûnosuke Kamiki
14-year-old Sho discovers Arrietty, a tiny
‘borrower’ who lives in a tiny house beneath
the floorboards and who borrows things from
the adult world. A magical adaptation of Mary
Norton’s children’s classic The Borrowers by
Studio Ghibli, the much-loved animation
studio behind Spirited Away, Ponyo and
Howl’s Moving Castle.
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George The Hedgehog
The Animated Century
Friday 11 November
Friday 11 November
10.30am, Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Dirs. Wojtek Wawszczyk, Jakub Tarkowski ,
Tomasz Lesniak / Poland / 2011 / 80 mins.
Dirs. Irina Margolina & Adam Snyder
George the Hedgehog, an inveterate
womanizer, big fan of skateboard and couple
of pints after hours becomes a key point in the
master plan of a genetic manipulations freak.
The crazy scientist hires two deadly enemies of
George, the skinheads, Zenek and Stefan. Their
job is to get hold of George’s genes in order to
create the Hedgehog’s clone and evoke a new
media sensation whereby they can control the
world. Some secret laboratory work and the
clone is born and quickly becomes a multimedia idol, severely complicating George’s life
and ruining his reputation in the meantime. The
Hedgehog fights back for his identity and above
all, the beloved Jola.
George the Hedgehog is based on the hugely
popular Polish underground cult comic „Jez
Jerzy“. It is a juvenile, mad and raucous piece
of animated satire in a charmingly rough style
and spirit all its own. And actually it is a fairly
pointed, and pretty damn entertaining piece of
social satire. Its broad and angry portrayal of a
disaffected youth and a government desperate
to relate to them, gives a telling insight into the
modern world and gives the film a compelling
edge.
“George The Hedgehog joins the likes of Mary
And Max, The Illusionist and My Dog Tulip
in presenting an animated feature that’s a
refreshing alternative from the offerings of
Pixar and Disney.” Screen International
animated century
A entertaining and comprehensive look
at the history of animation worldwide.
Animated characters, the Professor and Horace
demonstrate different animation techniques,
including pin screen, pixillation, rotoscope, and
cutout and puppet animation. They discuss the
most significant animated films of the past
100 years– everything from Emile Reynaud and
Winsor McCay’s early works, to Fleischer, Disney
and Warner Brothers in the United States,
to historically important films from every
continent. Trnka, Svankmajer, Ocelot, Plympton,
Aardman, Servais – they are all included.
Professor Elderberry and Horace were created
by Bill Plympton, America’s most prolific, most
successful independent animator. They were
animated by Konstantin Bronzit, winner of
numerous awards including the 1995 Grand
Prize at the Annecy Animation Festival and
three major prizes at the 1999 Festival.
THE ANIMATED CENTURY is a co-production
between REMBRANDT FILMS in the United
States, AVRORA MEDIA in Germany, and STUDIO
MIR and PRO-KLASS in Russia, in association
with BRAVO and the RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF
CULTURE.
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Unravel
Drop-in Screening
BAF Game
Level 7 Gallery 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 9 - Saturday 12 Nov
In November 2010, the National Media Museum hosted one
of the seventy five national workshops in the creation of
Unravel – the longest hand painted film in Britain where the
public were invited to paint, scratch and directly manipulate
16mm film.
Harking back to the direct animation techniques of Len Lye,
Norman McLaren and Stan Brakhage these marked traces
of multiple authors represent diverse demographics of the
British people wherein each frame of the film represents one
metre in the 874 mile distance between Land’s End and Jon
O’Groats. Sound recordings, interviews and perspectives on
each location have been collected and compiled– mapping
a metaphorical journey through collective memory and
identity. The collaged autobiographical oral accounts
which speak of individual experience in different locations,
times and spaces offer a non-linear, psycho-geographical
exploration of the country made for and by the people
of Britain. Unravel was initiated by Maria Anastassiou,
Chris Paul Daniels, OKO (Mark Pickles and Jo Byrne) and
sound edited by Kelvin Brown. More information at http://
unravelfilm.blogspot.com
A short edit (one second per mile of Britain) version of the
film is screened on Saturday 12 November at 4.00pm in
Cubby Broccoli Cinema, and throughout the festival the full
16 hours of film created so far will be screening in the Life On
Line Level 7 gallery. You’ll also have the chance to contribute
to the final frames of the film at the Unravel drop-in
workshop on Saturday 12 November from 12noon-5.00pm.
Image Metrics: Jay Grenier
Six to Start: Adrian Hon
Hand Circus: Simon Oliver
Unity 3D: Olly Nicholson
Frontier Developments: Mathew Stephson & Nick Rodgers
Play With Learning: Carlton Reeves
Ten24: James Busby
Blitz Games: Nick Adams
Team Bondi: Brendan McNamara
Eurocam: Tony Wills
Panel Discussion: Animation & Graphics in Games
Networking
Machinima Feature: Vlogger
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Unity 3D
Hand Circus
Image Metrics
Image Metrics
Six to Start
Six to Start
Unity 3D
Hand Circus
Image Metrics – Jay Grenier
Image Metrics: Faceware 3.0:
Adrian Hon - Six to Start
New Stories for New Platforms
Simon Oliver –
Founder, Hand Circus
Olly Nicholson – Technical
Developer, Unity 3D
Creating an Immersive Gaming
Experience through Facial Animation
Tuesday 8 November
Lessons Learned from
an Independent Developer
Animate, Iterate, Innovate:
Life Before and After Unity
Tuesday 8 November
Tuesday 8 November
Hand Circus are the makers of the hit Rolando
series of games for the iPhone and Okabu on
the Playstation 3. Simon shares the background
into making their games, how they got started
and what worked well and provides advice for
anyone who wants to get into development –
and wants to stay there.
With over 12 years of experience in the games
industry, Olly has a number of AAA titles
including Split-Second and the MotoGP series in
his domain and during this time he developed
a broad skill set, put to use most successfully
as Technical Artist with Disney’s Black Rock
Studios. Drawing on his many experiences of
working in the games industry, he will talk
about the fragmentation of bigger studios
into smaller indie developers and talk about
the many ways in which iteration can be more
fluent and creative when developers have
control of their own tools.
Tuesday 8 November
11.00am Pictureville Cinema
Image Metrics is the creator of FacewareTM, an
award-winning facial animation technology used
throughout the games, film and entertainment
industries to streamline animation. Jay will
deep-dive into the characteristics of how facial
animation technologies including FacewareTM
create and deliver an immersive experience
for gamers. Attendees will learn about the
different aspects in creating an enhanced gaming
experience, including motion capture & facial
expressions. The presentation will also discuss
an array of new tools for artists and producers
tackling the most demanding of schedules and
rigging processes.
Stories in PC and console games are nothing
new, but handheld and mobile gaming
platforms are more likely to test your reflexes
than your emotional intelligence. Adrian Hon
examines how we might bring extended stories
to these new platforms, who will make these
games and how they will be funded, while
exploring how player-generated stories can gain
wider appeal on the new gaming platforms of
today and tomorrow.
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Frontier Developments
Play with Learning
Ten24
Mathew Stephenson
& Nick Rodgers Frontier Developments
Carlton Reeve –
Founder, Play with
Learning
Cat & Mouse: Animating the animal
kingdom and the Magic Kingdom
Tuesday 8 November
Play with Learning
Matthew Stephenson has been working as a
character animator in the video games industry for
7 years. He most recently took the role of Principal
Animator on Kinect Disneyland Adventures for
Frontier Developments and has also worked on
games such as Kinectimals, Lostwinds: Winter of
the Melodias and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of
the Wererabbit. He is now a freelance animator
based in Aberdeen. Nick Rodgers has been working
as an animator in the games industry for 5 years. He
recently worked as Lead Animator on Kinectimals:
Now with Bears and Kinectimals Mobile at Frontier
Games as well as being a character animator on
Kinect Disneyland Adventures and Namco’s Dead to
Rights: Retribution.
Matthew and Nick will discuss the joys and
challenges involved in creating animation for
Kinectimals and Kinect Disneyland Adventures
Tuesday 8 November
Carlton Reeve is the founder of Play with the
Learning Ltd, an educational media service. He
splits his time between media production and
educational consultancy (research, training
and teaching) in the areas of learning, games,
social media and multiplatform production.
Areas of life ranging from retail to advertising
to education gaze enviously at the gaming
world’s ability to create compelling content.
In this talk by Carlton Reeve, we explore what
makes gaming such an attractive proposition
to other businesses and organisations and
how they are adopting those principles to
make their products and experiences more
attractive. But Carlton also asks the question
whether games are always an appropriate
approach to life’s challenges and wonders
what games are really good for. Ten24
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Motion Capture in Goldeneye
Blitz Games
James Busby –
Founder, Ten24
LA Noire
Bringing Humanity to Games
Wednesday 9 November, 12.00pm
Great Hall, University of Bradford
Eurocom – Motion Capture in
Goldeneye 007 Reloaded
Central to the Kinect experience is making the
player feel like, and inhabit, the character:
Fortunately for Blitz Games, they had a sword
fighting cat hero that played guitar and had an
eye for the ladies. All they had to do was deliver
that experience to the player.
Nick Adams, Design Manager on the Puss In
Boots video game, based on the upcoming
DreamWorks film, speaks passionately and in
depth on the challenges of designing for a new
and radical control method combined with
the responsibilities inherent in working with
a much-loved and iconic character IP. This talk
will discuss, amongst many other topics, the
specific issues around character animation, and
the joys, pains and values of usability testing,
all in pursuit of creating a game that amuses,
enraptures and satisfies its audience.
Brendan explains the processes and pitfalls of
using Motion Scan facial motion capture to
create the hit game LA Noire. From research to
early test footage, filming the actors through to
final result, Brendan explains the process that
brought an unprecedented level of realism and
acting to games, and shares some exclusive
outtakes which didn’t make the final game.
3D: A Brave New World
Designing for a
Radical Control Method
Wednesday 9 November, 11.00am
James began working in the Graphics industry
in 2002 after studying EIMC at Bradford
university. After working at various VFX houses
and games studios he set up his own company
(Ten24) specialising in everything from state of
the art characters for games and visual effects
to technical / medical visualisation and 3D
scanning.
This presentation will cover the relatively new
and exciting world of 3D scanning for the
games and visual effects industry. Using off
the shelf equipment James will demonstrate
the benefits of this hardware when it comes to
creating realistic characters for games and high
res FMV projects
Brendan McNamara –
Founder, Team Bondi
Tony Wills - Lead Motion
Capture Animator, Eurocom
Developments
Nick Adams - Blitz Games
Tony Wills began working in motion capture for
Gremlin way back in 1996. He has been with
Eurocom for the last 7 years and runs their
motion capture studio. Working for Eurocom
he has helped produce mocap for many high
profile titles such as: Pirates of the Caribbean,
Beijing 2008, Dead Space Extraction and
Quantum of Solace.
This talk will take a behind the scenes look
at how motion capture was used to animate
everything from characters, weapons, faces
and vehicles for the latest iteration of the much
loved Goldeneye franchise.
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Panel Discussion In partnership
with Game Republic
Understanding
Motion Capture –
Animation & Graphics in Games;
The Past, Present and Future
10.30am – 12.30pm
Horton Building, University of
Bradford
This concluding session of BAF Game will
consider a brief history of animation and
graphics in games, with a look at where the
industry is heading in the future. Speakers
from throughout BAF Game will take part
in this session and offer personal insights
into their experiences of working in the
industry. The panel will be chaired by Jamie
Sefton of Game Republic.
Jamie has been in the games industry for
more than 12 years, writing for numerous
magazines and websites including EDGE,
Official Nintendo Magazine, GamesMaster
and Official PlayStation Magazine, as well
as being editor of (legendary) magazine
PC Zone. Jamie continues to write about
Fable 3 and is also now Managing Director
games
of northern games network Game
Republic, an organiser of events such as
Games Invest at the Eurogamer Expo, a PR
strategist and games consultant.
www.gamerepublic.net
Choosing the correct tools for the job
In today’s world we have a number of tools
and methods at our disposal with motion
capture, stop motion, CG and traditional
animation being a few of these. How do you
decide however which is the best tool for the
job? In some projects some particular tools
lend themselves more than others. In this
educational workshop we will look at some of
the new advances in motion capture including
real time capture, virtual cameras and virtual
sets. Participants will take part in an interactive
session and learn when these tools should be
applied and when not.
Networking
Atrium, University of Bradford
A drinks and networking event will follow
the Animation and Graphics in Games panel
discussion.
Vlogger
Vlogger
Director and scriptwriter: Ricard Gras, Producer:
David Matamoros (Zentropa Spain), Associate
producer: Luis de la Madrid (Cine de Garage),
Production manager: Claudia Salcedo, Editing:
Jordi López, DOP: Kim Gázquez, Music: Óscar
Kaiser, Art: Esther Bieto, Sound: Andrea Aínsa
Cast: Tània: Irina Sanjeevan, Frank: Eduard
Alexandre, Àngel: Roger Batalla, Kendrick:
Nico Baixas
Running Time; 63mins
Tania is a young computer expert born in
Barcelona, daughter to immigrants, who’s
conducting a research about online worlds. After
the death of both her parents, her twin brother
Osman is the only family she has left... but he
has been missing for months. Osman eventually
contacts Tania through an avatar, as she explores
a virtual world but refuses to reveal his actual
location. Soon Tania gathers information that
suggests that his brother has been recruited by
a dangerous terrorist group, about to carry out a
mission. What started in the virtual world starts
to have real life consequences...
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
Vlogger raises issues related to the internet,
as well as the exclusion mechanisms
present in western society.
This experimental film gives us access to
Tania’s life by means of showing the vlog
entries (videodiary) that she records for her
research. Vlogger mixes videos shot with
webcams and cell phones (live action) with
animation created inside virtual worlds
(machinima). This concept also has a strong
transmedia element since it attempts
to give viewers access to the virtual
set in which the movie was shot (visit
vloggerthemovie.net for more details).
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BAF GLOBAL CHILL
On Friday the 11th of November, between
the 9pm and 2am, at the Spice Lounge in
Little Germany, the Bradford Animation
Festival Global Chill is your chance to
party. (for directions to find the venue, see
the website). The event costs £2, but is
totally free for anybody attending
Bradford Animation Festival events.
You’ve seen the films, you’ve participated
in workshops, and you’ve given your all in
question-answer sessions. Now is your
chance to get animated through dance.
With world beats, dubstep, bhangra, funk,
hip hop, drum and bass, techno, house, and
any other worldwide grooves you can
possibly think of, mix and mingle with
industry professionals, students, and other
delegates between 9pm and 2am.
The BAF Global Chill is part of
LunaMatik Festival 2011, the North of
England’s all-encompassing seasonal arts,
music, science and food festival happening
in towns, cities and villages across the
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vast array of gigs, exhibitions and
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which next occurs between the 21st of
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artistic flair and creative positivity in
Yorkshire and the North West of England.
Animation and game design sit handin-hand with the grass-roots music,
arts and craft projects we support. As
part of the festival, we are celebrating
the launch of a brand-new youth
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Road, Bradford, which will include a
state of the art music studio and a
creative hub for young people.
Based in Bradford, taking place from the
New Moon to the Full Moon, LunaMatik
takes in the entire spectrum of creativity,
from more offbeat Halloween events
through to ghost walks, gigs, concerts,
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Festival Ident
and Animated Sting
A film by Steven Appleby & Linda McCarthy
Music & Sound Design by Paul J Rogers
Stop motion lighting by Joe Dembinski
Digital compositing by Jeremy Richard
STEVEN APPLEBY has created cartoon strips for
many newspapers including The Guardian, The
Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit,
The Sunday Telegraph and The Observer. His
other works include the animated television
series Captain Star; the musical play Crocs In
Frocks (with Teresa Early & Roger Gosling); over
20 books, including Mr Concerned’s Talking
Book of Home Therapy and Jim – the Nine
Lives Of A Dysfunctional Cat; the series, Steven
Appleby’s Normal Life, for BBC Radio 4, as well
as paintings, prints and ceramics for numerous
group and one-man exhibitions.
Steven is currently drawing the cartoon
strip Loomus for The Guardian; making an
art installation; writing his first novel and
contributing to a series of animated films
(made by Linda McCarthy of Tiny Elephants
Ltd) based on his cartoon strip Small Birds
Singing. His latest book, The Coffee Table Book
Of Doom (with Art Lester), will be published by
Square Peg on 3 November 2011 and Steven
will be signed copies of his book on Thursday 10
November at 5.30pm in Pictureville Bar.
He lives, works and daydreams in South London.
Linda McCarthy is a film maker specialising
in stop-motion animation. She has made and
exhibited ceramics, written and performed
marionette shows, and in November 2007
received a BA in Animation from Glyndwr
University in North Wales. After graduating,
Linda set up the animation company, Tiny
Elephants. She is currently collaborating with
Steven Appleby to make films adapted from
Steven’s cartoon strip, Small Birds Singing.
Festival Team
Festival Director Deb Singleton
Festival Producer
Fozia Bano
Film Sales Executive
Jennifer Hall
Film Festival Assistant
Rebecca Hill
Film Manager
Kathryn Penny
BAF Game Consultant
Tom Woolley
BAF Game Programmer
Judah Smith
Senior Development Exec Jodie Marsh
Projection Manager
Duncan McGregor
Projectionist Tony Cutts
Projectionist
Roger Brown
Projectionist John Cahill
Projectionist Symon Culpan
Projectionist Allan Foster
Projectionist
Jennifer Weston-Beyer
Projectionist
Dave Chambers
Projectionist
Andrew Walker
Projectionist
Raymond Hattrell
IMAX Theatre Manager
Dick Vaughan
Senior Press Officer
Caroline Joynson
Press Officer Rachel McWatt
Marketing Executive Sophie Choudry
Designer
Janet Qureshi
Web Content Coord. Emma James
Web Producer
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Web Design Maraid Design
Media Developer
Emma Shaw
Media Edit Assistant
Simon Lawson
Audience Develop. Coord.
Mandy Tennant
Community Learning
Programme Coordinator
Elaine Richmond
Explainer/Developer
Rachel Preston
Explainer
Sheryl Clowes
Explainer Gina Cooke
Explainer Kersti Fourcin
Explainer John Darnbrough
Explainer Katie Logan
Festival Archivist
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Thank you
A huge thank you to everyone that
helped make this year’s BAF possible…
All the special guests, speakers and jury
members. All Museum Staff and Festival
Volunteers
Steven Appleby, Linda McCarthy,
Paul Wells, Andy Chong, Jez Stewart,
Michele Sutton, Clare Lamkin, Bradford
College, Ian Palmer, Mark Goodliff,
Claire Chamley, Mat Overton, Karl Abson at
the University of Bradford, Tammy Longley
at Jurys Inn, Bradford, Gary and Cat Jackson,
Jay Arnold & Screen Yorkshire, Jamie Sefton
at Game Republic, Alan Gilbey, Curtis Jobling,
Barry Purves, Joanna Quinn.
Festival information
National Media Museum
www.baf.org.uk
Box Office 0844 856 3797
University of Bradford
Bradford, West Yorkshire. BD7 1DP
www.brad.ac.uk
Some of the BAF Game talks will take place in
the Great Hall at the University, just a short 5
minute walk from the Museum. Please ask at
the delegate registration desk in the Museum
foyer for more details on University events.
Great Victoria Hotel
Bridge Street, Bradford. BD1 1JX
01274 728 706
www.tomahawkhotels.co.uk
Tickets & Passes
Event Admission
Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1 1NQ
www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk
Box Office 0844 856 3797
Animation Pass - entitles you to free tickets
(subject to availability) to all BAF 2011
animation screenings, events and parties.
Game Pass - entitles you to free tickets (subject
to availability) to all BAF 2011 GAME screenings,
events and parties.
PLEASE NOTE: Workshops must be
booked and paid for separately.
To gain entry to an event you must have a
ticket. To pick up additional tickets during the
Festival please ask at the Box Office. If you
have a delegate pass but don’t have a ticket
you can queue outside and will be allowed in
five minutes before depending on availability.
Latecomers admitted at the management’s
discretion.
Single Ticket Prices
Screen Talks/Events
Feature Films/Panel Discussions
Game / Awards / Retrospectives
Competition/Panoramas
Workshops
ALL TICKET HOLDERS MUST BE IN THEIR SEATS
5 MINUTES BEFORE THE EVENT IS DUE TO
START OR RISK LOSING THEIR PLACE. Delegates
must have their pass visible at all times.
Pictureville Cinema Ground Floor
Pictureville Cinema, the National Media
Museum’s main auditorium (306 seats), is host
to screenings and major special events at BAF.
The projection and sound system are secondto-none.
Cubby Broccoli Cinema Floor 1
Named in memory of Cubby Broccoli, the
producer of the James Bond films, Cubby
Broccoli Cinema (108 seats) is a more intimate
space, so is more widely used for showcases
and screenings.
Room at the Top
The Museum’s conference suite, Room at
the Top (85 seats) is used predominantly for
workshops and masterclasses. This is a private
area. Please ask a member of staff or a BAF
volunteer if you require access.
Internet Access
Free, wireless internet will be available in both
Pictureville Bar and the Café during the Festival.
www.facebook.com/BradfordAnimationFestival
Twitter: @osgoodBAF
#BAFest
iPhone app: Check our film times on a free
application. Search “National Media Museum”
at the iTunes store.
£10/£7 conc.
£6.75/£5 conc
£6.75/£5 conc
£4/£3 conc
£15
BAF 2011 Index
www.baf.org.uk Box Office 0844 856 3797
366 Days
35
a.maize
40
Abuelas
35
Acorn Boy (Ziluks)
44
Adrian Hon
70
Afonso Henriques, The First King
53
Alan Gilbey
16
Amazing Elephant Man, The
54
Andy Schmidt
4,5
Animate, Iterate, Innovate
71
Animated Britain:
Selections from Collections
18,19
Animated Century Documentary
12, 67
Animated Yorkshire Screenings
17
Arrietty
64
Art and Evolution of Animation Layout 21
BAF Awards Ceremony
24,28
BAF Awards Reception
24
BAF Closing Night Party
24
BAF Game
69-77
BAF Game: Panel Discussion
76
BAF Game: Networking
76
BAF Ident & Sting
88
BAF Jury
28,29
BAF Kids
62,63
BAFter Hours
24
Barry Purves:
Frame by Frame, Note by Note
10,11,46
Bertie Crisp
57
26
Backwater Gospel, The
36
Book Signings
24
Box, The
36
Brandt Rhapsodie
31
Brendan McNamara
75
Bridge Chronicles, The
35
Britain
53
C4
57
Caffeine
39
Captain Hu
31
Carlton Reeve
72
Cartoon Network ID Bumpers
40, 43
Character Animation Workshop
22
Chase, The
43
Chest of Drawers
54
Children’s ITV Ident
17,53
Circus, The
21
Compare the Market
40
Curtis Jobling
16
Damned
35
Daring to be Disney
72
Dead Bird
54
DEsign
54
Discarded
36
Dodu, The Cardboard Boy
44
Drama
54
El Macho
35
Escape His Stare
53
Eurocom
75
Image Metrics: Faceware 3.0
70
Fast and Furious Cartoon Quiz
24
Fraser MacLean
21
Game Republic
76
Gentleman’s Guide to Villianry, The
57
George The Hedgehog
67
Girl and the Hunter, The
31
Girl Effect, The
40
Golden Bird, The
35
Goo Goo Babies
53
Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill
39
Green Design Festival 2010
43
Growing Space
35
Hand Circus
71
Hedgerow Tales
21
Heldenkanzler
36
Henrick
53
Hermit
40
Hinterland 54
21
70
Introduction to the
Ray Harryhausen Display
19
Irina Margolina:
Studio M.I.R Retrospective
12,46
Ishihara
53
It Lives! It Lives,
the reanimation of Frankenstein’s Cat
16
Itch of the Golden Nit, The
44
James Busby
74
Joanna Quinn - Life Drawing Workshop 23
John & Betty
36
Journey to the Sunflower Fields
36
Karin Vandenrydt
29
Las Palmas
54
Last Belle, The
21
Last Journey, The
40
Laszlo
36
Late One Night
21
Life Well Seasoned, A
36
Lifetime Achievement Award:
Geoff Dunbar
6,7
Lighthouse, The
53
Linda McCarthy
46,88
Little Miss Little
39
Lost Town of Switez, The
32
LunaMatik: Bradford Global Chill
25
Mainframe
17
Maker, The
32
Making A Show A Show
Developing the Animated Series 22
Man who was Afraid of Falling, The
57
Man with the Stolen Heart, The
53
Manege Magique
43
Marvin
44
Maska
57
Mini Moving Drawings
62
Miss Daisy Cutter
39
Monsieur William
39
Monster of Nix, The
31
Morning Stroll, A
31
Neil Boyle
21
58,59
Nick Adams
74
Nomads
54
Nullarbor
32
Official Selection: Commercials
40
Official Selection:
48
Official Selection: Films For Children
44
Official Selection: Music Videos
39
Official Selection: Professional 1
31
32
Official Selection: Student 1
35
36
On the Rails
57
Once Only
53
One Second Per Day
57
onedotzero: wavelength 10
60,61
Opening Night Film: The Ugly Duckling14,15
Opening Night Reception
14
Our Land
48
Out of Erasers (Sudd)
32
Out on a Limb
57
Panorama 1
53
Panorama 2
54
Panorama 3
57
Paul Gravett
8,9
Paul Wells
6
Pete Bishop
28
43
Plume
31
48
Poxy’s Life
48
Princesse
54
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan 20
Remembering Formby
57
Renter, The
36
Richard McGuire in conversation
8,9,29
Roy Naisbitt
21
Saga of Biôrn, The
53
Scared 53
Scott Caple
21
Seige (Coke), The
40
Shoemaker, The
54
Simon Oliver
71
Sleep
53
Small Gamers
57
Specsavers Happy
43
Steven Appleby
88
Strings
36
Swimming Pool
35
Tchaikovsky- An Elegy
32
Tenacity and Talent –
How to survive and thrive in animation 25
43
Tiger
44
Tinga Tinga Tales 44
Understanding Motion Capture
23
Unravel
63,68
Visit, The
35
Vlogger
77
Waterwalk, The
39
Wax Tailor Feat.
Charlie Winston - I Own You
39
BAF Game
BAF Animation
Diary 2011
Tuesday 8 November 2011
Wednesday 9 November 2011
Time
Event
10:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
13:45
14:45
15:30
15:45
16:30
19:30
Delegate Registration & ticket collection
Museum Foyer
Level 7 Gallery
Pictureville
Adrian Hon, Six to Start
Pictureville
Lunch
Hand Circus
Pictureville
Animate, Iterate, Innovate Pictureville
Break Daring to be Disney
Pictureville
Carlton Reeve: Play with Learning
Pictureville
Machinima Feature Screening: Vlogger
Cubby Broccoli
Venue
End Time Page
18:00
12:00
13:00
13:45
14:45
15:30
15:45
16:30
17:15
20:35
68
70
70
71
71
72
72
77
Wednesday 9 November 2011
10:00
10:00
10.30
11.00
12:00
13:00
13:30
15:00
15:45
16:00
17:00
20:00
Museum Foyer
Level 7 Gallery
Understanding Motion Capture Workshop
Horton Building
James Busby, Ten24
Great Hall
Nick Adams, Blitz Games Great Hall
Lunch
Brendan McNamara, Team Bondi Great Hall
Eurocom: Motion Capture in Goldeneye
Great Hall
Break
Panel Discussion
Great Hall
Networking
Atrium
BAF 2011 Official Selection Student Films 1 Cubby Broccoli
18:00
12:30
12:00
13:00
13:30
15:00
15:45
16:00
17:00
18:00
21:00
68
23
74
74
75
75
76
76
35
www.baf.org.uk
Box Office 0844 856 3797
Time
Event
Venue
09:30
10:00
10:30
11:00
11:00
12:30
12:30
13:15
14:00
14:00
15:30
16:00
17:00
17:30
18:15
18:30
19:30
20:00
20:15
Understanding Motion Capture Workshop
Panorama 1
Panorama 2
Book Launch: Ray Harryhausen’s
New Croatian Animation Panorama 3
Official Selection: Music Videos/Commercials
Animated Britain: Selections from Collections
BAFter Hours
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Opening Night Reception
Official Selection: Student Films 1
Opening Night Film: The Ugly Duckling
Museum Foyer
Level 7 Gallery
Horton Building, U of B
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Museum Book Shop
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Bar
Pictureville Cinema
Museum Foyer
Pictureville Cinema
End Time Page
18:00
12:30
12.15
12.10
13.35
13.35
13:45
15:30
15.05
16:30
17.30
18:05
18:30
20:00
19:30
20:15
21:00
21:45
68
23
31
53
35
54
24
58
57
39,40
18,19
32
24
20
36
14
35
14,15
Museum foyer
Level 7 Gallery
Pictureville Cinema
Cubby Broccoli
Action Zone 1
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Bar
Pictureville Bar
Pictureville Cinema
Games Lounge
Pictureville Cinema
18:00
11:35
11:30
13:00
13:00
12:40
15:35
15:05
16:30
18:00
18:15
18:30
18:30
20:30
19:45
21:05
21:30
23:00
22:35
68
32
39,40
22
36
48
64
35
17
12
44
24
24
8,9,29
31
57
24
60,61
32
Thursday 10 November 2011
09:30
10:00
10:30
10:30
10:30
12:00
12:00
14:00
14:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
17:30
17:30
18:30
18:30
20:00
20:30
21:30
21:30
Character Design Workshop
Official Selection: Films by Young Animators
Feature: Arrietty
Animated Yorkshire Screenings
Irina Margolina: Studio M.I.R. Retrospective
Official Selection: Films for Children
BAFter Hours
Book Signing: Steven Appleby Richard McGuire in conversation
Panorama 3
Fast and Furious Cartoon Quiz
onedotzero: wavelength 10
BAF Animation
Friday 11 November 2011
Time
Event
Venue
09:30
10:00
10:30
10:30
11:00
12:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
14:30
16:00
16:00
16:30
17:30
18:00
18:00
18:30
19:30
20:30
21:00
21:00
Official Selection: Professional Films 1
The Animated Century
Introduction to Ray Harryhausen Display
Mainframe
Tenacity and Talent – Networking Event
Panorama 1
Andy Schmidt – Pixar
Joanna Quinn – Life Drawing Workshop
It Lives! It Lives! – Reanimating... BAFter Hours
Book Signing: Curtis Jobling
Panorama 2
Barry Purves: Frame by Frame, Note by Note
Feature: George The Hedgehog + short
LunaMatik: Bradford Global Chill
Museum foyer
Level 7 Gallery
Pictureville Cinema
Insight Lobby
Pictureville Cinema
Room at the Top
Pictureville Cinema
Room at the Top
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Bar
Pictureville Bar
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Cinema
Cubby Broccoli
The Spice Lounge
End Time Page
18:00
11:45
12:30
11:30
13:30
14:30
14:10
16:00
15:35
17:05
19:00
18:00
18:30
18:30
19:05
20:00
20:30
22:15
22:00
02:00
68
31
67
20
17
25
53
4,5
35
32
23
16
24
24
54
10,11
36
67
39,40
25
Museum foyer
Level 7 Gallery
Level 1 Picnic Space
Action Zone 1
Pictureville Cinema
Cubby Broccoli Landing
Level 5 Landing
Room at the Top
Pictureville Cinema
Action Zone 1
Pictureville Cinema
Pictureville Bar
Pictureville Bar
Museum Foyer
Pictureville Cinema
Great Victoria Hotel
18:00
15:00
11:45
12:30
12:30
13:35
16:00
17:00
14:30
15:00
15:30
15:00
17:30
17:00
18:00
18:30
19:30
22:00
01:00
68
63
44
63
6,7
64
62
62
22
26
63
48
21
63
24
24
24
24,28
24
Saturday 12 November 2011
09:30
10:00
10:00
10:30 10:30
11:00
12:00
12:00
12:00
12:00
13:00
13:30
14:00
15:30
16:00
17:30
17:30
19:00
19:30
22:00
BAF Kids: DSI Tournament
BAF Kids: Films for Children
BAF Kids: Lego Animation Workshop
Lifetime Achievement Award: Geoff Dunbar
BAF Kids: Arrietty BAF Kids: Mini Moving Drawings
BAF Kids: Unravel Workshop
Making A Show A Show Beyond Anime: CALF Animation
BAF Kids: Lego Animation Workshop
BAF Kids: Films By Young Animators Award
Unravel Screening
Book Signing: Fraser MacLean
BAFter Hours
BAF Awards Reception
BAF Awards Ceremony
BAF Closing Night Party
All programme information is correct at time
of going to print. All timings are approximate.

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