2024
Animation: Contextualising Australia's Mini-Boom
Screen Conversation
Guest in attendance.
Join Ken Anderson, co-founder of Wild Child Animation, UK, Leela Varghese and various filmmakers in conversation about Australia's animation mini-boom, witnessed by the production of Memoir of a Snail, Magic Beach and Lesbian Space Princess.
Runtime
75 Minutes
Pixar's Inside Out 2 had grossed $2.3 billion by 1 September. That's Hollywood for you. But Australia can be proud of its animated feature mini boom: Memoir of a Snail won the top prize at the world's most prestigious animation festival, Annecy; the first AFFIF and FilmLab animation feature Lesbian Space Princess will premiere at AFF2024; and 30 years after its publication, the classic children's book Magic Beach is now a film which had its world premiere in August at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Speakers include Ken Anderson, co-founder Wild Child Animation, UK, Leela Varghese and various filmmakers.
Film Credits
Year
2024
Type
Talk
Program Strand
Free Events & Screen Conversations
Genre
Animation & Educational
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Friday 25 Oct 2024
11:00 am
Animation: Contextualising Australia's Mini-Boom
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