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International Animation Day 2025

Category: Australian

  • Australian Student Showcase [2024]

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    Australian Student Showcase [2024]

    TICKETSSOLD OUT The state of Australian student animation is as vibrant and varied as it has ever been. A wonderful energy and ‘anything-goes’ optimism permeates so many of the films produced by the most recent Australian animation graduates – all the more remarkable considering so many of them had their studies impacted by the covid…

  • Australian Showcase – Official Opening [2024]

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    Australian Showcase – Official Opening [2024]

    TICKETSSOLD OUT From a record number of submissions comes this year’s snapshot of the independent Australian animation scene in all of its wildly eclectic diversity. In an environment starved of funding and confronted by the indifference of mainstream media incredible, original films are being made by a thriving community of creatives and this is the…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Costas Lambrou [2024]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: Costas Lambrou [2024]

    TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: Costas Lambrou– Anatomy of the MIAF Opening Film “As Above, Do Not Know” “As Above, Do Not Know” has to be one of the most gloriously eccentric and mischievously unpredictable films we have ever opened an Australian Showcase with. The frame jumps around all over the place, a bizarre cast of characters…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Brick Maths [2024]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: Brick Maths [2024]

    TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: Brick Maths– Animators, Don’t Try This At Home When Dr Emily Cook, a passionate and driven senior lecturer in STEM Education looked for new ways to teach core mathematic concepts to math-phobic students she veered off the path most travelled and turned to animation. Together with a small team of accomplished…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Studio Showoff [2024]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: Studio Showoff [2024]

    TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: Studio Showoff & The Making of “American Sikh” Studio Showoff is a dynamic Melbourne based animation house turning out boutique ad campaigns through to full TV series for children and adults alike. Recently they joined forces with an international team of creatives to make a special film about a singularly special…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Lachlan Plain [2024]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: Lachlan Plain [2024]

    TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: The Hand Built Alternative Realities of Lachlan Plain Lachlan Plain is a very hands-on animator. The films he makes are visceral examples of animation crafted out of real materials brought to life before our eyes. With narrative arcs eschewing anything remotely orthodox, the compelling, confounding worlds he creates channel the kind…

  • One Of A Kind: Tribute To Antoinette Starkiewicz [2024]

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    One Of A Kind: Tribute To Antoinette Starkiewicz [2024]

    TICKETSSOLD OUT Join us for a retrospective screening honouring the bold and unforgettable work of Polish-Australian animator Antoinette Starkiewicz. Known for her dazzling and vibrant animation, Antoinette’s creations were often as irreverent and raunchy as they were bewitchingly delicate. Often inspired by music and dance, Antoinette’s filmography explores themes of feminine sexuality and agency, critiques…

  • Grendel Grendel Grendel [2023]

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    Grendel Grendel Grendel [2023]

    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…