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- 9.45am – 11am Open Shorts 2
- 11am – 1pm Family Animation Day
- 11.15am – 1.15pm Personal Views
- 2pm Coraline
- 2.15pm – 4.15pm Spotlight on ArthurCox
- 4.45pm – 6pm Open Shorts 3
- 7pm – 7.15pm Flip Animation Challenge
- 7.15 – 8.45pm Student Screening, and announcements of competition winners
- 7.30pm Coraline
- 8.45pm – late Flip Closing Party
Open Shorts 2
9.45 – 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 second screening of the festival will feature a number of outstanding shorts from new and established directors, including the multiaward winning Kudan, from Japan, the hilarious natural history film, The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl all the way from Hollywood and the sublimely malodorous Stinks, from the West Midlands.
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Family Animation Day
11am – 1pm
Join us at Wolverhampton Art Gallery for a day of animation for all the family. You can make an animation inspired by POP artist Jann Haworth, using soft fabrics and wool, and watch animation from 7 Inch Cinema’s Travelling Picture Show.
Free event at Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Personal views
11.15am – 1.15pm
In this session we are invited into the world of the Brothers McLeod who will be introducing and casting interesting insights into some of their favourite and most influential films. The screening will include a number of familiar classics, including Chuck Jones, on top form with Feed the Kitty, the eerie children’s TV series, The Moomins, as well as a number of modern classics, including Suzi Templeton’s BAFTA winning Dog, and Au Bout du Monde, from Oscar nominated director, Konstantin Bronzit;
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Coraline
2pm & 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
Spotlight on ArthurCox
2.15pm – 4.15pm
Flip is delighting to welcome director and producer Sarah Cox, from the award winning ArthurCox studio. Originally started by Sally Arthur and Sarah Cox in 2002, the Bristol based studio has since grown in size and diversity and has become a home to many other award winning directors and animators, including: Matthew Walker, John and Karen (Cartoon d’Or nominee 08); Sally Arthur, A-Z (Best Documentary Rushes festival 08); Felix Massie Keith Reynolds Can’t Make it Tonight; Mark Simon Hewis, The Life Size Zoetrope and Fig Roll, Little Face . The event will begin with a screening of work by the studio including short films, broadcast and commercial work, followed by an ‘in conversation’ discussion chaired by Greg McLeod, from the Brother’s McLeod.
Open Shorts 3
4.45pm – 6.00pm
This year the festival again received an abundance of films from around the world. The third and final screening of the festival will feature a number of outstanding shorts from new and established directors, including Wings and Oars, the latest production from the multiaward winning Latvian director, Vladmir Leschiov, Stephen Irwin’s inventive and much praised Black Dog’s Progress and Damaged Goods, the first film from award winning artist and designer Barnaby Barford which utilises ceramic figurines and stop motion techniques to tell a tragic love story.
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Flip Animation Challenge
7.00pm – 7.15pm
Screening of the films produced on the Flip Animation Challenge and the animator residence
Student Screening, and announcements of competition winners
7.15pm – 8.45pm
This screening will showcase the best films from a number of regional universities, including Staffordshire University, the University of Wolverhampton, Derby University, Birmingham City University; this is an opportunity to check out some of the upcoming talent from around the region and beyond.
Followed by an award ceremony when we announce the winners of the Open Shorts and Student Competition
We are very grateful to this year’s judges: for the student competition: Chris Randall from Second Home Productions, Dominic Osborne, from Eight Eyed Sea Bass, and Birmingham based, The Character Shop. The judges for the Open Shorts competition are: Sarah Cox, from ArthurCox Studios, Greg McLeod, from the Brothers McLeod and Stuart Messinger, Senior VFX Supervisor at Aardman Animations
The festival competition has been kindly sponsored by Toon Boom.
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Flip Closing Party
8.45pm – late
The last night will be a mix of live music, including: self proclaimed musical ‘geek’ collective Déjà Music, The Young Runaways, who’ve been making waves in Birmingham and Glastonbury; special late night film screenings of the strange, frivolous and irresponsible selected by Film Forum WM and the return of our popular animation jukebox.
Free event
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