The 8th Athens International Animation Festival, called Animfest, will run from 7-13 March 2013 and feature dozens of animated films, shown at the Greek Film Archive/Film Museum, including many from other countries.
The festival includes an extensive tribute to French animation movies, with 64 films, as well as a tribute to the Polish studio SE-MA-FOR, with 19 movies.
Under the
title Neighbors’ Animation, nine films from various European countries, such as
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Poland and Lithuania, will be
screened.
As for the competition section, 84 animation short films will participate in the animation contest, 55 from which are student films and 24 Greek, while the festival also includes the following educational activities:
- Lecture by Rony Oren, animator and professor at the School of Fine Arts in Jerusalem, in AKTO on March 7.
- Masterclass by Oren in “New Technologies and Education” Master of the Early Childhood Education, University of Athens, on March 8.
- Workshop on Multimedia and Education, at the Film Archive on March 9.
More information on the website of Animfest.
info by : greekreporter.com
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