Le MIAFF: Montreal International Animation Film Festival
April 16th to April 19th
4 days of animation feature films, shorts workshops, panel discussions, interactive performances, animation themed parties Alice in Wonderland. Reggae Night and opening and closing parties to be held at Rosalie on de la montagne.
Partnerships :
TELETOON and Printemps Numérique ally with le MIAFF presenting industry professionals in animation for cinema and television and gaming. Technology in all it’s forms. Media partnership with filmfestivals.com
Adult and interactive themed opening event.
The Festival will open with the restored version for the 40th year anniversary of X-rated Shame of the Jungle voiced by John Belushi, Bill Murray and Johnny Weissmuller Jr. Shame of the Jungle (Original title Tarzoon, la honte de la jungle) French/Belgian animated film directed by cartoonist Picha and Boris Szulzinger.
Pre opener The Land of the Magic Flute: A live interactive music performance Of Mozart’s Magic Flute produced by the German Interactive Media Foundation music performed live composer Montreal composer Philippe Lambert opens the ceremonies.
Animaze to stream to the World some 40 hours of content - do not miss that if you missed the festival in Montreal
Discover ANIMAZE in Streaming CLICK HERE
We are quite excited to report Animaze has partnered with M (M Brands Film Inc.; 1mint.net) to stream the festival live (April 16-19th, 2015) and on-demand through May 26, 2015.
You will be able to see the red carpet, opening ceremony, keynote speakers, interactive Google Live Air Q & A panels, master classes, and closing ceremony. You will be able to enjoy over 40 hours of behind-the-festival coverage and in-depth filmmaker, executive producer, key suppliers, Animaze leadership and staff, and M’s team interviews. Plus, there will be spontaneous hallway and venue conversations. All of this content will continue to build until the end of May. Pricing will increase as more and more digital content is added.
* Physical festival pass and student pass patrons will automatically have access, if they provide their pass number. Just ask the Animaze –M team. Animaze -M.
Thematic short section are:
LA FEMME, EMERGING CINEMAS, HE(ART), DEATH & HORROR
OFFSPRING: CHILDREN, FURRY COSMOS: ANIMALS/NATURE
SCI-FI & UFO’S, EXPERIMENTAL , I HAVE AN ISSUE, FIRST NATIONS
A Bird in a Cage world premiere from the UK is a 19 minute short documentary animation that revives the story of Margaret Mackworth a pioneer of the suffragette society in the UK.
Annecy Int’l Animation Film Festivals,
Ottawa International Film Festival,
Kanata First Nations collection,
Fantasporto,
HollyShorts,
The Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival,
ECU...
Beauty, is an exquisite short, an ode to the Italian renaissance - one of our Best of Fantasporto Film Festival discoveries.
World of Tomorrow by Don Hertzfeldt (Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival / Best Animated Short, SXSW Best Animated Short)
Program of Conference Panels & Masterclasses
Animaze Days offers a 3 day conference program including a dozen events with stop motion master Oscar winner Co Hoedeman, Erik Goulet, a live dance performance with Zelma Badu, interactive performances will engage the audience with the art of animation in all it’s forms.
Conference and industry networking events at our venues at Concordia University Hall Cinema and deSeve theatres in downtown Montreal.
Maya Eriksson of the German Interactive Media Foundation producers of The Magic Flute and director Fons Scheidon share the experience of creating the graphic novel.
The NFB on LSD: In Conversation with Christopher Nutter
From musician and filmmaker off the beaten path Chris shares his fascinating perspective of the NFB during the psychedelic era shares stories of Arthur Lipsett who refused Stanley Kubrick’s request to create the title sequence for Dr. Strangelove, Norman McClaren the lion in the hallway and tales of Montreal legendary animator Ryan Larkin and more.
Gerald Potterton: In Conversation
Director of the iconic cult film Heavy Metal three time Oscar nominee shares his stories animating the Beatles Yellow Submarine, directing Buster Keaton and a spin of his rare record collection including a never heard before soundtrack composed by Ringo Starr.
Wearable technology: Subconscious content
Researchers are finding evidence that our decisions are driven by the subconscious and emotional response. Learn about measuring human reaction to content and how these biometric measurement tools such as SENSUM wearable technology evaluates engagement level of the audience to content. http://sensum.co/
Signal clip 2015 by Steve Woloshen
Watch the clip on our youtube channel
Featuring schools from Quebec offering each 3 best shorts (end of tuition student works)
· UQAM
· Concordia
· CEGEP du Vieux Montréal
· CEGEP de Bois de Boulogne
· Dawson College
· CEGEP de Matane
· NAD
Animaze 2015 Jury
Mike Wiesemeier
Mike began his drawing studies in the early 1980’s at Brandes Art Institute, in Reseda, California. Several years later he began working in the animation industry, beginning with small studios including Morgan Interactive and Colossal Pictures in San Francisco, and Philips Interactive in Los Angeles.
His career in feature animation began at Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1994, where he worked on six feature films including “Pocahontas”, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, “Hercules”, “Fantasia 2000″, “Tarzan”, and “Beauty and the Beast”. He worked at Walt Disney Animation Australia, and in Valencia, Spain as a supervisor on the animated film “El Cid: The Legend”.
Mike’s teaching career began while working at the Disney studio in Los Angeles, when he taught animation at the American Animation Institute, and at CalArts. In 2003 Michael taught life drawing to computer animators in Boulder, Colorado, and animal drawing at the Denver Zoo and San Diego Zoo. In 2004 he became a faculty instructor at the Art Institutes of California, teaching life drawing, animation, sculpture for animation, and character design. In 2005 he also taught figure drawing for 3D animators at Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood.
Since 2005 Mike has been a guest lecturer at many world class museums in Los Angeles, including The Getty Center Museum, The Getty Villa, The Huntington Library and Art Collections, and The Norton Simon Museum of Art, and Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. In 2007 Mike moved to Florence, Italy to study classical painting. He also continued his teaching here, at the animation school Nemo Academy, and other institutions such as New York University, Syracuse University, and Florence University of the Arts. In 2012 Mike moved to Montréal, Canada where he worked as Animation Director for top video game studio Square Enix/Eidos. He’s now a member of our ANIMAZE 2015 Jury !
Randall Finnerty
Randall Finnerty was born and raised in Timmins, Ontario. He studied Fine Arts at York University in Toronto, Sheridan College in Oakville and at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto. Since 1997, he has been involved in numerous productions of animated short films at the National Film Board of Canada as a digital imaging artist and, since 2007, as Senior Computer Graphics Animator. In addition, he is a practicing visual artist who regularly exhibits work, in various galleries and Maisons de la culture.
Awards Animaze
SCHOOL CONTEST – BATTLE DES ECOLES
Winning school
The winning school will be promoted with a link in the film school section on filmfestivals.com and with a featured article on filmfestivals.com
3 winning filmmakers
Each winning filmmaker will receive
1 Toon Boom software
1 promo package with filmfestivals.com valued 1.000 euros
Free profile editing assistance with personalization
Promotion of the film’s award on the website’s homepage
Promotion of the film award in filmfestivals.com newsletter 192 000 subscribers
Promotion of your profile / synopsis in the film showcase section of the website top of list 3 months
Screening of your film in Cannes at Off de Cannes May 16-17, at Annecy off (june) and during Animation Day location to be determined
BEST FILM (feature film)
The winner will receive a festival trophy
1 vintage film poster by www.movieposter.com/
1 a promo package with filmfestivals.com valued 1.500 euros
Free profile editing assistance with personalization
Promotion of the film’s award on the website’s homepage
Promotion of the film award in filmfestivals.com newsletter 192 000 subscribers
Promotion of your profile / synopsis in the film showcase section of the website top of list 3 months
Festival push: Promotion of your film to festival programmers worldwide in a shared eBlast to 13 000 festival contacts (twice)
AUDIENCE AWARD (feature film)
The winner will receive a festival trophy
BEST STORY (feature film)
The winner will receive a festival trophy
SENSUM AWARD (best emotion response in a short, documentary of feature film)
Gordon Laurie 
