Encounters 2016 Festival Programme Announced
The Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival has announced the programme of events for its 22nd edition to take place in Bristol this September. As ever the festival boasts a wide variety of events, screenings, experiences and celebrations, with the full line-up available on their website.
Amongst this year’s edition’s animation highlights are six international competition screenings – The Weight of Humanity, Moving Pictures, Top of the Class, It’s Only Natural, A Look Inside and Art and Design – with animated films also a strong component of screenings such as Close Encounters of the Short Kind, Funny Looking Shorts, Family Friendly Shorts and the festivals legendary adults-only Late Lounge, this year supplemented by Late Lounge XXXtra.
Animation enthusiasts will also not want to miss Aardman’s 40th Anniversary Special, in which studio co-founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton will be presenting a Desert Island Flicks-style selection of studio highlights, including the recently remastered multi-artist collaborative music video for Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer.
Also present this year will be the talents of London based studio Nexus who will be presenting their latest developments in augmented and virtual reality animation, plus Oscar winning BreakThru Films Founder/Creative Director Hugh Welchman will present a behind-the-scenes look from his Polish studio at the long-awaited and much anticipated feature Loving Vincent.
Single tickets for film screenings and events can be purchased from today as well as Festival Passes that grant festivalgoers access to all festival activity.
Encounters 2016 takes place in Bristol from September 20th-25th. For the full line-up and updates visit encounters-festival.org.uk