Presentations&Workshops

Bayala – From toy to animated film (Ulysses Films)
Wed, May 1st, Metropol 3, 10:30 am, Language: English

„Bayala – the Magic Elves Adventure“ is a family entertainment animated movie based on the successful Schleich toy series produced in Europe for an international market. Together with the author and the producer, the process of this project – from toy to script to evaluation – is presented and explained.

Presented by: Vanessa Walder, Jana Bohl, Emely Christians, Denise Tie

Graphic Novel Adaption ‚Der Papierene‘
Thu, May 2, Metropol 3, 10:30 am, Language: German

Sascha Dreier, author and illustrator of the graphic novel “Der Papierene” is among the finalists for the Comic Book Prize of Berthold Leibinger Stiftung this year and his work will be acknowledged in the Award Ceremony on April 29. “Der Papierene” (the paper man) – so the nickname of Austrian football legend Matthias Sindelar – is about the myth surrounding this Vienna “Wunderteam” (wonder team) player and his tragic death. Together with Johannes Schiehsl of animation studio Neuer Österreichischer Trickfilm in Vienna, Sascha Dreier adapted his graphic novel into a screenplay for an animated feature film. In this workshop, the two of them will talk about the link between sports and politics, how an open society in 1920s and 30s Europe changed to an authoritarian society, as well as report on their approach to and the challenges of script development.

Presented by: Sascha Dreier, Johannes Schiehsl

Concept development for TV- and Web-Series
Fri, May 3, Metropol 3, 10:30 am, Language: English

Animated series are dominating children’s entertainment. Through the evolution of new evaluation platforms, the demand for serial content keeps growing. Good stories are in high demand but how are they developed and presented in a convincing way? In a practical manner, Eckart Fingberg, series author and director (“Die Abenteuer des jungen Marco Polo“, “Tilda Apfelkern“, “Der kleine Ritter Trenk“) shows how to turn good ideas into successful concepts for animated series for TV and Web.
An event of the Creative Europe Desks Munich and Strasbourg.

Presented by: Eckart Fingberg

Re-telling of ‚Peterchens Mondfahrt‘
Sat, May 4, Metropol 3, 10:30 am, Language: German

„Peterchens Mondfahrt“ (“Little Peter’s Journey to the Moon“) is a classic German children’s book. The fairy-tale was written by Gerdt von Bassewitz in 1912 with its theatre premiere in the same year. Since then, numerous book and audio versions as well as two film adaptions have been produced. With the modern film version in full CG by Little Dream Entertainment, the challenge was to transfer the values and role concepts during the reign of the German emperor to today’s day and age. The director and screenplay author Ali Samadi Ahadi and screenplay writer Arne Nolting recount the process from implementing the idea to the finished scipt.

Presented by: Ali Samadi Ahadi, Arne Nolting

Masterclass – ‚Character Performance, Acting and Storytelling for Animation‘
Sun, May 5, Metropol 3, 10:30 am, Language: English

This Masterclass focuses on acting, physical performance, behavior, staging and storytelling, as driven by the details of character, and relationship to events, objects, environment and other characters in a story, scene or shot. The work is aimed at animators, directors, producers, writers, voice performers, story boarders, riggers, previs artists, performance capture teams – all professional crew, students or faculty interested in creating clear and powerful visual and narrative work.

Presented by: Myrna Gawryn

Normaal Animation (Paris) and Christophe Erbes present ‚Ella, Oscar & Hoo‘:
Wed, May 1st, Metropol 2, 2 pm

After seeing THE MONK & THE FISH, Christophe Erbes (PREMIERE/ SKY Germany, SuperRTL, Nickelodeon and Jetix/ Disney XD), wrote the bestsellers with animation genious Michael Dudok de Wit. He developed the TV concept at the Kindermedien Akademie (Erfurt), presented it at Animation Production Days (Stuttgart) and Cartoon. The little daydreamer Oscar, Ella his dynamic neighbour and friend, and Hoo, a little cloud, are playing in their garden and learning emotions – feet on the ground but head in the cloud! After 500 x 1,5‘ Peanuts shorts, the French studio Normaal produced 52 episodes of 11‘ with Canal+, SVT,
YLE & Creative Europe. Soon available in Germany: “ELLA OSKAR UND HUU, Kopf in der Wolke” (after the books “OSKAR UND HUU” at Sauerländerverlag).

PRESENTED BY: Christophe Erbes

Blue Spirit (Paris) presents ‚Arthur and the Children of the Round Table‘:
Wed, May 1st, Metropol 2, 4 pm

Founded in 2005, Blue Spirit Productions is an animation studio with large animation facilities in Paris, Angoulême (France) and Montreal (Canada). They develop and produce feature films and TV series including the Oscar nominated “My Life as a Courgette”. Their most recent series is “Arthur and the Children of the Round Table”, which was an unique and wonderful co-production experience with SWR & Canal+, which will be the spotlight of the presentation. These animated series are an epic comedy, set in the ancient times of magic and chivalry. These hilarious adventures feature young Arthur and his friends as they valiantly protect Camelot and the mighty sword Excalibur from the Kingdoms‘ enemies.

PRESENTED BY: Benjamin Manns, Eleanor Coleman, Jean-Luc François

ON Animation Studios (Montreal) and Lino DiSalvo (New York) present ‚Making of Playmobil – The Movie‘
Thu, May 2, Metropol 2, 4 pm

PLAYMOBIL: THE MOVIE takes audiences on an epic comedy adventure in the first-ever feature film inspired by PLAYMOBIL® role-play toys. Director Lino DiSalvo, 16-years veteran of Walt Disney Animation studios brings his wealth of experience to celebrate the DNA of PLAYMOBIL through a sprawling imaginative universe. Join this exclusive presentation about Lino DiSalvo’s journey in the realm of animation and what it takes to create successful stories with appealing characters.

PRESENTED BY: Lino DiSalvo

Tumblehead (Viborg) present ‚Tales of the Multiverse‘
Fri, May 3, Metropol 2, 2 pm

Tumblehead was founded in 2011 and they have since then worked to explore and refine their own approach to design animation and overall production. They continuously work to improve their pipeline to be more agile in order to spend less time thinking about technicalities and more on being creative. Tumblehead will screen their brand-new short film “Tales from the Multiverse” for the very first time. The lecture will mainly be a thorough “making of” to show some of their approaches, both artistically and technically.

PRESENTED BY: Magnus Igland Møller, Mette Tange and Peter Smith

30 Years Studio FILM BILDER (Stuttgart) – Kids
Fri, May 3, Metropol 2, 4 pm

Alongside the production of films for adults, Studio Film Bilder’s work for children plays an equal role. For this they have won many prizes including two Grimme Awards. Their first major children’s series was “TOM & Das Erbeermarmeladebrot mit Honig”. This was followed by the “Ich kenne ein Tier” animal stories by graduates of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, from which two further series projects developed: “Meine Schmusedecke” and the “Animanimals” series of short films.

PRESENTED BY: Thomas Meyer-Hermann

30 Years Studio FILM BILDER (Stuttgart) – Adult
Fri, May 3, Metropol 2, 6 pm

Studio Film Bilder looks back on 30 years of producing animated shorts, music videos, TV series, and feature films. They focused on individual design and original storytelling right from the start, adding continuous cooperation with top-class directors. This led to artistically successful as well as highly popular results and more than 250 festival awards. The youtube.com/filmbilder channel has 500,000 subscribers.

PRESENTED BY: Thomas Meyer-Hermann

Leading universities will present their students’ current animated works. These presentations are worth visiting especially for young people considering working in the animation and film business.

The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School Lodz
Wed, May 1st, Metropol 3, 3 pm

The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz is one of the oldest and most prestigious film schools in the world. Its mission is to educate directors and cinematographers of live-action, documentary and animated films, lighting designers, still photographers, editors, screenwriters, producers and actors. In 2019 they celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the “Animation & Special Effects” Faculty. Focus in teaching is the design and making of animation films and special effects with the usage of various types of digital and analogue cameras and computer programmes. The teaching programme covers: film form production, film special effects, direction of photography, cinematographic animation, graphic design and computer animation, aspects of sound and film editing, direction of photography technology and techniques. Skillful storytelling, bold themes, diversity of animation techniques, experiment and improvisation are the features that distinguish animated short films from the School.

PRESENTED BY: Kacper Zamarlo,
CURATED BY: Krzysztof Brzezowski

Middlesex University London, Animation Course
Wed, May 1, Metropol 2, 6 pm

Since the early 1980s, graduates of the Animation degree at Middlesex University have gone on to become some of the biggest names in British animation. Alumni include Joanna Quinn, who has twice been nominated for an Academy Award and Neville Astley, co-creator of the award-winning children‘s series “Peppa Pig”. BA Animation at Middlesex is a multi-disciplinary programme that embraces all aspects of animated filmmaking. Students explore a broad range of animation techniques and have access to outstanding animation facilities. Their BAFTA winning academic team, led by Associate Professor Jonathan Hodgson includes Chris Shepherd and Osbert Parker, all of who are acclaimed animation directors, combining teaching with personal filmmaking. They all believe passionately in the importance of formal and conceptual experimentation as a means to developing innovative approaches to animation. Students are encouraged to develop their own vision as artists, animators, designers and directors.

PRESENTED BY AND CURATED BY: Jonathan Hodgson

Hong Kong School of Creative Media
Thu, May 2, Metropol 3, 5 pm

As the region’s first institution of this kind, the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, was founded to nurture interdisciplinary artists and creative media professionals that bridge the boundaries between art and technology, and between traditional and new media. Now after two decades of growth, the School continues to espouse and advance these aims as the clear leader in its field. Students are trained across a range of disciplines spanning photography, animation, film, interactive media, gaming, installation art and digital media. This screening presents animation films made by students of the School, ranging from abstract to award-winning, from thought-provoking to “very Hong Kong”.

Presented and curated by: Max Hattler

GOBELINS, l‘école de l‘image (Paris)
Fri, May 3, Metropol 3, 3 pm

For over fifty years, GOBELINS has been at the forefront of image creation and part of the “Paris Ile-de-France Chamber of Commerce and Industry”. One thousand students are enrolled every year, including five hundred apprentices and two hundred trainees of further education. The school offers courses in photography, printed communication and plurimedia, animation, graphic design, motion design, interactive design, and game design. GOBELINS presents its 2017 and 2018 graduation films, directed by the two international and francophone classes from the MA course in Character Animation and Animated Filmmaking. Also presented are the 2017 and 2018 opening films for the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, directed by the second-year francophone students of the “Concepteur et réalisateur de films d‘animation” programme.

PRESENTED BY: Emilie Mercier
CURATED BY: Moïra Marguin

Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart
Sat, May 4, Metropol 3, 5 pm

Hochschule der Medien (HdM, Stuttgart Media University) will show a selection of student works that were produced in the last months. The movies shown are projects of one semester called “studio production”. They cover areas such as computeranimation, visual effects (VFX) or film and will give you an impression of the education at the HdM. At the end of the screening you will have the chance to take part in a discussion with the faculty members of the HdM, who are looking forward to an interesting exchange.

PRESENTED BY: Prof. Bernd Eberhardt and colleagues

Filmakademie and Animationsinstitut Baden-Württemberg
Sun, May 5, Gloria 2, 2 pm

At the ITFS, you get an exclusive opportunity to see the latest Filmakademie projects from the whole range of animation and education years – whether that is Cinematic Design 1 and 2, or third-year and diploma projects by students at the Animationsinstitut specializing in animation and interactive media up to the Filmakademie postgraduate diploma programme “Motion Design”. Featured are all variants and techniques. You are invited to experience the Filmakademie projects on the big
screen and get to meet the filmmakers in person. The event is hosted and presented by the students themselves.

For additional information please visit: www.filmakademie.de/www.animationsinstitut.de

Sat, May 4, Metropol 3, 3 pm

Work in Progress

The section “Work in Progress” allows producers and directors to present their animated feature length film projects in front of animation professionals from all over the globe, who in turn have the opportunity to be among the first to see new and interesting productions. Four quality projects, ranging from the state of “in concept” to “in production”, will be presented in 20 minutes slots (including a Q&A session). In their presentations the producers and directors will not only talk about their productions, but also show first footage and trailers of their film projects. Producer Richard Lutterbeck will present ‚Fritzi – Eine Wendewundergeschichte‘, producer Lilian Klages will present ‚Latte Igel und der Magische Wasserstein‘, director Signe Baumane will talk about ‚My Love Affair with Marriage‘ und director Shoko Hara will bring along the short film project ‚Just A Guy‘.