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Category: Australian

  • Australian Animation In A Time Of A.I.

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    Australian Animation In A Time Of A.I.

    TICKETS Special MIAF Presentation Nobody – NOBODY – knows for sure how the rise of A.I. will impact on Australian animation. But like a cyclone on the weather map we know it’s coming. Some doors will be opened, some closed and some, likely, blown in. Commercial studios will look to it to help save costs…

  • Best Of The Fest (18+)

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    Best Of The Fest (18+)

    This session is classified: Unclassified (18+), restricted to people 18 years and over. TICKETS It all comes down to this …The Best Of The Fest! The judges have deliberated, the audience votes have been added up and we’ve had a bit of a think about the best mix of the program winners to pull together…

  • Best Of The Fest (18+) – REPEAT

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    Best Of The Fest (18+) – REPEAT

    This session is classified: Unclassified (18+), restricted to people 18 years and over. TICKETS It all comes down to this …The Best Of The Fest! The judges have deliberated, the audience votes have been added up and we’ve had a bit of a think about the best mix of the program winners to pull together…

  • Grendel Grendel Grendel

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    Grendel Grendel Grendel

    Please not this session is rated: General (G) Tickets (sold out) VERY LIMTED late release tickets available! Classic Australian Feature The story behind the preservation and digitising of “Grendel Grendel Grendel” stands as MIAF’s most exciting moment. Grendel’s director, Alex Stitt, was an icon of Australian animation and design. His most recognised work includes the…

  • Animating Worlds in Virtual Production

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    Animating Worlds in Virtual Production

    This VERY special masterclass is being held in partnership with Film, Television and Animation, Deakin University. This five hour workshop will be held at Deakin University Melbourne Burwood Campus Separate ticketing – not included in any MIAF passes. TICKETS Animating Worlds in Virtual Production A masterclass for all in bringing stop-motion animation and virtual production…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Matt Bissett-Johnson [2023]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: Matt Bissett-Johnson [2023]

    TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: Matt Bissett-Johnson Touchdown, Planet MBJ! Matt Bissett-Johnson has been submitting inscrutably bizarre, off-the-wall micro gems for quite some time. The first iterations arrived as little expeditions from reality that appeared to be animated on post-it notes. Featuring characters that look like dystopic extras from a world populated by bugs, experimental beasts…

  • Australian Focus: The Films of UTS Animal Logic Academy with Guest Q&A [2023]

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    Australian Focus: The Films of UTS Animal Logic Academy with Guest Q&A [2023]

    TICKETS The UTS Animal Logic Academy is proving to be a powerhouse of animated innovation, bringing together a prodigious roster of talented practitioners from a wide range of different places in the Australian animation ecosystem. The films being produced at the Academy are, unsurprisingly, world class and stand as a showcase of what can be…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: 4 Makers / 3 Films [2023]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: 4 Makers / 3 Films [2023]

    TICKETS Tickets are Sold Out Meet The Filmmaker: 4 Makers / 3 Films Creative Interventions: Using Animation to Bring Live Action to Life The capacity for animation to bring an extra dimension to an otherwise live-action film is virtually limitless. The wonder is that it doesn’t happen more often. Small injections of the kind of…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: John Astley & Emily Burridge [2023]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: John Astley & Emily Burridge [2023]

    TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: John Astley & Emily Burridge “Into Lyrebird Gully” – 3 Years In The Making When John Astley sat down to make the film that he hoped would define his studies as an animation student and pave the way for a career making independent animated films, he never imagined that the production…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: The Making of “Among The People” [2023]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: The Making of “Among The People” [2023]

    TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: Jody Clever The Making of “Among The People” Melbourne based Jody Cleaver has a personal art practice encompassing printmaking, painting, curation and animation. Her various artworks have been the subject of exhibitions at a wide range of Melbourne galleries and her animated films have screened at festivals around the world. Her…