Tickets Now Available For Brighton International Animation Festival 2024
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The Brighton International Animation Festival is set to take place for the third year running on Friday 5th, Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th April 2024. Thanks to the huge sell-out success of last year, the festival has added an extra day – hosted at The Queery on Friday 5th April – and Saturday & Sunday’s programme will be held at Brighton’s iconic Fabrica venue.
The festival is a fantastic celebration of traditional and modern animation, and this year is no different. You will get to see the spectacular 1954 cel animation Animal Farm as it celebrates its 70th anniversary, while also experiencing the best in the next generation of filmmakers – UK and International. The Brighton International Animation Festival is also the only UK festival to host an AR exhibition alongside the programme. All films are subtitled with BSL interpreters at all events, making it fully accessible for deaf & hard of hearing.
The 2024 prestige jury panel includes:
- Vivien Halas – daughter of British animation legends John Halas & Joy Batchelor and founder of the Halas & Batchelor film archive. She is the co-author of Halas & Batchelor, an animated history 2006 and A Moving Image, Joy Batchelor 1914-91, Artist, Writer and Animator 2014.
- Candy Guard – Creator of hit Channel 4 animation sitcom Pond Life and 13 award-winning animated shorts for Channel 4 and the BBC, including ‘Alternative Fringe’ about an unfortunate trip to the hairdressers, and ‘Fatty Issues’ about a 1-day diet. She will also be screening her new film She’s My Best Friend (But I Hate Her)’!
- Joseph Wallace – BAFTA Cymru nominated animation director, writer and producer. His award-winning work spans short films, music videos, commercials and sequences for feature films and television. He has written and directed more than a dozen short films since 2007, which have gained international acclaim and screened at festivals around the world as well as receiving Vimeo Staff Picks.
You can book tickets HERE for the jam-packed three-day programme, including:
New Generation
Look out for the next generation of filmmakers in this showcase of the best cutting edge of talent from both UK and International. Coming out stories, family relations the joys of Grace Jones are just some of the topics covered by this new generation of filmmakers, expect to see work from countries including Japan, Ukraine through to UK.
The (un)Natural World
Science, the environment and creatures of the earth are the focus of this programme. Expect sea creatures, insect specialists and hot-blooded flowers in the programme from countries including Taiwan, Iran and Sri Lanka.
Animal Farm
70th anniversary of the timeless classic Animal Farm produced by British Animation greats Halas and Batchelor and based on George Orwell’s 1945 novel. This shows traditional cel animation at its best, both the message and the methodology still stand the test of time today. The first animated entertainment feature film to come out of the UK it quickly became a staple in classrooms across the country, the United States and other English-speaking countries like Australia, Canada and New Zealand into the 2000s. Come down to The Story of Halas and Batchelor the presentation by Vivien Halas on the Saturday and learn more about the studio behind this classic film.
The festival will also continue to run Queer As F**K: a special curated programme of Queer Animation not seen in other animation festivals, that explores an array of contemporary queer culture, lesbian plumbers and gender f**kery to the drag queens of 1940’s Paris.
Visit the Brighton International Animation Festival website for more information and keep updated by following @brightonanimation on Instagram.