Dear MeCCSA,

 

This year Canterbury Anifest, 29^th-30^th September 2017, celebrates its 10^th anniversary! Here are a few reasons why you should consider getting involved/attending:

 

SPEAKERS:

The festival will welcome guest speakers Tom Sito (an animation legend talking about Disney and many other things), Jim Parkyn (Senior Model Maker at Aardman), Samantha Moore (award-winning animation documentarian), and Tom Box (Co-Founder and Director of Blue-Zoo Animation Studio). 

 

INTERNATIONAL FILM COMPETITION:

The festival also includes an international short animated film competition. Costing £5 to enter, the award categories include:  

Best British Film

Best International Film

Best Student Film

Best Animation*

Best Art Design*

Best Sound*

Audience Choice*

*All shortlisted films will automatically be entered in these categories. All shortlisted films will be screened during the festival weekend.

 

Full submission details can be found here: https://www.canterburyanifest.com/awards

 

But, in short, if you have students producing animated work less than 10 minutes long, please do encourage them to submit their films for consideration.

 

SYMPOSIUM:

https://www.canterburyanifest.com/cfp

Lastly, we also have a full-day symposium as part of the festival, themed around the subject of Walt Disney’s Snow White and Seven Dwarfs (1937) – a film that also celebrates a significant anniversary this year: it turns 80!

 

This interdisciplinary symposium invites proposals for twenty-minute presentations (traditional papers and practice-based research are equally welcome) focussing on any aspect of the film that interrogates the enduring qualities that have marked its animated legacy. Topics might include, but are not limited to:

 

• Snow White’s importance to Disney Feature Animation (house style, corporate history, production culture)
• Connections to early Disney short programmes (Laugh-O-Grams, Alice Comedies, Silly Symphonies, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit)
• Snow White and the landscape of Golden Age Hollywood animation (MGM, Warner Brothers)
• Animation and/as technology (Rotopscoping, Multi-plane camera)
• Snow White and the evolution of the animated musical (musicology, sound design, soundtrack)
• Snow White as animated fairy-tale / fantasy
• Snow White and the Disney Princess franchise
• Merchandising and marketing the Snow White phenomenon (theme park attractions, video game, Broadway musical)
• Snow White and adaptation studies
• Snow White and theories of childhood
• Snow White and film genre
• Stardom and performance (Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, Harry Stockwell)
• Gender and sexuality
• Snow White’s animated ecology and the natural world
• Animation, aesthetics, art
• Adaptations of Disney’s Snow White (newspaper comic strip, Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, Snow White with the Red Hair)
• Walt Disney and Snow White
• Snow White and its audiences (fandom and critical reception)
• Snow White and Disney Home Media (relationship to the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection, Disney’s Platinum Editions, Diamond Editions, Walt Disney Signature Collection Line)
• Snow White and animation studies

 

Speakers are invited to submit a 250-word abstract and short biography to BOTH Dr Bryan Hawkins ([log in to unmask]) and Dr Christopher Holliday ([log in to unmask]).

 

The deadline for proposals is 15 August 2017.

 

 

Maybe I’ll see you in Canterbury in September for Anifest!

 

Oh, and if you would like a printable poster for Anifest to put up in your department please drop me an email and I will send one over to you directly.

 

 

Best,

Chris

 

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Dr Chris Pallant

Senior Lecturer in Film Studies | Programme Director: MA by Research

 

School of Media, Art and Design

Canterbury Christ Church University

North Holmes Road | Canterbury | Kent CT1 1QU

 

T: 01227 78 2419 | @cjpallant

Staff webpage: https://goo.gl/45ZqEG

 

Vice-President: Society for Animation Studies

https://ww2.animationstudies.org

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Editorial Board: Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal

http://anm.sagepub.com/content/current

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Festival Director: Canterbury Anifest

www.canterburyanifest.com