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Category: Focus

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Sander Joon

    Meet The Filmmaker: Sander Joon

    TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: The Strange & Wonderful Worlds of Sander Joon Sander Joon is the quintessential new generation Estonian animator, taking the best of the richly unique animating culture and bringing a uniquely personal 21st century edge to his work. A graduate of the EKA Estonian Academy of Arts (MIAF’s ‘School of Focus’ this…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Costas Lambrou

    Meet The Filmmaker: Costas Lambrou

    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

    Meet The Filmmaker: Brick Maths

    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

    Meet The Filmmaker: Studio Showoff

    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

    Meet The Filmmaker: Lachlan Plain

    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…

  • EKA Showcase

    EKA Showcase

    TICKETS Estonia’s EKA Academy of Arts is home to one of the finest, most open and diverse animation courses in Europe, if not the world. It draws students from around the European union who seek to create unique animated films that stand as individual, creative statements, not as calling cards for a life in the…

  • Australian Animation In A Time Of A.I.

    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…

  • Animation In The Time Of AI

    Animation In The Time Of AI

    This workshop will be run at COLLARTS and is limited to just six (6) people. This will followed by a Q&A session available to everyone. Calling All Animators – Come Play, Come Learn Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) coming or is AI here? For as long as animators have been animating they have been experimenting, pushing…

  • Artificial Intelligence Q&A session

    Artificial Intelligence Q&A session

    This session follows a workshop run at COLLARTS. This Q&A is chance for everyone to see the work from the day and hear all about AI in animation. Tickets (FREE) Celebrate International Animation Day with a discussion on the future of AI in Animation. After spending the day in a workshop playing with the latest…

  • Anijammin’

    Anijammin’

    Please not this session is rated: Unrestricted M (Mature) – Restricted to persons aged 15 and over unless accompanied by an adult. Tickets (sold out) VERY LIMTED late release tickets available! Guest Co-Curator: Marv Newland Gotta love a great ANIJAM! A bunch of disparate animators come together and individually animate their own section of a…