Documentary
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Happy Monday! ANIMADOCS will be part of ANIDOK Zagreb this Saturday, a one-day intensive workshop for audio-visual professionals in the field of animated documentaries, organized by ASIFA Croatia.
Our founder Maria Stanisheva will lead the masterclass “ANIMADOCS: animation, documentary and everything in-between” which will explore different ways of mixing animation and documentary film. Case studies will include our independent projects, educational shorts, activist and human rights campaigns. The masterclass will take place on December 2, from 19:30 – 21:00 at the Tuškanac cinema.
Right before that, the incredible Swedish music video and film director and founder of FilmTecknarna Jonas Odell will hold a masterclass “What, how and why” where he will talk about what attracted him to an animated documentary, and how his vision of this genre has changed over the years. There will be lectures by Croatian film theorist Hrvoje Turković; art historian from Hungary Brigit Iványi-Bitter; and director of the German association AG Animationsfilm Annegret Richter.
The event is open and free for everyone, so please stop by if you are around!
Our founder Maria Stanisheva gave an interview for Central European University about ANIMADOCS, “art for social change”, the recent attacks on her Alma Mater in Budapest and nagyfröccs! Check out the full interview here.
Just launched our FB page where we will share more about who we are and what we do. We invite you to follow us and let us know what you think about our work. Some exciting new projects coming up real soon!
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Excited to announce that ANIMADOCS will be part of Ideas City NYC – a free public event at the Sara D. Roosevelt Park, just a block away from the New Museum this Saturday, 16 Sept where “a distinguished roster of participating artists, architects, activists, and community builders will present an array of innovative ideas”. This will be a daylong investigation of strategies, ideas, and propositions featuring artist talks, initiatives by local organisations, performances, and workshops all themed around “100 Actions for the Future City”.
Maria Stanisheva will take part in the civic platform by joining a panel discussion with selected fellows from the Athens edition that will focus on the group projects created during the residency and will take place at the Forum Stage at 1.20 p.m. She will also present ANIMADOCS and our latest project FINDING HOME on climate refugees as part of the Actions for The City presentations at the Assembly at 4:30 p.m. ANIMADOCS’ recent work will be screened all day long on a LED truck that will be installed at the park ;)
Here are a few more highlights of the program: Tania Bruguera on migration as civic intervention, David Byrne’s “Reasons to be Cheerful,” a conversation with Kemi Ilesanmi on community building, Trevor Paglen’s research on surveillance, a screening by Superflex, and Mel Chin’s presentation of his most recent work. Additional speakers include Tatiana Bilbao, Majora Carter, Nadina Christopoulou, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, Justin Garrett Moore, Rosanne Haggerty, dream hampton, Leslie Koch, Eric Liu, Mil M2, MTL+, Paul Ramírez Jonas, and Jonathan Rose, as well as a panel of mayors including Kasim Reed of Atlanta, Gregor Robertson of Vancouver, and Maurice Cox, former mayor of Charlottesville, VA.
A series of workshops, debates, and panel discussions will be held on-site. Programs include a workshop by Decolonize This Place; a panel discussion on cooperative real estate with 596 Acres, NYC REIC, Ecovillagers Cooperative, and Flux Factory; Black Gotham walking tours led by Kamau Ware; Columbia University’s GSAPP debates; a collective publication compiled by Manolis Daskalakis-Lemos; a conversation on food and social justice organized by Ghetto Gastro; a workshop on how to run for mayor by Ingrid LaFleur, and a conversation on Chinatown between Robert Lee and Mei Lum. Additional participants include Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels, BUFU, Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter, Afaina de Jong, Angela Dimayuga, Distinguished Diva, Tanya Fields, Jeff Gordinier, JJ Johnson, New Negress Film Society, Paolo Patelli, Giuditta Vendrame, LinYee Yuan, and presentations by The Rockefeller Foundation Fellows.
For more information, check out the full day schedule and join the FB event.
Happy to announce that our short The Tump & Jesus Show has been selected to screen within the Comedy/Drama section of Revolution Me Film Festival – “where filmmakers seek independence”. The screening will be held on Sunday, 13 August, 2PM at the Spike Lee Theatre (1 University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY).
Check out the full festival schedule and get your tickets in advance. Looks like an interesting indie film selection and the best part – our fabulous co-director/producer Todd Letherman will be there to talk about the film and answer any questions you might have!
FATHER – an animated-documentary produced by Maria Stanisheva while at Compote Collective and awarded 28 international awards, will be part of a very special event this week: the Animation Nights New York (ANNY) monthly screening. Looking at this moth’s selection, it looks like FATHER will be in good company so please join us for an exciting screening, followed by a Q+A with Maria and some of the other filmmakers.
ANNY will start at 8PM on Oct 26 (Wed) at 180 Maiden Lane, NY 10038. The location is quite unusual – a huge glass skyscraper in the middle of Seaport District featuring a renovated atrium plaza with a great screen, projection and sound system. Admission will be free. And if you are one of the people who don’t want to admit that Summer is now gone, feel free to bring a blanket to lounge on the indoor grass and come join us for a great selection of animation and a glass of wine or beer. Please don’t forget to RSVP for the event via Eventbrite and see you at the screening!
Dear friends,
You are invited to take part in the “Human Rights Illustrated” contest, organized by The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee and Compote Collective, where Maria Stanisheva will be one of the jury members. Works donated to the contest this year will be used to help improve the conditions at institutions for children with mental illness in Bulgaria. If selected, your illustration will be exhibited at a series of exhibitions, the first of which will be part of the Night/Plovdiv 2016 festival in September (a pretty amazing event!).
The Human Rights Illustrated competition is an experiment that challenges our imagination, creativity, and social sensitivity. It is an attempt to discuss human rights and focus on social issues through a medium everyone can understand. The invitation is open to a wide range of artists: web or graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, typographers, architects, conceptual artists or creative thinkers to take part via an illustration, inspired by one of the basic human rights from The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Deadline: 15 August, more details here. Please share the word and apply!
Virtual Reality (VR) has been the buzzword at film festivals this year. And although we were a bit sceptical at the beginning, some of the latest VR productions we’ve seen have changed the way we imagine VR in the animation and documentary world. To start with, there was 6X9: the Guardian’s Solitary Confinement project at Tribeca Film Fest, followed by the DocX selection at HotDocs where our personal favorites were Lucy Walker’s A HISTORY OF CUBAN DANCE; NOMADS: SEA GYPSIES and Cirque du Soleil’s amazing performance INSIDE THE BOX OF KURIOS. In addition, we flew a VR eagle whose aim is to calm your mind and help your meditation practice and took part in a cardboard car crash which was interesting, to say the least…
With new VR headgear now costing as little as $90 and most productions also being available on a computer screen (where you can change your POV just like in Google Maps Street View), ANIMADOCS is excited about producing VR and is partnering up with Infinite360°, a London/NYC-based VR production company specializing in documenting a big array of virtual experiences, including some BBC docs and live concerts (you can see more about what they’ve been up to here). Infinite360° just acquired the Nokia OZO, the first ever professional 360º camera, which has some great capabilities such as real-time monitoring, faster editing turnarounds and more. We offer a full package start-to-finish VR production at promotional early-bird prices (the camera rent usually estimated at $4k per day will be available at a substantial discount as part of this deal). So, if you have an idea for a project you would like to share with the world in a new and immersive way or an event you want to promote online – give us a shout!