Panam Anim 2016, the International Festival of Animation Schools, is back for its 6th edition on 25 – 27 November 2016 at Cinema L’Entrepôt, Paris 14th with a bag full of novelties!

The largely programme spreads now over 3 days and 35 animation schools from 10 countries have joined the ranks of Panam. A selection of 60 shorts graduation films will be put to challenge on 3 competitions (International, National and Motion Design) and evaluated by a professional jury, presided over the French animator and film director Christian Desmares.

The programme also includes 3 parallel sections out of competition, of which 2 adapted to young audiences, master classes, a “carte blanche” to the Jury President, concerts and… a 48 hours Animation Jam during which the 8 participating teams will have 48 hours and all the necessary means to create an animated short film or a video game, with a nice trophy for the winners !

The Professional Jury will have the difficult task to attribute 4 awards to short films of the International, National competition and the Animation Jam, while a second jury will have to reward 2 of the best Motion Design shorts.

Besides the many surprises he will unveil in his Carte Blanche, Christian Desmares, will hold a Q&A with the audience after the screening of April and The Twisted World, the film he codirected with Frank Ekinci, winner of the Long Feature Cristal at Annecy 2015.

Panam Anim is a one of a kind festival entirely dedicated to animation schools excellence. Its main objective is to unveil the creativity and know-how of young talents who will make the landscape of tomorrow’s animation cinema.

This animation gathering takes place every year since 2011 in Paris (France), and since 2013, in Shanghai (China). In January 2016, an edition was organized in Bangkok (Thailand) in January 2016 and a new one will be launched in 2017 in the United States.

Panam Anim is a unique moment to appreciate and share technological innovations, as well as the creativity and artistic approach of these young graduates.

 
CHRISTIAN DESMARES, Jury President
Graduated from the French animation schools Gobelins (Paris) in 1998, Christian Desmares starts working on animation on different formats such as advertising, unitary films, TV series (Oggy and the Cockroaches, Space Goots, Lascars, L’île à Lili…) in different positions, layout posing, character designer or animator. As from 2001, he starts participating in several long features including Corto Maltese, Lascars – Pas de vacances pour les vrais gars, Le Jours des Corneilles…

After animating the characters of Marjane Satrapis’s long feature Persepolis (2007), Christian Desmares takes on the great challenge to interpret the world of French comic’s artist Tardi for his first feature April and The Twisted World (2015) codirected with Franck Ekinci that wins the Cristal for Feature Film the same year at Annecy Festival and a nomination to the French César the following year.

He is currently working on Lastman, directed by Jérémie Périn, an ambitious project that promises to refashion the world of animated TV series for adults!
 

Panam Anim 2016 Schedule

3 days 100% animation.

A total of 100 graduation films from 35 schools in 10 different countries: Germany, Belgium, China, South Korea, United-States, France, Hungary, Mexico, New-Zealand, United Kingdom.

All competitions are screened twice on different days to make sure everybody can see and vote for the films! An intermission of 10 minutes on each competition will give you enough time to do that!

Free entrance upon prior registration online:
billets-panamanim-2016.eventbrite.fr

On site: 5€ per screening

Friday 25 November

2:00 – 4:00 PM: NATIONAL COMPETITION (1/2)
21 short films from 15 French schools to offers a complete overview of the best of French animation

5:30 – 7:30 PM: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION (1/2)
13 schools from 10 countries competing for 4 prizes awarded by a professional jury

4:30 – ANIMATION JAM KICK OFF!
8 teams listed for this 48 hours creative challenge to make an animated short film or a video game

7:40 – 9:40 PM: ENCORES!
Because there can never be enough… 1 additional screening out of competition for a complete panorama of the student creation worldwide

9:30 PM – CONCERT: Harold & La clé de sous-sol *

* organized by L’Entrepôt – fee: 12€

Saturday 27 November

11:00 – 11:50 AM: YOUNG AUDIENCE SCREENING (+5)
a selection of very short films from 7 schools for the little ones

12:00 – 1:00 PM: YOUNG AUDIENCE SCREENING (+8)
8 short films from 8 school for the almost big ones!

2:00 – 4:00 PM: MASTER CLASS (to be confirmed soon)

4:00 – 6:00 PM: MASTER CLASS by Marie de Banville
« Scripwriting and writing direction for animated TV series »

4:00 – 6:00 PM: MOTION DESIGN COMPETITION (1/2)
to highlight this particularly creative area

7:40 – 9:40 PM: NATIONAL COMPETITION (2/2)

9:30 PM – CONCERT: La Marcha *

* organized by L’Entrepôt – fee: 12€

Sunday 27 Novembre

11:00 – 11:50 AM: MOTION DESIGN COMPETITION (2/2)

11:00 – 13:00 AM : « April and the Twisted World » – director screening with Christian Desmares

2:00 – 4:00 PM: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION (2/2)

4:00 – 6:00 PM: « CARTE BLANCHE » to CHRISTIAN DESMARES
Jury President

4:30 PM: END OF ANIMATION JAM

6:30 PM: SCREENING OF ANIMATION JAM SHORT FILMS
& AWARD CEREMONY

7:45 PM: CLOSING COCKTAIL

AWARDS
(the Festival and Animation Jam awards are all endowed)

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