THE PROGRAMME OF THE INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION DAY 2004

In 2002, the International Animated Film Association (ASIFA) launched its "International Animation Day" to commemorate the first public performance of Emile Reynaud's Optical Theatre at the Grévin Museum in Paris in 1892. Today, almost thirty countries ASIFA groups, mostly representing different countries of all over the world, are ready to celebrate this World Day. We also invited all animation supporters to participate to this celebration, through screening animated films, organizing workshops for the beginners, exhibiting artwork and stills, providing technical demonstrations, etcetera.
Some of us have taken this opportunity to spread this event over several days (for instance 9 days in France, 5 days in Portugal, 3 days in Iran and various length and different activities in other countries) involving numerous partners. Such a celebration is an outstanding opportunity for putting the "Art of Animation" in the limelight, as this art is not yet easily accessible to quite a large fraction of the public.
After the rather unobtrusive previous first two celebrations, this year's World-wild International Animation Day (28th October) is being celebrated in more than 30 countries! Here is a survey of what to expect.

Argentina

The animation department of the University of Buenos Aires will show a pixilation short specially made on this occasion, plus a demonstration of animation techniques, and it will screen student films of the French animation schools.
www.ucine.edu.ar

The international animated film festival of Cordoba (Anima) will offer various screenings for 3 days, introducing a selection of animated films produced in the province of Cordoba and more particularly the films of the experimental animation Centre as well as three retrospective programmes of the festival.
www.animafestival.com.ar


Austria

ASIFA Austria composed a selection of international animated film entitled Les Enfants terribles de l'animation. It includes provocative, sexual explicit, political radical and other strange films from Mariola Brillowska, Phil Mulloy, Ruth Lingford, Heinrich Sabl, Andreas Hykade and Mara Mattuschka. The programme will be shown in Vienna on the 28th october 2004 and will tour around in Austria, and probably neighbour countries afterwards.
asifa.net/austria/28OCT04

Belgium


The Folioscope association (Brussels Anima Festival) will launch its first "animated Tuesday" on 26 th October (Brussels, Arenberg Galeries Theatre) with a programme featuring the best of Anima 2003-2004.
www.folioscope.be

Brazil


In Rio de Janeiro, ABCA (Brazilian Animated Film Association) will provide a screening of Planet Earth, a film made for the United Nations Organization by a collective of Brazilian filmmakers and animators, as well as a selection of French students' graduation films of 2003.
www.abca.org

In Belo Horizonte, there will be one weeks' celebration in three different places, which will include workshops, debates and screenings. There will also be a big feast centring round the theme of animation on October 28th, with two concerts and DJs playing a special selection of animation-related music. November the 1st, there will be a video exhibit at Palacio das Artes with a selection of brazilian animation shorts.


Bulgaria

At the Bulgarian Nacionala Filmoteka in Sofia, ASIFA Bulgaria presents 6 programmes: a selection of Bulgarian children's films; the best of Bulgarian animation; a selection of Canadian short films; Russian films made between the two World Wars; a selection of the best animated films in the world from its own stock of films, as well as a selection of films from French animation schools. The Czech cultural centre of Sofia is showing a selection of Czech films.


Canada

The Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montréal and ASIFA Canada will be srreening a " 10 countries/10 films program ". There will be also a pixilation workshop (free entrance).
www.awn.com/asifa-canada
www.cinematheque.qc.ca


Croatia

ASIFA Croatia, in association with the World Festival of Animated Films in Zagreb and the Croatian Film Club's Association are to screen recent workshop films. There will be a screening of last year's Croatian films and of French students' graduation films.


Czech Republic

The National Film Archives of Prague proposes a Czechoslovakian short film program including films made by Milan Klikar, Jaroslava Havettova, Vlastimil Herold, Jan Svnakmajer, Alois Mikulka and Vladimir Lehky (1968-1986)


Finland

ASIFA Finland proposes in the city of Oulu a lecture with topic "Finnish Animation 100 years". In the cities of Tampere, Turku and Helsinki a screening of new Hungarian animation In Helsinki The Finnish Film Archive will screen Paul Grimault's The King and Mr Bird.
In Tampere all day animation screening in a media school and in the evening recent Japanese animation in a local cinema.
www.kaapeli.fi/animaat


France

From October 20th to 28th, there will be more than 250 celebrations all over the country. Screenings, exhibitions, workshops for beginners, professional meetings, open day (open house) operations. Among this year's events: two invitations to Raoul Servais, tributes to René Laloux, Ladislas Starewitch, retrospectives of Russian and Polish animated films, exhibitions about Emile Cohl, William Kentridge and the techniques of animation, a survey upon the French production centres, an animation fair, an "animation night", gems from the Shanghai studios at the opening ceremony and a show including films from the new countries joining the European community at the closing session.
www.afca.asso.fr


Hungary

At Szeged, there's a screening of French students' graduation films of 2003, a program of Pal Toth works and two other Hungarian studios programs, Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, and Sylvain Chomet's Belleville Rendez-Vous.
www.grandcafe.szeged.hu

At Budapest Also, in co-operation with ASIFA Finland, the Hungarian animation association, will screen a program recent Finnish animation.


India

ASIFA India is organizing a national competition for all the films produced in India in 2003. Its jury includes directors and animators from ASIFA San Francisco. A panel brings together some of the greatest talents of Indian animation.


Indonesia

The ANIMA association (the organizers of the Animasi Festival in Djakarta) is featuring a one week long an animation workshop at Djakarta's art centre and an exhibition.


Iran

ASIFA Iran will be organizing an exhibition of Iranian and international animation film's posters. Workshops of computer and traditional animation, animation shows with lectures by famous artists figures in different eras of art, a panels of animators, directors and producers.

In other cultural centers, free animation shows for children, for art schools' students, for public.

Other towns in the country, like Hamedan, Kerman and Isfahan will celebrate by showing art animation to the audiance.


Israel

The Tel Aviv Cinémathèque announces two screenings : Jonathan and Marsha Zur's documentary on Russian animation: Magia Russica (2004) and Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away.
www.cinema.co.il
The Academy of the arts and graphic arts of Bezalel of Jerusalem presents a selection of recent French graduation films.
www.bezalel.ac.il


Italy

Asifa Italy is to organize evening performances in Turin and Genova.
www.asifaitalia.org


Jordan

A tribute will be paid to Imad Hajjaj, a personality reaching national status in the field of comic strips, editorial cartoons and animated cartoons. The animation studios in Amman will provide animated film shows with the assistance of the Royal Film commission.
www.mahjoob.com


Latvia

The Riga Animation Museum in Riga will make a screening of Animal Farm (1954, John Halas & Joy Batchelor) and an exhibition about animation.


Morocco

The international festival of animated films of Meknès (FICAM) and the French Institute of Fès-Meknès will organize a day devoted to animation, featuring Princes and Princesses by Michel Ocelot, The Voyages of Sindbad by Karel Zeman and The Blue Arrow by Enzo d'Àlo.
www.ambafrance-ma.org/ficam


The Netherlands

At one of the De Pont Tilburg museums, the Netherlands Institute for Animation Film (NIAF) in co-operation with the Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF) calls for a debate about the state of affairs concerning the production of animated films in the countries of the new entrants in the European community. Janno Poldman, Joonisfilm, Estonia, Michel Snijder (il Luster Producties, the Netherlands) and Ton Crone (NIAF) will attend. During the debate, Estonian, Polish, Czech and Hungarian animated films are to be screened.
www.niaf.nl


Portugal

The House of Animation at Porto is organizing a tour of European animation shorts in 14 towns in this country, from October 25th to 31st. A few of them will also feature exhibitions and workshops for beginners.
The House of animation also presents a thematic film show centring upon poetry; a workshop for the initiation of beginners in animation; an exhibition and technical demonstrations.
www.casa-da-animacao.pt


Rumania

In Bucharest and in Iasi are taking place screenings of the latest films produced in Rumania (shorts, students' films and films for TV), an exhibition of original drawings, backgrounds and storyboards and a film show of French animation schools presented jointly by ASIFA Rumania and the Union of filmmakers.


Serbia and Montenegro

ASIFA Serbia and Montenegro are organizing film shows in Belgrade, Tchatchak, Vranye, Pantchevo and Novi-Sad. The Balkanima festival, which is taking place at this period, will pay a tribute to French animation.


Slovenia

ASIFA Slovenia will organize a three days's Slovenian animated film festival at Izola, specially to celebrate this event. The films will be judged by an international jury consisting of Thomas Renoldner (Austria), Simona Massi (Italy) and Crt Skodlar (Slovenia/Croatia).
www.cksp-izola.si/festival


Spain

At La Bisbal (Girona), the Cinètic association (Girona Festival) will be showing The Four Seasons of Ludovic's Life by Co Hoedeman, and will be including an exhibition about Emile Reynaud; a performance devoted to the pioneers of the animated film (silent films by Emile Cohl, Segundo de Chomon, Dave Fleischer, Walt Disney, Tony Sarg, Gregory La Cava...) and the screening of Belleville Rendez-Vous by Sylvain Chomet. Girona's museum of cinema will hold an exhibition about the pioneers of animated films, with a choice of items from the collection of Thomas Mallol. http://www.ladisbal.info/agenda

In Barcelona, ASIFA Catalunya in association with CPAA, the organization of animation and audio-visual professionals, will hold a meeting followed by a film show. The Cataluny Filmoteca will be showing The Four Seasons of Ludovic's Life by Co Hoedeman the 31st of October.
www.asifa-catalunya.org


The Animadrid Festival will screen a selection of several short films which were awarded during the four editions of the Festival :William Wilson by Jorge Dayas (1999), El Aparecido by Diego Agudo Pinilla (2000), Father & Daughter by Michael Dudok de Wit (2000), Das Rad by Chris Stenner, Heidi Wittlinger, Arvid Uibel (2001), Barcode by Adriaan Lokman (2001), La Historia de todos by Blanca Aguerre (2003), Harvey Krumpet by Adam Elliot (2003)
http://www.animadrid.com


Sweden

ASIFA Sweden is organizing screenings in two different places :
In Eksjö there will be a lecture about Emile Reynaud and other animation pioneers, by Midhat Ajanovic. There will also be a screening of 2004 graduation films from Konstfack institution of Animation.
In Härnösand There will be lectures about animation in general, an exhibition and also a screening of 2004 graduation films from Konstfack institution of Animation


Switzerland

GSFA (Swiss Animated Film Group) has built up a programme named Courts poursuite that will be shown in different Swiss towns as from the 22nd October. Among them Zürich, Bern, Geneva, Saint-Gall and Lausanne.


Taiwan

Tiaf (Taiwan International Animation Festival), in collaboration with the French Institute of Taipeh, will be screening a film show of French animation schools and a selection of films from Taiwan.
tiaf.ctfa.org.tw


The United States

ASIFA Central: the animation department of Grand Valley State University of Allendale, Michigan, organises an animation students' meeting exchange. This is to be followed by an open screening of international animation.
www.swcp.com/animate

ASIFA Colorado presents a coseplay night on the theme of animated film characters, with various video screenings...
www.asifa-colorado.org

ASIFA San Francisco invites Indian animation along with its promotion of independent short films, student and TV films, which will be followed by the ASIFA East international animated film awards (where a prize will be awarded by the audiance).
www.asifa-sf.org

ASIFA Northwest organises simultaneously in both Portland and Seattle an animators' celebration, a night when every filmmaker may bring along his own film and screen it to the audience.
asifa.net/usa-northwest

ASIFA East will present a program of new and developing works by New York animators.
www.asifaeast.com

ASIFA-Hollywood will present a Special Evening of International Animation! screening a special evening as we present the best new cartoons from around the world!
The showcase includes: Appleseed, Atagoul, Komaneko, Speedy Wonder : Jewel of the wonderium, Kitero : The Movie, Rascagnes, Rex Steele : Nazi Smasher... plus a few surprises!
www.asifa-hollywood.org


Uzbekistan

The Film studio Uzbekfilm in Tachkent will screen a program of the last films it had produced, a selection from international festivals, a tribute to Youri Norstein and will present a selection of recent French graduation films.

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