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open
Monday - Thursday:
5.30pm - 10.00pm
Friday: 5.30pm - 11.00pm
Saturday: 12.30pm - 11.00pm
Sunday: 4.00pm - 11.00pm
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Drop
in, hang out, recuperate between screenings, catch up with friends
and colleagues, check out what’s on, talk toons, buy a catalogue,
vote for your favourite film, grab a drink or something to nibble
on, and take in some special programming. It will be the base for
many of those ‘little moments’ that make a festival
memorable. See and be seen, watch the filmmakers watching you, talk/
ponder/think/argue animation. It will host a number forums, special
screenings and impromptu Q&As throughout the festival.
You’ll find the Festival Club
at the bottom of the escalators just inside the Flinders St entrance.
Bean bags provided by the wonderful
folk at Crumpler.
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the official MIAF08 catalogue only
$7 bucks!
Chocoblock full of animation goodness!
Available in the Club and outside cinemas.
Collect your official MIAF08 catalogue for the very
tiny price of $7 bucks! You'll discover guest essays, articles,
interviews and extended program info not found anywhere else! There
are limited copies available, so snap up that change and bag a copy
before they disappear forever!
> more
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| monday
16, 6.00pm - 7.00pm / 9.00pm - 10.00pm
opening night celebration
To help us kick start MIAF08,
join us in the Club to celebrate the launch of the 8th edition
of MIAF.
> Don't miss out on the:
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| Wednesday
18, 5.30pm - 10.00pm
music
video set
Leave all those mainstream music
video TV shows alone, grab a drink or a nibbly, enjoy a selection
of current clips created by animators from around the world,
plucked straight from over 2,000 films submitted to MIAF08.
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| friday
20, 7.30pm
wift
forum: women in production
Enjoy a feast of dynamic women speakers in our Women in Production
Forum in the Festival Club after the WIFT Program screening.
Annemarie Szeleczky, a Melbourne based Director, will screen
a selection of her works and provide some insight into her
drawing and animation, followed by two Oscar winning Producers,
our own Mel Coombs of Harvie Crumpet fame, and our special
MIAF guest from the National Film Board in Canada, Marcy Page,
who will showcase segments of their work and discuss life
at the top of the Producer tree.
All our speakers are keen to answer
questions, so bring along those notebooks and fire away. Show
your MIAF ticket stub from the WIFT Screening for a free glass
of wine at the festival bar and stay as long as you like.
> Also
see
WIFT Program, Friday 20 @ 6.15pm
Studio Focus: Animose Studio Russia,
Sat 21 @ 1.30pm
Australian Panorama, Saturday 21 @ 2.30pm
Australian Forum, Saturday 21 @ 4pm
Marcy Page, Sunday 22 @ 5.45pm
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| saturday
21, 12.30pm-3.30pm
dog star in the
club & colouring comp
Kids – come on into the Festival Club, grab a giant
line drawing of your favourite Dogstar character and colour
it in. The first 100 Kids who complete their own picture even
get to take home their very own adorable ‘Hobart’
soft toy. Up on
the screen you’ll be able to watch some of the best
bits from the Dogstar series and even little segments of unfinished
programs so you can see what it looks like while they’re
still making it.
Bring your
favourite textas, colour pencils or crayons along so you don't
have to share!
“Dogstar” is one of
the best Kids TV animation shows you’ll find anywhere.
Sophisticated humour and extremely well developed characters
are among its strengths. It traces the adventures of the Clark
family kids and their trusty dog ‘Hobart’ who,
along with every dog on earth, was put on a giant space ark
- the Dogstar - when humans decided to go look for New Earth.
Unfortunately the Dogstar seems to have gotten lost and the
Clark kids have borrowed Dad’s spaceship and they’re
on a mission to find Hobart.
> Check
out the Kids Program Saturday 21 @ 11.00am
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| saturday
21, 4.00pm
australian forum:
what to do with your animation
Immediately after the Australian
Panorama screening, join the filmmakers in the festival Club
to talk about animating in Australia. The atmosphere is informal
and relaxed. The aim is to get as many perspectives as possible
on the local animation scene as it stands right now –
the challenges, the opportunities, the path ahead.
A Forum Panel will get things
underway. The panel will be made up of animators, producers
and managers who are finding ways of taking their animating
skills out into the ‘real world’ through such
means as creating animated clips for viral marketing campaigns,
commissioning & producing idents for a local TV channel
and making one-off ads – all done without sacrificing
the creative core of their artform. But discussion will likely
range much wider than that and everybody will have a chance
to have their say about what they saw in the Australian Panorama
and how they think animation is travelling in Australia in
2008.
Also see:
Australian Panorama
Australian Forum
Australian Graduate Panorama
Animation 101's
WIFT Forum
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| sunday
22, 9.30pm
closing night
celebration
Judge the judges. Discuss
the results. Talk animation for one last time in the Club
After a marathon 7 days of amazing animation from around the
world, catching up with friends, making new ones and living
on a questionable diet as you skip from cinema to cinema,
it's now time to have a final drink and recount those memorable
moments.
Last one standing, turn out the
lights...
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