MAF AWARDS 2022: MEET THE JURY
31 October 2022
Celebrating the films you have come to know and love during the festival, we will be presenting awards for Short Film, Feature Film, Student Film, Commissioned Film, Immersive Awards, Short Film for Children and the Audience Award as well as handing out our Industry Excellence Awards at the MAF 2022 Award Ceremony.
The Jury for the Manchester Animation Festival Feature Film Category includes Kieran Argo (British Animation Awards), Abigail Addison (Producer/Programmer – Animate Projects) and Jo Chalkley (Director – Cosgrove Hall Films, Aardman Animations, and Factory).
Ivana Kvesić, Evgenia Golubeva, Hanna Ines Flint, Abigail Addison, Jo Chalkley, Kieran Argo
The returning Short Film Category Jury will include Hanna Ines Flint (Writer), Ivana Kvesić (Director – Fantoche International Animation Film Festival), and Evgenia Golubeva (Director/Writer/Character Designer – Disney, Sky Kids, Nick Jr, and BBC). Judging the Best Children’s Film Award at MAF 2022 will be a specially formed panel of 9-14 year olds from Into Film’s Youth Advisory Group.
The Jury for the Industry Excellence Awards will feature Alessandro Chirico (Art Director, Production Designer and Visual Development Artists – Jellyfish), Elena Wurlitzer (Development Producer – Jellyfish), Rahul Dasgupta (Senior Storyboard Artist – Blue Zoo Animation) and Steve Kimbrey (Animation Lead – Blue Zoo). The newly announced nominees can be found here.
Amy Gledhill – Host of the MAF Awards 2022
The awards will be presented by Amy Gledhill. Amy is a comedian, actor and writer from Hull. Her authentic, comic voice won her the prestigious BBC Caroline Aherne Bursary 2019. She has written for CBBC’s, BAFTA award-winning series Class Dismissed as well as being one half of Edinburgh Award nominated / Chortle Award winners – The Delightful Sausage.
Join us for the grand finale to the festival as we hand out the coveted Manchester Animation Festival trophies crafted by master model makers Mackinnon and Saunders!