DAFF2015 programme - Dublin Animation Film Festival 2017

DAMIEN O’CONNOR

TOMM MOORE

Damien currently works at Brown Bag Films as an Episodic Director on the number one US preschool show Doc McStuffins for Disney Junior and has previously written and directed four award winning Irish Film Board funded shorts (Mutt, Ledog, Dick Terrapin, After You). His most recent short film ANYA was a unique collaboration between Brown Bag Films and Irish NGO ‘To Russia With Love’ to help highlight the plight of Russian orphans. Since its online release last year ANYA has picked up numerous awards including the Social Recognition Award at Dublin Animation Film Festival in 2014.

Dublin Animation Film Festival is delighted to announce that Tomm Moore, the Co-founder and Creative Director of Cartoon Saloon will participate in a Q & A session after a screening of ‘Song of the Sea’ at the Pavilion Theatre, on Saturday, 17th October 2015. The screening will commence at 12.10 pm. Bookings for the screening and Q & A can be made from

CAO Open Evening: Wed 13 Jan 2016 4pm – 7pm Postgraduate + Part-Time Programmes Open Evening: Wed 13 Apr 2016 5pm – 7pm

the Pavilion Website: www.paviliontheatre.ie Tomm has directed 2 universally successful feature films. The Secret Of Kells (Best Animated Feature Nominee: Academy Awards®) and the spiritual follow-up, Song of the Sea. Song is enjoying great success since its release in Dec 2014. Cartoon Saloon was founded in 1999 by Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey and Paul Young, who met whilst studying animation in Ballyfermot Senior College, Dublin. Find out more about Tomm and his studio, Cartoon Saloon at www.cartoonsaloon.ie

MICHELE CHIAPPA

IAN MACKINNON

Michele Chiappa, is the Lead Editor on the BAFTA winning pre-school animated show Sarah & Duck for BBC Worldwide. Michele acted as the editor for the Student Academy Award winning short Miss Todd which was also selected for the Annie Awards, Raindance, Anima Mundi and Annecy. His first feature film, Io, Arlecchino is currently enjoying successful distribution both in Italy and worldwide. His special interest in animation led to his current position of Lead Editor at Karrot Animation. Michele’s lecture at IADT is open to the public. He will be delighted to answer any questions.

Ian Mackinnon is a Creative Director and Co-Founder of Mackinnon & Saunders, a world leader in visual character development and stop motion puppet fabrication. Over the last 20 odd years the talented team at Mackinnon & Saunders have brought some of the world’s best known animated characters to life – for children’s TV shows including Postman Pat, Bob the Builder, Pingu, Rastamouse, and for features from Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox to Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks! Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie.

To find out more about Karrot Animation go to www.karrotanimation.com

Open Days: Fri 27 Nov 2015 10am – 4pm Sat 28 Nov 2015 10am – 2pm

To learn more about Ian and the work of Mackinnon & Saunders, come along to IADT on the 16 October 2015 or check out the Mackinnon & Saunders website: www.mackinnonandsaunders.com

Open Days 2015/16

To find out more about Damien and Brown Bag Films, come to IADT for his talk on 16 October 2014 and visit the Brown Bag website at www.brownbagfilms.com

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IADT is a dynamic Institute which offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes that are both creative and innovative. Our Open Days/Evenings will give you the opportunity to visit and discover what is available at IADT for you. Animation / Applied Entrepreneurship / Applied Psychology / Art / Creative Computing / Creative Media Technologies / Creative Music Production / Cultural Enterprise Design for Stage and Screen / English Media and Cultural Studies / Entrepreneurship / Entrepreneurship + Management / Film + Television Production / Photography / 3D Design, Modelmaking + Digital Art / Visual Communication Design For further information on any of these events, please email Elena Somoza at [email protected] or call her at +353 1 239 4922.

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DUBLIN ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL 2015

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

Welcome to Dublin Animation Film Festival 2015. This is the fifth year that an animation film has been supported and celebrated in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown!

Friday 16th October AO19, Atrium Building, IADT

Saturday 17th October Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire

10:00am Michele Chiappa, Karrot Animation. Complete Control - the role of editing in animation.

12:00pm Festival Welcome and Screening of Cartoon Saloon’s ‘Song of the Sea’. Followed by a Q & A session with Tomm Moore! (IFCO: General)

This year, to pay tribute to Irish Design 2015, we will be welcoming Tomm Moore to the Pavilion Theatre and screening his beautiful film ‘Song of the Sea’. We will also be screening the shortlisted films for the DAFF 2015 Awards as well as hosting an ‘Irish Retrospective’ at the DLR LexIcon. We are delighted with the number and quality of entries we have received from both Irish animators and from the Irish ‘Animation Class of 2015’ who entered their final year films. The future looks bright for the industry!

11:30am Damien O’Connor, Brown Bag Films, Dublin  From Script to Screen - bringing your film idea to life. 1:30 pm Ian Mackinnon, Mackinnon & Saunders Studios  Mackinnon & Saunders – a Retrospective View of their Work.

I always like to list everyone by name and thank them personally in my letter, for their help in making DAFF a reality, but the list is long and my space is restricted this year – so after DAFF 2015 we will be listing everyone at www.dublinanimationfilmfestival.com. We will include our fabulous Guest Speakers, Sponsors, Supporters, and Friends. But for the moment, this is the short version:

2:45pm Nelson Lowry, Laika Studios, USA. National Film School Lecture: A journey through Laika Studios.

The O’Neill Family – (My family – go raibh maith agat!)

4:30pm Close

My wonderful team of friends, the people who volunteered to help and the judges! A big thank you to the dynamic teams at the Studio HB, Pavilion Theatre, DLR LexIcon and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Special thanks also to the students at the National Film School, IADT. Our sponsors are listed on a separate page. Please support them as they have supported us! Finally, thank you to everyone who entered their films!

Fionnghuala Ní Néill Festival Director

We would like to thank the National Film School, IADT and the staff and students for their support! Find out more about IADT at www.iadt.ie

NELSON LOWRY

Tickets for ‘Song of the Sea’ are as follows: €7.50 adult, €5 child, €22 for a family ticket! 2:30pm

Screening of Irish Retrospective and international films commences at The Studio, DLR LexIcon.

2:45pm Screening of DAFF 2015 shortlisted films (First reel) 4:00pm Screening of DAFF 2015 shortlisted films (Second reel) 4:00pm

Polling for the Audience Choice Award and The Irish Retrospective Award commences.

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Nelson Lowry is a Supervising Production Designer at Laika Studios, Portland, Oregon, USA. Nelson’s lengthy credits include LAIKA’s current production Kubo and the Two Strings as well as The Boxtrolls and ParaNorman. He also contributed his creativity to Corpse Bride, the Christmas comedy Fred Claus and Danny Boyle’s Sunshine. He worked on twenty-two episodes of The PJs, an Eddie Murphy Imagine Entertainment/Touchstone Pictures stopmotion TV series for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. Winner of the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Production Design for his work on Fantastic Mr. Fox, he has also been nominated for several Annie Awards. Nelson spent seven years working in London where, fittingly, a selection of his Fantastic Mr.Fox sets is on display at the Roald Dahl Museum.

PAVILION THEATRE DLR LEXICON

IADT

To learn more about Laika, visit IADT on the 16th October and visit the Laika website at www.laika.com You can get to IADT and the Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire on the 46A, and 75 buses. Other buses for Dún Laoghaire – 7, 7N, 46n, 59, 63, 111.

6:15pm Dublin Animation Film Festival Awards Ceremony.

Check www.dublinanimationfilmfestival.com for updates. We are delighted to announce that Aaron Wood and Katie Steed from Slurpy Studios and Jon Turner from Kilogramme Animation are available for ‘portfolio’ clinics on Saturday morning, 10 -11:30 a.m. Please email [email protected] to book as places are limited.

A selection of the films will be suitable for a General audience. Other ratings will be screened separately. Note There are three individual tickets for: 1.The ‘Song of the Sea’ screening. 2. The DAFF2014 official selection of short films. 3. The DAFF awards ceremony.

Nelson’s lecture is sponsored by The National Film School

Programme details are correct at the time of going to print.