Tickets Now Available For Brighton International Animation Festival 2025
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The Brighton International Animation Festival is set to take place for the Fourth year running on Friday 4th, Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th April 2025. The festival was accredited by BAFTA last year putting Brighton on the map for animation, it being one of only 4 BAFTA qualifying animation festivals in the UK.
The festival is a fantastic celebration of contemporary animation, held at Brighton’s iconic Fabrica venue. This year introduces new programmes Fantastical Worlds and East Asian Panorama, celebrating the best new talent coming out of Japan, China et al. Other programmes include New Generation the best of new grad talent and an annual LGBTQ+ programme, Brighton International Animation Festival being the only animation festival in the UK that encompasses queer themes. It is also the only UK festival to host an Augmented Reality exhibition alongside the programme – this year the theme is Heroes so expect to see bees, plumbers and a whole array of characters brought to life on the walls of Fabrica! All films are subtitled with BSL interpreters at all screening events, making it fully accessible for deaf & hard of hearing.
The 2025 prestige jury panel includes:
- Dominic Minns – is Brighton Zoo’s BAFTA winning Co-Founder and Creative Director. He works in children’s television and is currently directing the first season of Mojo Swaptops after finishing the first two seasons of Supertato, both for CBeebies. Dom also created Tee and Mo, which quickly became an international success across multiple platforms, including short form for Youtube, apps, animated music videos, an album and 2 series on CBeebies.
- Izzy Burton – is an award-winning Director and Artist. She has worked for studios such as Netflix Animation, Aardman, Cartoon Network and Golden Wolf – to name just a few. In 2018 after the release of her award-winning short film “Via”, Izzy was named one of Animation Magazine’s “Rising Stars of Animation”.
- Comfort Arthur – is a British-born Ghanaian award-winning animator, illustrator and visual artist. She is the first Ghanaian animator to win the African Academy Movie awards for best animation for her web series I’m Living in Ghana Get Me Out of Here. She has also worked as the Episodic director for Cbeebies Animated preschool show JoJo and Gran Gran in the United Kingdom.
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. The trans experience, sea pollution and the joys of British
summertime are just some of the topics covered by this new generation of filmmakers, expect to see
work from countries including Italy, USA through to UK.
The Female Gaze
In second wave feminism Laura Mulvey presented the concept of The Male Gaze. This programme
subverts this and presents a selection of films either presenting the female experience or the world
through the eyes of a female director. Including documentary, narrative and experimental from
countries including Saudi Arabia, India and UK.
East Asian Panorama
Special out of competition programme featuring the stunning works coming out of East Asia and
diaspora, featuring countries including China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. Expect festivities, family
relations and more in this selection of both narrative and documentary films
Visit the Brighton International Animation Festival website for more information
and keep updated by following @brightonanimation on Instagram.