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SUMMARY:International Student Animation Festival [2025]
DESCRIPTION:\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n\nInternational Student Animation FestivalTHE RETURN\n\n\n\nOne Ticket – All Day\n\n\n\nSix Screenings\n\n\n\nSix Talks\n\n\n\nThe disruptions of the last few years forced some very difficult decisions upon us and perhaps the hardest was having to pause our annual spotlight on the world of international student animation. BUT IT’S BACK! This year we happily relaunch a mini festival-within-a-festival dedicated entirely to the dynamic world of student animation. In a day dedicated to watching AND talking we have pulled together three fabulous, short programs for films from some of the best schools in the world and we’re busy assembling a roster of way-cool guests and presenters to come in to share their work, tell their stories and pass on their advice. So whether you’re in the bar, the foyer or the cinema there will always be something going down.\n\n\n\nCHOOSE YOUR OWN SCHEDULE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJump to a program\n\n\n\nInternational Student Competition Program #1 ( #Program1 )\n\n\n\nInternational Student Competition Program #2 ( #Program2 )\n\n\n\nInternational Student Competition Program #3 ( #Program3 )\n\n\n\nConversation #1: Turning Our Grad Film Project Around [to be confirmed] ( #Conversation1 )\n\n\n\nConversation #2: To Be Announced ( #Conversation2 )\n\n\n\nConversation #3: Sarah Balanger, Maker of “Rushmore” (ESMA – France) ( #Conversation3 )\n\n\n\nConversation #4: Nailing The Perfect Fight Scene – Ollie Wilson (VCA – Aus) ( #Conversation4 )\n\n\n\nConversation #5: Building Worlds – Gabriella Lee Sudyatmiko (RMIT – Aus) ( #Conversation5 )\n\n\n\nConversation #6: How We Made A Finnish Heavy Metal Music Video ( #Conversation6 )\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n↑ ( #top )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInternational Student Competition Program #1\n\n\n\nSo Long Gropius – Bertille Rondard\n\n\n\nSo Long GropiusBertille RondardFrance, 4’19, 2024A young girl becomes friends with a strange lizard and in the process finds herself stepping into a whole new world.(La Poudriere)\n\n\n\nDare To Be Fabulous – Joao Buosi, et al\n\n\n\nDare To Be FabulousJoao Buosi, Yangjia Chen, Adam Meziane Philipps, Carla Sampaio Da Silva, Xinxin Qin, Zhen ZhouFrance, 6’04, 2024To prove himself to his gangster father, Alessandro decides to rob a bar but inside that bar resides a surprise he could never, ever imagine.(Gobelins)\n\n\n\nHello, Headquarters – Zuzanna Heller\n\n\n\nHello, HeadquartersZuzanna HellerPoland, 5’00, 2025An elderly man wants to report his wife’s disappearance but there are barriers beyond his imagination to conquer.(Lodz Film School)\n\n\n\nThe Sound Of Raindrops – Julie Blanc, et al\n\n\n\nThe Sound Of RaindropsJulie Blanc, Estelle Jourdan, Elena Forlini, Gabriel Riera, Lila Trouve, Max Banse, Alvaro DeolioFrance, 7’00, 2024Two young brothers separated by parental conflicts find themselves in the heart of a violent storm they can only overcome together.(Ecole Georges Méliès)\n\n\n\nBon Apetit – Wang Ziyu, Yu Jinhong\n\n\n\nBon Apetit!Wang Ziyu, Yu JinhongChina, 4’34, 2024In a garden of shimmering colours and ever-changing dimensions, a sheep attracted by a unique purple flower embarks on an unusual mealtime.(CUC – Communication University of China)\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n↑ ( #top )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInternational Student Competition Program #2\n\n\n\nSesame – Alix de Clerck, Alice Diop\n\n\n\nSesameAlix de Clerck, Alice DiopFrance, 5’49, 2024A woman dies of a sesame allergy and, to add insult to injury, in the ultimate twist has to mourn her own death.(Atelier de Sevres)\n\n\n\nThe Deep Above-First Hunt – Niklas Wolff\n\n\n\nThe Deep Above-First HuntNiklas WolffGermany, 5’00, 2024Across a vast ocean stretching towards infinity a colony suffer in endless darkness. Will they dare to steal the light from the godlike Lumathans?(Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)\n\n\n\nTargeted – Ruby Meades, et al\n\n\n\nTargetedRuby Meades, Chris Popham, Jessica Steininger, Bella Ranstead, Mihaly Csordas, Eyessa Gentle, Billie ClementNew Zealand, 1’36, 2024In the not too distant future, when the targeted ads just won’t go away, one guy decides enough is enough – it’s game on!(Southern Institute of Technology)\n\n\n\nSphere Supreme – Hasan Pastaci\n\n\n\nSphere SupremeHasan PastaciBelgium, 5’00, 2024Guided by a mystical pomegranate tree Arama encounters parts of himself he must try and put together to establish a new identity.(KASK)\n\n\n\nQuasar – Theodora Pittaluga\n\n\n\nQuasarTheodora PittalugaFrance, 4’54, 2024During a mission at the borders of a distant planetary system, the astronaut Yoko loses the lucky charm she holds dearly.(Atelier de Sevres)\n\n\n\nNRUT – Sophia Schonborn\n\n\n\nNRUTSophia SchonbornGermany, 4’33, 2024If you’ve always stood still, how do you know if you’re going to get dizzy? Muncu is about to find out.(Filmuniversity Babelsberg Konrad Wolf)\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n↑ ( #top )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInternational Student Competition Program #3\n\n\n\nPoppy Flowers – Evridiki Papaiakovou\n\n\n\nPoppy FlowersEvridiki PapaiakovouEstonia, 4’24, 2024Remembering is a fluid affair. A daughter tries to reconcile with her mother through memories of their shared rituals.(Estonian Academy of Arts)\n\n\n\nItch – Maggie Zeng\n\n\n\nItchMaggie ZengCanada, 2’29, 2024As Manon impatiently waits for her date to arrive an uncontrollable itch begins to overtake her.(Concordia University)\n\n\n\nHow To Make A Friend – Jinfei Ge, et al\n\n\n\nHow To Make A FriendJinfei Ge, Bin He, Myrtille Huet, Julie Jarrier-Stettin, Yuqiang ZhangFrance, 7’16, 2024Moo mourns her deceased friend, so Yuu decides to create a new companion for her.(Gobelins)\n\n\n\nCore – Yu-Hsiang Chen\n\n\n\nCoreYu-Hsiang ChenRepublic Of China, 6’30, 2024A robot strives to rewrite its own past, and in the transition finds the courage to break free from life’s constraints.(National Formosa University)\n\n\n\nSunscreen – Xinzhi Ma, Yuan Liu, Yufan Chen, Zixiao Yue\n\n\n\nSunscreenXinzhi Ma, Yuan Liu, Yufan Chen, Zixiao YueFrance, 6’22, 2023After an eternity trapped in a space station after a catastrophic accident Zora begins to hallucinate as she confronts the world around her.(Gobelins)\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n↑ ( #top )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConversation #1: Anatomy Of A New Film\n\n\n\n“A creature fearing its mortality slays the animals of the forest, it’s only way of staying alive, as a Healer watches on in despair, struggling to keep everyone alive.”\n\n\n\nThere’s a tagline, some concept art and an early version of an animatic but this new film is barely off the drawing board. Melbourne based student Jye Di Giorgio connected with Adelaide based Dusk Fawx Studio to get this film made…. mostly “just because we want to”.\n\n\n\nHere at MIAF HQ we don’t know much more than that which is why we’ve invited them to sit down and tell us all about it. This is an opportunity to learn how a young animator still at university gets a chance to work on a new studio supported film and to ask them lots and lots of questions about how they plan to do it.\n\n\n\nThe idea is we’ll be inviting them back next year to show us the result. Here’s your chance to get in on the ground floor.\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n↑ ( #top )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConversation #2:  Feedback Is Everything\n\n\n\nWhile studying animation Kelly Gilkes found herself as the lead artist of an indie game company. This talk explores her experience of developing her professional practice, and what she learnt about character concept development along the way.\n\n\n\nOur conversation with Kelly will have a particular focus on the company that she established specifically to streamline and professionalise the way feedback is sought and given for various elements of each project she develops. Effective feedback is a critical element of any project’s development and comes in many forms from technical advice through to overviews of creative design and even cultural appropriateness.\n\n\n\nThe system Kelly created to find and retain key people to provide this range of feedback has proved to be so successful it has attracted funding from film agencies and lead to the creation of a standalone organisation to manage and deliver it. This will be a golden opportunity to learn about the power of developmental assistance that high level feedback provides and how to utilise Kelly’s system and ideas for your own film practice.\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n↑ ( #top )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConversation #3: Sarah Balanger, Maker of “Rushmore” (ESMA – France)\n\n\n\nRushmore – Oriane Azzhiri, Sarah Balanger, et al\n\n\n\nSarah Balanger is one of the team from France’s prestigious Ecole Superieure des Metiers Artistiques (ESMA) school which made the film “Rushmore” which is screening competition in MIAF 25.\n\n\n\nThe ESMA animation course is a demanding one, annually producing a cohort of French animators who will go on to significant careers as independent and commercial animators.\n\n\n\nESMA graduation films are team projects, rather than individually directed and while this brings the strength of being able to harness the skills of a talented collective of animators, it also brings into play the need to cooperate, negotiate and compromise within a group structure to produce a final result all can be proud of.\n\n\n\nSarah will sit down and discuss her experience at ESMA making “Rushmore”, her views on the wider world of animation as she sees it and her thoughts on moving from the contained world of creating a student film into the wider space of a professional animator.\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n↑ ( #top )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConversation #4: Nailing The Perfect Fight Scene – Ollie Wilson (VCA – Aus)\n\n\n\nThe Devourer’s Den – Oliver Wilson\n\n\n\nOllie Wilson’s VCA grad film “The Devourer’s Den” screened in MIAF’s Australian Showcase on opening night.\n\n\n\nIt channels a combination of anime, gaming and horror film aesthetics and at its beating heart is a prolonged, beautifully executed series of fights scenes.\n\n\n\nYou get the sense that this is something Ollie had been itching to animate for quiiiiiiite a while! That ambition is far from unique when it comes to student animators but getting it right is a whole different box of dice. And it’s not just about the finished animation; those fight scenes have to be choreographed in animatic form to the satisfaction of a teaching team who may (or may not) share the passion for a fight-to-the-death piece of animation and the characters have to be designed in such a way that animating them ‘works’ for what is being created.\n\n\n\nThen there is the critical eye of the audience who themselves are no strangers to these films and are often walking encyclopaedias of the inspirations, references and masters of the form. But Ollie’s nailed it here and we plan to ask him how (and why) he did it.\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n↑ ( #top )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConversation #5: Building Worlds – Gabriella Lee Sudyatmiko (RMIT – Aus)\n\n\n\nCarrion – Gabriella Lee Sudyatmiko\n\n\n\nThe film “Carrion” made by Gabriella Lee Sudyatmiko at RMIT last year is set in a densely imagined and visually saturated undersea world. It is a world that offers the animator an almost endless range of choices and opportunities; a kind of maximum flexibility that allows an incredible creative freedom.\n\n\n\nThat Gabriella has leaned into this opportunity is evident from the earliest moments of the film and the sense of continuing immersion in this world only increases as the film progresses, becoming more and more visually complex as it goes.\n\n\n\nAdditionally this world also has to be populated and ways have to be found to make the inhabitants of the world move through it, interact with each other and with the fixed infrastructure of they encounter.\n\n\n\nThis kind of ‘imaginative ballet’ first takes form in the mind of the animator before a single frame is drawn and the capacity to create and then realise that vision is what it is to ‘think like an animator’.\n\n\n\nGabriella will discuss this process of ‘world building’ and take us inside the making of her beautifully realised new film “Carrion”.\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n↑ ( #top )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConversation #6: How We Made A Finnish Heavy Metal Music Video\n\n\n\nWarmen: A World Of Pain – Simon Norton\n\n\n\nNobody does heavy metal quite like the Fins but even within that uniquely anarchic cohort the band “Warmen” stand out for their iron-clad fidelity to the form; they give it everything they have and they have a lot to give.\n\n\n\nSomehow – and we’re about to find out how – a group of RMIT students in Melbourne, lead by lecturer Simon Norton got to make an official music video for “Warmen”. Perhaps aptly titled “A World Of Pain” this is Finnish metal at its full-blast best!\n\n\n\nWe screened it as the closing film in MIAF’s Australian Student Showcase coz we loved it and we couldn’t imagine anything being able to follow it.\n\n\n\nThere has to be one helluva story behind how this came to pass and how the resulting animated video was created to match the barely constrained concussive force of the music and the molten-hot, dangerous energy that pours forth.\n\n\n\nGoing to the source is the only way so we invited Simon and some of the contributing students in for a chat to learn everything we can about their experience in crafting the video for “A World Of Pain” for a Finnish heavy metal band called “Warmen”.\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n↑ ( #top )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll sessions are classified: Unclassified (M) Mature, not recommended for viewers under 15 years.\n\n\n\nPlease note that Backlot is NOT fully accessible. There are stairs with handrails, but no lift to the second floor where the cinema is located.\n
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