Flip Festival | International Animation Festival at Light House, Wolverhampton, UK

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• 9.45am – 11am Open Shorts 1
• 11.15am – 1pm Looking at Sound, Hearing Animation
• 2pm – 4pm Spotlight on Axis Animation
• 4.30pm – 5.45pm Portfolio Reviews
• 7.30pm Coraline

Open Shorts 1
9.45am – 11.00am

This year the festival again received an abundance of films from around the world, many of which have received awards and citations at other festivals and competitions. The first screening of the festival will feature a number of outstanding shorts from new and established directors, including: Hot Dog, Bill Plympton, The Astronomer’s Dream, Malcolm Sutherland and work from ESMA, the prestigious French Art School

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Looking at Sound: Hearing Animation
11.15am to 1pm

This panel session brings together industry practitioners, animators and academics to discuss the role of sound design, the construction of the sound track in animation and its future in newer forms of audio- visual entertainment.  It will focus on how sound affects the animated moving image.  Does it function differently to live action and do possible future applications in animated imagery provide new challenges for sound design?  In focusing on sound as a theme, the panel aims to reveal its crucial role in the production cycle with a range of examples from award winning animators. The panel includes Dana Dorian, Bafta winning director with Axis Animation, Helen Brunsdon, who until recently was Development Manager at Aardman Animation before moving into freelancer producing, and Ross Winning, from the University of Wolverhampton.

Supported by School of Art & Design, University of Wolverhampton

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Spotlight on Axis Animation
2.00pm – 4.00pm

Flip is delighted to welcome Richard Scott, Managing Director and Executive Producer at Axis Animation, an award winning international team of producers, directors, designers, artists and animators based in Glasgow. The studio creates animation for some of the world’s leading names in Commercials, Games, Broadcast and Film and has won numerous industry accolades – most recently the prestigious Imagina Grand Jury Prize and a Best Animation BAFTA. This session will showcase some of the studio’s work, including films, broadcast and games, followed by an ‘in conversation’ discussion with Richard chaired by Mick Foley, from Sumo Dojo Productions.

Supported by School of Computing & IT, University of Wolverhampton

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Portfolio Reviews
4.30pm – 5.45pm

This session will focus on showreel and portfolios. What makes a perfect showreel and what are different sectors looking for in a showreel? How can you get your showreel seen? Flip is inviting 6 brave animators to present their showreel to a panel of experts representing various sectors, including games, character animation, advertising, 2d and 3d animation.  The panel will feedback to the animators and offer constructive advice and guidance on how to get a foothold in the industry. The presentations will be in front on an audience, so everyone benefits from the expertise and advice offered by the panel.

Panellists include: Chris Randall, from Birmingham based, Second Home Productions, who produce a range of animation and film production services; Saint John Walker, the Games, Animation and Facilities Sector manager at Skillset who has been at the interface of education and industry for over ten years, the Film and Digital Media Exchange, where he was a founding member of ‘Games Eden’ (www.gameseden.org) the East of England’s games business networking organisation, and Dominic Osborne, Director & Head of Visuals at Eight Eyed Sea Bass, the Birmingham based studio specialising animation and motiongraphics.

This event is generously supported by Business Link

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Coraline
7.30pm

A special 2d screening of the stunning stop motion feature from Henry Selick. A young girl walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life – only much better. But when this wondrously off-kilter, fantastical adventure turns dangerous, and her counterfeit other mother tries to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her stubborn determination, bravery, the aid of her neighbours and a talking black cat to save her real parents and some ghost children and to get back home. ‘Terrifying and beautiful, believable and fantastical, this is one of the best children’s films in years and Selick’s finest – better even than The Nightmare Before Christmas.’ Empire

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