Another wee trifecta of news bits for your waning weekend. Firstly I've learned that
Sunscapades has itself another November screening coming up. Just before its outings at the
Norfolk Film Festival and
Magma - Mostra di Cinema Breve the film will return to Australia again as part of the same
Late Night Bizarre programme it had been touring around in
over the summer. This time around it will be at the
Newcastle International Animation Festival. Again, this is in Australia, so all you Geordies out there can stand down. The event takes place on Saturday November 16th 10:30pm at
UoNSOCI. Wish I could be there!
Earlier that week and on our own tumultuous, frothy shores, the fifth edition of the
Manchester Animation Festival will take place. Having grown in ambition and scope exponentially each year since it kicked off, the 2019 edition looks to be another belter with three crammed days of animationey doings. Personal highlights include a masterclass with
Michaël Dudok de Wit, a showcase from the
Tricky Women team as well as behind-the-scenes looks at recent features
Klaus and
Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon.
As with previous editions however you'd be a bit daft to miss the cheap-as-free (to passholders, cheap as a
measly £6 to everyone else)
Skwigly Screening that I've been beavering away on. This is a great opportunity to catch an hour's worth of amazing films you won't be able to catch elsewhere at the fest and as ever it's been an absolute joy to put together. The full line-up is as follows:
- Getting Started (Dir. William Crook/Switzerland/2019)
- Five Reasons Why I Don’t Trust Jellyfish (Dir. Shenja Tatschke/Germany/2019)
- Morning (Dir. Vojtěch Domlátil/Czech Republic/2019)
- M52 (Dir. Yves Paradis/Germany/2019)
- Revenge Story (Dir. Erin Kim/USA/2019)
- You Died (Dir. Sam Shaw/UK/2019)
- Creepy Pasta Salad (Dir. Lauren Orme/UK/2019)
- The Last Man on Earth Sat Alone in a Room (Dir. Junyi Xiao/USA/2019)
- Five Minutes To Sea (Dir. Natalia Mirzoyan/Russia/2018)
- #21XOXO (Dir. Imge Özbilge, Sine Özbilge/Belgium/2019)
- Moist (Dir. Greg Doble/Canada/2019)
The screening will take place 5pm Wednesday November 13th at the Event Space in Manchester's
HOME. As tradition dictates, right afterwards at 7pm Steve and I will be inflicting another notorious
Skwigly Quiz on festivalgoers, so be sure to stick around for that and be in with a chance to scoff up some amazing animation trinkets and doodads.
On the subject of Skwigly,
episode 94 of the seemingly-unending
Skwigly Animation Podcast went up this past week. In this one we discuss the strong critical response to
Farmageddon, the lukewarm critical response to
The Addams Family remake, the growing fondness for Laika’s
Missing Link, the fight for the
South Park streaming rights, more MAF highlights, the
British Animation Awards and
Autour de Minuit's
Rosto graphic novel campaign.
We also welcome special guest
Alex Dowding, producer at Amsterdam-based production company
Submarine whose projects include the recent Amazon Prime original series
Undone, an international co-production with
The Tornante Company and
Minnow Mountain created by
Raphael Bob-Waksberg and
Kate Purdy. Prior to working at Submarine, Alex’s work in animation has spanned a
range of production management and supervisor roles across such projects
as
Despicable Me,
Despicable Me 2,
Minions,
The Tale of Despereux and
The Lorax.
Direct download this episode
here or stream below:
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