During a ceremony last night hosted by Edinburgh Comedy Award winning comedian and writer Amy Gledhill, Manchester Animation Festival (MAF) unveiled the winners of the 2023 Industry Excellence Awards and Film Awards. The awards ceremony was held on the 16th November. ...
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Manchester Animation Festival is the perfect place for animation students to engage with the industry as it is one of the biggest animation festivals in the UK. As well as hosting screenings of student movies, it also provides invaluable workshops and events which are ideal for...
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Manchester Animation Festival 2023 is the perfect place to take your family for a day out - with everything from screenings of BBC family favourites to an adaptation of Michael Morpungo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom, there’s something for everyone. Plus, with workshops and...
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We’re delighted to announce this year’s Industry Excellence Award Nominees. The award sit alongside the festivals' film awards and are designed to shine a spotlight on the animation heroes working day in and day out within the animation industry, filling our lives with...
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We are very thrilled to announce an exciting new scheme at MAF HQ called the MAF Young Ambassadors! The MAF Young Ambassadors will be a handpicked team of passionate young content creators who are enthusiastic fans of the world of animation and all it has to offer! The aim of...
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Every year at Manchester Animation Festival we like to give a creative associated with the event the opportunity to give MAF a new look for our posters and ident design. This year friend of the festival Will Becher jumped on board and made the 2023 ident his own! Known for...
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Do you have a passion for helping to develop underrepresented audiences in film and the arts, and would you relish the challenge of getting wider audiences engaging with the UK's largest animation event? We have the perfect job opening for you! The Audience Development...
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We are very excited to announce the first pieces of MAF 2023 news, starting with our newly rebranded Industry Day! Last year's industry day was a huge sell out success, being the only event in the UK to cover the full spectrum of the animation industry, discussing non-broadcast,...
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has designated Manchester Animation Festival as an ACADEMY AWARD® qualifying festival on the Short Films Qualifying Festival List. Manchester Animation Festival has become the only dedicated animation festival in the UK to have...
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Will Becher, the Oscar-nominated co-director of Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon has been revealed as the artist who has designed the Manchester Animation Festival 2023 ident. Since 2019 MAF has welcomed designers, animators and artists with an association with the...
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We are very excited to be hosting the UK premiere of Oskar Lehemaa & Mikk Mägi's insane stop motion masterpiece The Old Man Movie: Lactopalypse! The film starts in a remote Estonian village, where three children from the city are forced to spend the summer on their...
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In a grand finale to Thursday's Festival, the winners of the Industry Excellence Awards and the MAF Awards 2022 were revealed. The ceremony was hosted by the magnificent and multi award winning comedian Amy Gledhill. FEATURE FILM The Best Feature Film award was...
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