Daily Newsletter 2013

VIDEOS OF THE DAY

Shorts and Breakfast

Presented by Marcel Jean, with Bill and Sandrine Plympton

Khumba

Oggy and the Cockroaches, the Movie

FOCUS ON

The Mifa: a really international event

The Mifa is confirming its internationalisation with a strong presence from South America, South Africa and Eastern European countries, with Poland being the guest country. Interview with Mickaël Marin.

"This will be my 12^th year at the Mifa and throughout this time we have been continually trying to internationalise the event, with efforts accelerated over the past 4 or 5 years.
Internationalisation is part of the DNA of animation, given the need for creating co-productions, which requires finding partners outside home territories to finance and create new projects. As the Market deals with all the stages of a project's development, it plays a leading role in putting people in contact for getting films off the ground.
We have built up excellent and sustainable exchanges with a number of countries, which have helped us to understand each territory's concerns and guide them in preparing their visit to Annecy. The Territory Focus was created to reinforce this and spotlight industries from different countries.

South America
This year, we are welcoming delegations from Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. This trend is also confirmed by the presence of films in selection from Brazil and Argentina.

Africa
As the realisation of the efforts we have been making for 2 years, we are happy to welcome the Heading South Focus once again this year."

Mickaël Marin

Pixar’s RenderMan 25 Years Greater

Pixar's RenderMan is celebrating 25 years! It's pioneering contributions to computer graphics have revolutionised the feature film industry.

Used in 19 out of the last 21 Oscar-winning movies for VFX, RenderMan is the industry standard and has been honored with multiple awards for technological innovation by the Academy of Motion Pictures. To commemorate RenderMan’s 25^th anniversary, the celebrations commence at Mifa 2013.

Happy birthday to you!

4th TFou animation competition, 2:30-4:30 pm

Discover the winner of the 4th TFou animation competition at 2:30 pm

Children have voted for five 30-second shorts illustrating the slogan "TFou, y’a pas plus fou !" on www.tfou.fr. The winning film, chosen by the kids, will be screened on TFou on 14^th, 15^th and 16^th June 2013.

Announcement of the new talents competition Challenge TFou: presentation of the competition theme and new conditions.

Everyone welcome!

SCREENING EVENTS

Oggy and the Cockroaches, the Movie

13 June (08:30 pm)

Follow Oggy's adventures and his constant battle with the cockroaches from prehistoric times to the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution. Release date France: 7th August 2013

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HIGHLIGHTS

Rendez-vous of the day

9:30 am: "VFX: The State of Technical and Artistic Art" conference

10:30 am: sneak preview screening of Khumba, feature film in competition, salle des haras

11:15 am: WIP Loulou, the Incredible Secret, salle Pierre Lamy

Audience Award – vote for your favourite feature at Décavision salles 3, 4
2:00 pm: Buratino´s Return
8:30 pm: Arjun, the Warrior Prince

2:00 pm: Making of Epic, with Director, Chris Wedge, salle Pierre Lamy

4:00 and 8:30 pm: Audience Award – vote for your favourite short at Décavision salle 1
Short films in competition 04

4:00 pm: NFB press conference at the Festival Bar/Partners' Club, haras; for the new "McLaren Workshop" app giving privileged access to Norman McLaren's films and users the possibility of creating personal films inspired by the 3 techniques popularised by the filmmaker.

8:30 pm: Vote for the funniest film, every evening from Monday to Thursday, by attending the 8:30 pm screening at Décavision, salle 2. The films selected by this vote will be screened on Friday evening at 8:30 pm, Décavision, salle 2. The funniest film for 2013 will then be chosen through a final vote!

10:15 pm: Open-air screening of Oggy and the Cockroaches, the Movie.