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Flip Festival, is an animation festival primarily hosted by the Light House Media Centre in Wolverhampton, UK. It is one of two festivals hosted by Light House, the other of which is Deaffest. Official literature for the festival says that Flip occurs annually at the beginning of November and attracts submissions from more than 30 countries world wide. As well as screening the selected open submissions, Flip also consists of special screenings, talks from professionals within the animation world, workshops, industry panels, portfolio reviews and competitions.

The Festival

Based in Wolverhampton, the festival began in 2004 [1] and features a range of events from educational workshops for young people to experimental animation for grown ups; from industry led panels to feature film screenings and from international showcases and retrospectives of short films to spotlights on animation studios. Flip is organised and hosted by Light House Media Centre in partnership with the University of Wolverhampton‘s School of Art and Design and School of Computing & IT, Wolverhampton Art Gallery. It is part funded by UK Film Council (National Lottery) through Screen West Midlands; Wolverhampton City Council; University of Wolverhampton; Business Link West Midlands and West Midlands Animation Forum. [2]

Another programme Flip offers to visitors is ‘Big Screen Gaming’ in the smaller of the two cinemas. In 2009 Flip held a competition for participants to experience the Xbox 360 and one of its core games, Halo 3.

Another feature of Flip Festival is the curated programme hosted by a guest curator from within the animation world. Previous years have been curated by Professor Paul Wells (Director of Animation, Loughborough University) and The Brothers McLeod [3] whereas 2010 will be curated by Clare Kitson, who is a former programmer at the National Film Theatre and between 1989 and 1999, commissioned Channel 4’s animation.

Exhibitions

The exhibitions curated for Flip tend to communicate the animation message through different media/outlets. They have a continuing partnership with Wolverhampton Art Gallery who programme specific works on site as part of the Festival. During Flip 2008 the Light House building was home to large, moving, kinetic sculptures, by London based artist Steve Hutton. Flip 2007 saw an exhibition of original puppets used in films such as The Corpse Bride, Mars Attacks! and Andy Pandy, and the puppet designer Nick Roberson answered questions from the audience.

The Awards

The festival is a competition between animated films created using various techniques (stop motion, animated drawings, cut out paper, modelling clay, etc) classified in to various award categories. These have included the following:

  • Best of Festival
  • Best UK Film
  • Best International Film
  • Best Newcomer
  • Best Experimental Film [4]

Flip also runs competitions for student films, created by current university/college students and also for children under the age of 18 years old. [4]

Flip Festival 2010

Flip Festival 2010 has been organised for 4-6th November 2010.

The 2010 festival is also looking for young competition judges (aged 14-18), to help judge Flip '10 Young Animators Competition. [5]

Flip Festival 2009

2009’s Flip Festival took place on the 5-7th November. [6]

The award winners for 2009’s Festival were:

  • Best of Festival - Taku Kimura with Kudan.
  • Best UK Film - Steve Irwin with Black Dogs Progress.
  • Best International Film - Jake Armstrong with The Terrible Thing of Alpha 9, USA.
  • Best Newcomer - Kristian Andrews with Rabbit Punch
  • Best Experimental Film - Virginia Mori with Il Gioco de Silenzio (The Play of Silence).
  • Best Stop Motion - Bang Yao Lui with Deadline
  • Special Jury Mention - Ed Barrett with Man Up [7]

Flip Festival 2008

2008’s Flip Festival took place on the 6-8th November.

The award winners for 2008’s Festival were:

  • Best Film - Blu with Muto.
  • Best UK Film - Luis Cook with The Pearce Sisters.
  • Best International Film - Jeremy Clapin with Skhizein.
  • Best Abstract Film - Blu with Muto.
  • Best Sound Design - Alexei Alexeev with KJFG No5.
  • Best Newcomer - Tom Senior with One Nice Family Photo
  • Best Student Film - Reza Dolatabadi with Khoda [8]

Flip Festival 2007

2007’s Flip Festival took place on the 1-3rd November.

The award winners for 2007’s Festival were:

  • Best Film - Paul O’Flanagan with Beauty Now.
  • Special Mention - Julian Kok with Mimos and the Egg.
  • Best Student Film - Lizzy Hobbs with The Old, Old, Very Old Man. [9]

Best of Flip

Flip Festival also does several small screenings throughout the year of either just the award winners or all the selected submissions. The ‘Best of Flip’ is usually shown at various venues throughout the West Midlands and there will be a special screening at Artsfest ’10 in Birmingham, UK.

External Links

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/features/2004/10/flip/flip.shtml
  2. ^ http://flipfestival.co.uk/about/
  3. ^ http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/creative-industries-news/2009/01/25/mcleod-brothers-boost-flip-animation-festival-65233-22777130/
  4. ^ a b http://flipfestival.co.uk/submissions/
  5. ^ http://www.filmbirmingham.co.uk/Articles/FLIP_Animation_Festival.aspx/
  6. ^ http://www.awn.com/events/flip-animation-festival-2009/
  7. ^ http://flipfestival.co.uk/about/flip-festival-2009-5th-6th-november/
  8. ^ http://www.plotonline.co.uk/flip08/index.htm
  9. ^ http://flipfestival.co.uk/2007/11/08/flip-winners/
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