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Animac 2010, the 14th International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia, will be held in Lleida from 22nd to 28th February with the support of the Institut Municipal d’Acció Cultural (IMAC) of Lleida City Council and the Institut Català d’Indústries Culturals (ICIC) of the Government of Catalonia.
Animac is a non-competitive animation festival aimed at artists who use animation as an instrument of personal expression and which, after 14 years, has been established as one of the most important audiovisual events in the country and worthy of international prestige for its rigor, dynamism and independent character.
This year, Animac moves to La Llotja de Lleida, an emblematic building in the city with modern facilities for the screening of the films.
Animac 2010 has two special guests, the brothers Stephen and Timothy Quay, widely internationally recognised creators of animated film, who will be in Lleida participating personally in the activities and has programmed a retrospective of their work.
The support for independent film and talent continues to be one of the characteristic features of Animac, which is expanding its programme of events with two new activities focused on encouraging new projects and creators: Animac Campus and Animac Mentors.
Animac 2010 will offer, for one week, animated film screenings, school sessions, concerts and exhibitions.
You can download the poster, stills from programmed films and photographs of Animac 2009 from:
http://www.lacosta.cat/ca/premsa/animac-2010/">lacosta.cat
Animac is the International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia, organised by the Institut Municipal d’Acció Cultural (IMAC) of Lleida City Council and the Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals (ICIC) of the Government of Catalonia, to be held from 22nd to 28th February in the city of Lleida for the 14th consecutive year.
With the passage of years, the Animac festival has consolidated its independent and artistic character. Created in 1996, during its almost 14 year history it has established itself as one of the most important audiovisual events in the country with an important international presence and prestige.
Today, Animac is a rigorous, dynamic and welcoming festival continually making efforts to improve year after year, generating new audiences and always available to all lovers of animation. Animac is a non-competitive animation film festival aimed at artists who use animation as an instrument of personal expression. Going beyond and questioning the limits of traditional narrative, it seeks visionary, independent and daring works that encourage and enrich the expressive capacity of cinema.
Animac is a place where artists and their works come together, a laboratory in which ideas are generated and relations are established between the different artistic disciplines. Animac is the space in which the stories of the future are dreamed and screened.
This year, Animac has received the Audiovisual National Culture Award 2009. The awards were instituted by the Catalan government in 1982 and are granted annually to people or entities for the most relevant contributions or activities in each of the respective cultural fields carried out during the previous year.
An event centred on the creator
Throughout these years, Animac has been very well received by filmmakers for its commitment to celebrating good animation film and its creators. This means that the festival is very well placed in the new era in which the main asset of the industry is talent and content.
Animac returns to the city that has always welcomed it with new proposals and contents and the same aim. Because it continues to defend the idea that animated film requires the commitment, support and work of many people but that it is very difficult for good productions to emerge without the skill of people who have the gift of generating worlds and discourses, of discovering universal emotions within themselves.
With this in mind, two new activities are born. On the one hand, Animac Campus, which for the first time offers students of art, film and animation the possibility of sharing some days with study companions, generating networks of complicity, meeting animation professionals, participating in workshops, enjoying film screenings, concerts and shows. On the other, the Animac Mentors programme is born, aimed at those creators, entrepreneurs, animators, etc. who have an animation project under development. The objective of this new programme is to accompany and encourage the conception of quality animation projects, while offering the creators the opportunity to take risks. Animac Mentors enables the selected participants to analyse their work, suggests ways of improving their projects and accompanies them in the creation of networks of complicity.
A festival of international prestige
The international visibility of Animac has allowed it to overcome the limits of its usual host city and develop some of its projects in other countries: South Korea, China, Taiwan, India, Germany, Hungary, Kosovo, Scotland, Italy, Brazil, Colombia... The festival has travelled all over the world showing the best animation film and promoting its creators. This is why Animac has a solid and excellent international network of accomplices and preceptors (animators and other professionals, former participants of Animac, frequent festival goers...).
Among the participants and accomplices of Animac are the extraordinary brothers Stephen and Timothy Quay, two of the most original and renowned creators of world animation film, and who will be the special guests of this 14th festival.
Born in Pennsylvania in 1947, the Quay brothers (twins) studied illustration in Philadelphia before entering the Royal Academy of Arts in London, where they began making their first shorts in the 1970s. Since then, they have lived and worked in the British capital, where they have developed their unique and innovative projects under the umbrella of Koninck Studios. Their work is characterised by their passion for detail, an impressive command of colour and texture, and a use of camera focus and movement that can be defined as “imprudent” and makes all of their films unique and easily recognisable immediately. They are known for the classic film of 1986 “Street of Crocodiles”, which the film director Terry Gilliam recently chose as one of the 10 best animation films of all time.
Presentation of Animac 2010 in Barcelona.
Animac 2010 gets underway in Barcelona with the presentation of the festival programme and a special session, 100 per 100 Animation, with some of the creators of the film “Panique au Village”. One of the most anticipated events of the year! Thus, on 19th February, Animac welcomes in the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) the members of the Belgian production company Beast Animation, co-producers and members of the animation team of the feature film by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar.
During a 60 minute session, these animators from Brussels will be in open conversation with the director of Animac, Isabel Herguera, where they will explain and show how “Panique au Village” was made and the production mechanisms of an animation film, including what happens behind the camera and how the stop motion technique is used.
For more information, please contact:
La Costa Comunicació
Sandra Costa – Emma Quadrada
sandra@lacosta.cat
emma@lacosta.cat
+34 93 310 38 88
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