Horror Panorama

Les Bessones del Carrer de Ponent (2010), Marc Riba & Anna Solanas

The International Panorama program aims to bring the Anima Mundi audience the most interesting animations made recently in the world. Within this proposal, we created a special selection with the horror theme. Divided into two programs, Horror Panorama offers the animated thrills from different countries like Spain, Belgium, South Korea, France and UK.

In Horror Panorama 1, the audience will see the Joris Leopold's Blue Awaking, where a singer loses control of his voice when the devil himself take over the band's drum sticks. For Horror Panorama 2, those who are a fan of George Romero's zombie movies will surely enjoy House Guest, the story of a duck who has just died and returned to life planning an unusual revenge against the hunter who killed him.

Ben Mitchel's House Guest(2010)

Check out the Horror Panorama schedule:

Panorama Terror 1: Teatro II CCBB 16/07-20:00; 18/07-12:30 Cinema 2 CCBB RJ 17/07-16:30; 25/07-18:30 Fund. Memorial da América Latina - Sala 3; 29/07-13:30; 01/08-21:30;Auditório CCBB SP 30/07-19:30

Panorama Terror 2:

Praça Animada 18/07-21:00 Unibanco Arteplex Botafogo 21/07-22:00; Cinema 1 CCBB RJ22/07-17:30; 25/07-19:30; Cinema Odeon BR 23/07-20:00

The Apple and the Worm

There's something new in the state of Denmark: The Apple & the Worm is one of the attractions today in the Anima Mundi. It's an animation feature film drawn completely in tablets and then finished with the software TVP Animation. The film tells the story of Torben, who, like any other apple, is anxious, cynical and afraid to get sick. His greatest ambition in life is to be the most perfect apple from the supermarket. But an unexpected problem - the kind os problem that comes from inside a fruit - may hinder their plans.

Watch the trailer here (and improve your Danish!)

Those who do not speak the language can rest easy, the copy at exibibition in the Anima Mundi is subtitled in portuguese :)

Mary & Max

For those who stay late at CCBB and Casa França Brasil for the screenings and workshops, here's the good one: at 21:00, there's a screening of Mary & Max in the Animated Square. Written and directed by Adam Eliott, Mary and Max is done entirely in stop-motion, and tells the story of a lonely girl from the suburbs of Melbourne who starts a long-distance relationship with Max Horovitz, a heavyset man who lives in the chaos of New York with Asperger Syndrome, and dreams of "living on the moon, to avoid contact with people." Without losing the humorous tone, from the friendship relationship between the two, the film deals with serious topics such as autism, alcoholism, obesity, kleptomania trust, religious differences and even "where the babies come from ".

The film features the voices of Bethany Whitmore in the role of Mary as a girl, Toni Collette in the adulthood, and Philip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal of Max. Director Adam Eliott already won a prize in Anima Mundi's 2004 edition, for his short film Harvie Krumpet.

Pixilation and Graffiti at Oi Futuro

The Anima Mundi workshop Pixilation gained an ally at Oi Futuro, in Flamengo: the graffiti. Graffiti artist and animator Meton Joffily is finalizing today a background on which the public can interact with Pixilation animated scenes and stickers that will be bonded to the graphite (Mamemu, the Meton's crew, is calling it 'Sticker Animation'). There will be a demonstration for this technique to the public, followed by animation with Anima Mundi's crew. Always from 12:00 to 18:00. Take a look at the first drawings:

That's the way the graffiti scene was at the end of Friday 16th, but the workshop just opened!

Anima Mundi 2010: the opening session

It's about time! We can say that last Friday the Anima Mundi came of age, celebrating his 18 years through all the program (you can check it here). But last Monday, directors, sponsors, and some guests of the festival could already watch at the Animated Square a little of what comes ahead in an opening session. Conducted once again by actor and director Fernando Caruso, who already has a history with the festival, the session gave a brief overview of the Anima Mundi has to offer among the special exhibitions and competitive program.

Aida Queiroz, Marcos Magalhaes, Cesar Coelho, Léa Zagury, directors of Anima Mundi, gave their messages before the session begun. Aida presented some statistics that show how the animation industry in Brazil has grown along with the festival. A recent survey revealed that in the period between 1910 and 1992 about 171 animated films were produced in Brazil, including features and shorts. Since 1993, the year of the first Anima Mundi, and until this year, the festival received entries from more than 2600 animations, a concrete evidence of the strength of the festival by the Brazilian industry of animation. "As animators we are, is a great emotion," she added.

Cesar Coelho took the opportunity to remember the beginning of the festival: in 1993, only two rooms were used at the CCBB for the first edition of the event - that crowded. The following year, the Cultural Center of Correios gave its partnership. From the third year, the public could see the largest sessions in the first version of the Animated Square. And the rest is history. Marcos Magalhaes didin't forget to celebrate the anniversary, and wished that everyone can feel as if had 18 years in this issue, and Lea Zaguri thanked the fundamental presence at the festival: the animators.

Marcos Magalhães, Léa Zagury, Cesar Coelho e Aida Queiroz, the Anima Mundi directors

Among the films, the audience watched the Brazilian Anjos do meio da praça, derected by Ale Camargo e Camila Carrossine, an impressive work of 3D computer animation; Der Da Vinci Timecode, from Gil Alkabetz, where the image of one of the most famous paintings in the world is fragmented to form movements secret and unusual; the institutional Rise Above Plastics, from the Surfrider Foundation and the exhilarating Runaway, from Canadian Cordell Baker, one of our guests this year. All of them, of course, can be found here. Schedule up!

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Alê Camargo and Camila Carrossine's Anjos do meio da praça

Feature Film: Boogie, el aceitoso

In this edition, Anima Mundi presents in its feature program the 2D animation Boogie, el aceitoso, the first Argentine film to use stereoscopic 3D technology, adapted from a comic book created by Argentine cartoonist Robert 'el negro' Fontanarossa. Boogie, el aceitoso is the second meeting of the Brazilian public with the unmistakable trace of Fontanarossa: in 2009, Anima Mundi screened the animated feature Martin Fierro, adaptation of the Argentine classic epic poem in which Fontanarossa collaborated in script and character design.

Boogie, a violent mercenary and ruthless killer, began to be published in Colombia's El Tiempo in the 1970s and later in Mexican newspaper Proceso. The character was also present in several Argentine publications, such as Mood and La Maga. Twelve 12 albums were released by Argentina's Boogie Ediciones de la Flor, who also publishes some of Argentina's finest, such as Quino and Liniers. Boogie had editions in Italy, Colombia and Brazil, where it was published by L&PM as Boogie, o seboso.

Roberto Fontanarrosa became internationally known for his work on cartoons and comics. His other famous characters include the gaucho Pereyra Mendieta and his dog Mendieta. Fontanarossa died on July 19, 2007, at age 62.

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Watch the official trailer here:

Schedule:

RJ:

Centro Cultural Correios - Praça Animada 16/07-21h, 23/07-21h

Unibanco Arteplex Botafogo 17/07-22:00

Cinema 1 CCBB RJ 20/07 - 17h30

Odeon BR 24/07/2010 - 20h

SP:

Fund. Memorial da América Latina - Sala 2 29/07 - 23h

Fund. Memorial da América Latina - Sala 1 30/07/2010 - 20h

Special Showcase: International Schools

Aiming to promote the animation industry in Brazil, Anima Forum invites all kinds of market professionals for lectures and discussions during four days at Anima Mundi. This year, besides the Masterclasses, we'll have members of three international schools of animation as special guests: Eric Riewe, from Gobelins, in France, Maureen Furniss, of CalArts (USA), and Marlene Nascimento, from the Image and Sound Course at the University of Buenos Aires. As a complement of their visit and the debate, the festival will present showcases of graduation films by former students of these schools.

Gobelins

Gobelins' animation department, l'école de l'image, was founded 30 years ago, and prepare artists for the growing need of the French animation industry in the 1970s. Today, students from Gobelins are present not only in animation studios all over France, but also in major international labels, such as Dreamworks, Sony, Disney, Pixar and many others, and they are recognized for their technical excellence and creative for its high professional level.

The Gobelins program in Anima Mundi presents short films made by its students during the last two decades. The first of them is the segment that serves as an introduction in all official sessions of the International Festival of Animated Film in Annecy, France. In the sequence, the short films made for the final projects of the course, made in 2D or 3D. Three of these films include a making of the production process.

Anima Facta Est (2007), animação coletiva da escola Gobelins

Henry Sellick (Coraline, Nightmare Before Christmas), Brenda Chapman (Prince of Egypt) and Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall.E) are among the "notable students" from The California Institute of the Arts. Since 1961, the Calarts maintains its tradition of promoting a unique and privileged environment for students from all areas of art live together closely, in full collaboration.

Part of the former students attended the Department of Experimental Animation (Experimental Animation), created by Jules Engels. This department focuses on the practice and principles of visual arts, including animation as an art form dynamic and constantly evolving. Other former students, now influential in the animation industry today, formed by the Department of Character Animation (Character Animation) created in 1975, in which the main focus is training in classical animation connected to a deep understanding of the art of acting, also applied to modern techniques like computer graphics.

The "Calarts... and its Distinguished Alumni" Showcase will be divided into two sessions at the Anima Mundi, alternating between the two visions of the course, reflecting the coexistence of stimulating experimentation and application of the art of animation, as in day-to-day school campus in Valencia.

Wormholes (1992), from Stephen Hillenburg, the brilliant creator of SpongeBob,

UBA

Within the course of Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires, the discipline Audiovisual Design 3 - Animation is offered to the students, and it deals with basic concepts of animation and its various techniques. The training includes the management of production and resource management in order to develop films and the possible absorption by the market, in private and public sectors. As the final course, students perform a short film individually or in groups, with free choice of technique and theme proposed by the Chair.

The current professor of animation course, our guest Marlene Nascimento, made a selection with some examples of work developed by students for the third special session of the schools in the Anima Mundi.

Our guest Marlene Nascimento, the current professor of the animation course, made a selection with some examples of their works for the third special session of the schools in the Anima Mundi.

Florencia Blanc's Un Pequeño Vagabundo (2008),

one of the short films from the UBA program

Check here the locations and schedules of special exhibitions of the schools of animation:

Gobelins: Rio de Janeiro - Sat 17 - Cinema 2 CCBB - 18h30 / Sun 18 - Oi Futuro Ipanema - 15h30 /

Mon 19 - Arteplex - 14h / Sat 24 - Teatro II - 17h30 / Sun 25 - Odeon BR - 18h30 São Paulo - Sat 31 - Memorial Video - 15h / Sun 01 - Memorial 2 - 19h

Calarts:

Program 1

Rio de Janeiro - Fri 16 - Oi Futuro Flamengo - 13h30 / Sat 17 - Teatro II - 14h / Sun 18 - Cinema 1 CCBB - 19h30 / Fri 23 - Cinema 2 CCBB - 16h30 / Sat 24 - Teatro II - 12h30 / Sun 25 - Odeon BR - 15h30 São Paulo - Wed 28 - Memorial Video - 18h / Sun 01 - Memorial Video - 15h

Sessão 2 Rio de Janeiro - Sat 17 - Oi Futuro Ipanema - 13h30 / Tue 20 - Cinema 2 CCBB - 18h30 / Fri 23 - Cinema 2 CCBB - 18h30 / Sat 24 - Teatro II - 14h / Sun 25 - Odeon BR - 17h São Paulo - Wed 28 - Memorial Video - 16h30 / Sun 01 - Memorial Video - 16h30

UBA: Rio de Janeiro - Sat 17 - Teatro II - 10h30 / Sun 18 - Oi Futuro Ipanema - 13h30 / Wed 21 - Arteplex - 14h / Sat 24 - Teatro II - 15h30 / Sun 25 - Teatro II - 14h

São Paulo - Wed 28 - Memorial Video - 13h30 / Sun 01 - Memorial Video - 18h

Animation and documentary

In 2009, the presence of Priit Parn in Anima Mundi revealed to the Brazilian audience that Estonia is very well situated on the animation's world map. Maybe we can find the largest population of animators in its 45,000 km square, producing some of the wildest, most innovative films of the genre.

In this edition, we prepared a special screening of Mait Laas' documentary The kings of time (Aja Meistrid), aiming to show how traditional the culture of animation in Estonia is. In a mixture of archival footage and animation, the film reveals the story of two great names of Estonian animation, Elbert Tuganov and Heino Pars, who have become masters of their craft. Tuganov is the creator of Ott in Outer Space (1962), a puppet animation who achieved international notoriety. Heino Pars, who started as an assistant Tuganov, is also a pioneer: Nael, his 1972 feature film, is one of the first Estonian animations to present an abstract content. The social satire, frequently targeting the Soviet political system, was also prominent in the work of these two creators.

Mait Laas' The Kings of Time (2008)

And the International Panorama program also reserves a special selection of films in which the documentary language is blended with animation techniques. Panorama Documentary will present six short films demonstrating that the animated film can deal with the straightest form of reality, sometimes even more efficient than photographic images. Among the short films selection includes Samantha Moore's The Beloved Ones, about the difficulties of two Ugandan women living with HIV; Tanko Bole Chhe, which reveals the art and the passion of Kutch's artisans in the region in India, and Rattus Rattus, a Brazilian animation about the sanitary campaign made by Oswaldo Cruz in the streets of Rio de Janeiro.

Nina Sabnani's Tanko Bole Chhe (2009)

South Africa in exhibition

The Tale of How (2007), a film by Ree Treweek and Jannes Hendrikz
featured in South Africa special exibition

As Soccer fans, we are profoundly sad about Brazil's departure in World Cup. But, if there's any consolation for us, we can say that Brazil is always very well represented every year in Anima Mundi. And in this edition the same applies to the venue for the 2010 World Cup: the South Africa special program will offer a sample of what is best in animation from the country, revealing the variety of styles and aesthetics of this industry in development .

Brent Dawes' Because You’re Gorgeous (2007)

South Africa is still relatively unknown in the world of animation. But that is about to change, and we hope that this collection of films (the first of its kind outside the country) highlights the diversity of this growing industry. Altogether, the program presents 28 South African animations, including short features, video clips, commercial and institutional films, compiled by Animation SA, a nonprofit organization that represents the animation in South Africa.

Anthony Silverston's The Slipper Cycle (2003)

As examples of the animation in South Africa is booming and deserves to be seen, three features are in production now in the country, to be released next year: The Lion of Judah, Jock of the Bushveld and Zambezia. And for those who work in local industry, we hope that 2010 is also remembered as the year that the local animation has become world famous!

Jacquie Trowell's Beyond Freedom (2006), an animation that mixes

different techniques to discuss about the struggle toward democracy and freedom.

By the way, we also would like to show some sportsmanship here at Anima Mundi: Netherlands brings 10 productions to the festival this year, and five of them are in the competitive program :)

Anima Mundi 2010: the films

Brazil, Australia, France, Canada, Denmark, Ukraine, Japan, Cuba, Switzerland, Latvia, Argentina and another 35 countries: you can already check the complete list of Anima Mundi 2010 films on the website.

In the following days, you will find more details about some of them here, begining with the feature-length movies. Stay tuned!