Line-up Announced & Tickets On Sale For 16th Annual Giraf Animation Festival
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GIRAF is a celebration of independent animation, a showcase of the best of what’s being made here in
Canada and around the world.
Each year, we scour the globe for the most astounding, inventive, beautiful, mind-altering and
unexpected animated films out there. For 2020, we’re bringing 80+ shorts and features to animation fans
across Alberta, plus artist talks, interviews, and workshops exploring the art of animation.
Screenings are online and on demand, and are available to Alberta audiences only. Watch whenever you
like, or follow our Discord Watch Party schedule to hang out with the QAS team and animation fans
around the province, and share in the celebration of independent animated art!
Christiane Cegavske-(Portrait: Robin Loznak) “Seed in th -Sand”
TL:DR Version:
- GIRAF16 runs November 19-29, on demand across Alberta
- Artist talk and animation workshop with Vancouver-based GIF and expanded cinema artist
ANNA FIRTH - Independent animator JONNI PHILLIPS shares their 45-minute hand-made animated film
THE FINAL EXIT OF THE DISCIPLES OF ASCENSIA - Artist talk with 2019 Guggenheim Fellow CHRISTIANE CEGAVSKE, including a work-in-
progress glimpse at upcoming feature SEED IN THE SAND) - 15th anniversary retrospective screening of Cegavske’s dialogue-free 2005 feature BLOOD TEA AND RED STRING (“a David Lynchean fever dream on Beatrix Potter territory,” per VARIETY)
- Nine packs of shorts in competition, with 80+ films from 30 countries
- Full line-up, festival passes and tickets available through http://giraffest.ca
- Festival artwork and signal film by Calgary-based illustrator and animator SHEENA AGNEW