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Animating the Great Debate: Creativity and GenAI
SOLD OUT AI is transforming animation. MIAF, Deakin and SIGGRAPH gather industry voices to explore the possibilities, risks and changes ahead. AI is the topic of our moment in history – and will have an outsized role in writing the future chapters. It is already a force within the commercial and independent animation spaces, with…
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Women in Animation – social gathering
SOLD OUT MIAF is excited to welcome Women in Animation (WIA) for the second year in a row. Join us on Saturday evening for a relaxed social gathering and a chance to build meaningful industry connections. We’ll meet in the bar for friendly conversation, like‑minded creatives, and a playful animation‑themed connection game designed to spark…
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Izabela Plucinska – Retrospective & Q&A
Izabela Plucinska is one of the most interesting and innovative independent animators working today. Over the last 25 years MIAF has screened most of her films, and watched Izabela breathe life into flat tablets of coloured plasticine. As those characters took on more intense and engaging physical forms we’ve watched in quiet awe as Izabela…
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F.A.N. European Animation Survey – Program #2: Cyprus
MIAF has partnered with five different European animation festivals from the Festivals Animation Network (FAN). Together we have crafted five programs of new animation that delivers a comprehensive overview of what’s happening in the European animation scene. The Tornado Outside Maria Tomazou Cyprus, 8’15, 2023 Anna lives in a perfect house – except that it is…
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Meet The Filmmaker #1: “The Fractured” – Australian Showcase Opening Film
“The Fractured” is a moody and elegant film; part story, part dream, part visual poem. It is a film that corralled the talents of team members spread across Melbourne, Adelaide, and Canada. MIAF’s Director Malcolm Turner will briefly outline why it was selected to open this year’s Australian Showcase, and then after a re-screening of…
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Meet The Filmmaker #2: “Devil’s Debt” – Energy To Burn!
“Devil’s Debt” was the closing film of MIAF’s Australian Showcase. It bristles with the high voltage energy of its young team, brilliantly channelling a range of animation’s most unique visual and narrative tropes. Some of the creators will join us for what promises to be a highly entertaining conversation about the harnessing of all that…
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Meet The Filmmaker #3: Princess Bento Visit MIAF
SOLD OUT Based in Melbourne, Princess Bento is one of Australia’s most successful animation studios. Their rise-and-rise has been remarkable. In the short time since their inception, they have produced a wide range of adult animated series, including “Koala Man” (20th Television Animation & HULU), “Universal Basic Guys” (FOX & Sony Animation), and “Hazbin Hotel”…
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Meet The Filmmaker #4: “Relentless Melt” – Max Hattler & A World Of Sublime Abstraction
Max Hattler is a filmmaker whose work has turned up in successive MIAF’s. An innovator and experimenter par-excellence, his personal films have charted unique journeys into the animation landscape. From his Hong Kong base, he established “Relentless Melt,” a kind of ‘abstractheque’ that draws from incredible work within both his teaching and curating realms, to…
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Meet The Filmmaker #5: “Kyiv Cake” – The Inside Story
Direct from Estonian’s dependably brilliant Joonisfilm Studio comes “Kyiv Cake”; an exploration of certain world events through a lens that only animation – in fact, only Estonian animation – could ever hope to deliver. A rich and thought-provoking cocktail of observational insights viewed through a lightly contorted surrealist lens, “Kyiv Cake” places an animated prism…
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F.A.N. European Animation Survey – Program #1: Portugal
MIAF has partnered with five different European animation festivals from the Festivals Animation Network (FAN). Together we have crafted five programs of new animation that delivers a comprehensive overview of what’s happening in the European animation scene. Candido Jose Pedro Cavalheiro Portugal, 11’20, 2007 “Candide never loved her. And manipulation is his favourite game.” Cold Soup…
