Category: Q&A

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…