FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

19TH - 21ST JAN 2024

PARTNERS

SPONSORS

FRIENDS OF ANIMELA

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 VENUE
NFDC FILMS DIVISION, PEDDER ROAD, MUMBAI

7
DAY SCHEDULE
KEY: Film Filmmaker will be present Knowledge Session

DAY 1 VENUE:
ANIMELA
19TH JAN 2024 THEATRE

Time Event

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Dir: Pierre Földes

12:30 pm - 2:45 pm India Collection: Shorts Programme

Lucky Dog: World Premiere

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
Dir: Ujwal Nair

Slide
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Dir: Bill Plympton

Sultana's Dream
5:45 pm - 7:15 pm
Dir: Isabel Herguera

The Peasants
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Dir: DK Welchman & Hugh Welchman

Unicorn Wars
9:45 pm - 11:30 pm
Dir: Alberto Vázquez

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DAY SCHEDULE
KEY: Film Filmmaker will be present Knowledge Session

DAY 1 VENUE:
KNOWLEDGE
19TH JAN 2024 CENTRE

Time Event

Dreaming Utopia: Making of Sultana's Dream

Spearkers: Upamanyu Bhattacharyya,
10.30 am - 12.00 pm Isabel Herguera, Gianmarco Serra &
Diego Herguera
Moderator: Sekhar Mukherjee

Inside Star Wars: Visions - Crafting The Bandits

12.30 pm - 1:30 pm of Golak with 88 Pictures
with Milind D. Shinde

Mastering the Magic: A Deep Dive into the VFX

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm of RRR and Baahubali with
Shobu Yarlagadda and Srinivas Mohan

Sketch to Screen: Animation Masterclass with

4:00 pm - 4:45pm
Reza Riahi

Script to Screen: Animation Writing

5:00 pm - 5:45 pm
Masterclass with Johanna Goldschmidt

6:15 pm - 7:45 pm AniMela-MIFA Pitch

Best of Annecy: Shorts Programme (in the

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
presence of the Annecy Team)

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DAY SCHEDULE
KEY: Film Filmmaker will be present Knowledge Session

DAY 1 VENUE:
AMPHITHEATRE
19TH JAN 2024
Time Event

Jugalbandi: A Deep Dive into Character Design

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
with Datsi School's Michael Joseph & Venky

Showrunner's Workshop: Creating a TV Series

12.30 pm - 1.30pm
in 30 Minutes with Ted Sieger

Passion-Education-Employment:
An Ask-Me-Anything Session
2.30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speakers: Preeti Vyas, Ninad Chhaya,
Virendra Patil | Moderator: Nina Sabnani

Publishing Panels:
Kickstarting your Comics Career
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Speakers: Anand RK, Abhijeet Kini
Bharath Murthy | Moderator: Vivek Nag

Embracing AI: Job Security in the GenAI Era

6.15pm - 7.15 pm
with NVIDIA's Sasikumar R and Sunil Patel

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm International Collection: Shorts Programme

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DAY SCHEDULE
KEY: Film Filmmaker will be present Knowledge Session

DAY 2 VENUE:
ANIMELA
20TH JAN 2024 THEATRE

Time Event

The Concierge
10:30 am - 11:45 pm
Dir: Yoshimi Itazu (family film)

White Plastic Sky

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dir: Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó

Aurora's Sunrise
2:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Dir: Inna Sahakyan

Adam Changes Lentement

4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
Dir: Joël Vaudreuil

Nayola
6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
Dir: José Miguel Ribeiro

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

8:00 pm - 9:45 pm
Dir: Pierre Földes

Slide
10:00 pm - 11:30 pm
Dir: Bill Plympton

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DAY SCHEDULE
KEY: Film Filmmaker will be present Knowledge Session

DAY 2 VENUE:
KNOWLEDGE
CENTRE
20TH JAN 2024
Time Event

Unraveling Heirloom: The Journey So Far with

10:30 am - 12:00 pm Upamanyu Bhattacharyya, Reza Riahi, Veronique
Encrenaz and Mickaël Marin

Reality Remix: A Kaleidoscope of Extended Reality

Speakers: Neeraj Roy, Chaitanya Chinchlikar
12:30 pm - 2.00 pm
Ashwin D Silva, Rahat Kulshreshtha
Moderator: Anand Gurnani

Chhota Bheem: Reimagined for Live Action with

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Rajiv Chilaka & Junaid Ullah

Distribution Decoded: Navigating the Animation

3:45 pm - 5.15 pm
Film Market with Luce Grosjean

5.30pm - 6:45 pm Diversity & Identity: Dutch Shorts Programme

Indie Visions: Making Feature Animation and VFX

Films in India
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Speakers: Gitanjali Rao, Shilpa Ranade, Anamika
Haksar | Moderator: Soumitra Ranade

AGIF Collection: Shorts Programme (in the

8:45 pm - 10.15 pm
presence of AGIF Team)

Queer Collection: Shorts Programme (in the

10:30 pm - 11:50 pm
presence of distributors)

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DAY SCHEDULE
KEY: Film Filmmaker will be present Knowledge Session

DAY 2 VENUE:
AMPHITHEATRE
20TH JAN 2024

Time Event

Rhythmic Revolutions: A Phonotrope

10.30 am - 12:00 pm Workshop with Studio Eeksaurus's
Nilima Eriyat

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm Live Kanjira Performance

Freeze, Frame, Fun: The Art of Pixilation

2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
with Vaibhav Studios

Lighting Up Imaginations: A Light

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Animation Workshop with Vaibhav
Studios

The Crossing
8.45pm - 10:15 pm
Dir: Florence Miailhe (family film)

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DAY SCHEDULE
KEY: Film Filmmaker will be present Knowledge Session

DAY 3 VENUE:
ANIMELA
21ST JAN 2024 THEATRE

Time Event

Nayola
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Dir: José Miguel Ribeiro

White Plastic Sky

12:10 pm - 2:00 pm
Dir: Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó

The Peasants
2:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Dir: DK Welchman & Hugh Welchman

The Concierge
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Dir: Yoshimi Itazu (family film)

Adam Is Changing Slowly

5:45 pm - 7:15 pm
Dir: Joël Vaudreuil

Unicorn Wars
7:30 pm - 9:15 pm
Dir: Alberto Vázquez

Aurora's Sunrise
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Dir: Inna Sahakyan

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DAY SCHEDULE
KEY: Film Filmmaker will be present Knowledge Session

DAY 3 VENUE:
21ST JAN 2024 AMPHITHEATRE

Time Event

Comics to Cartoons: How to Make an

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Animated Series with Bakarmax

Designing Narrative Games for Feelings

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
with Anurati Srivastva

5:30 pm - 6:15 pm Comic Chronicles with Britto Augustus

6:30 pm - 8:00pm Jazz Band Performance

No Dogs or Italians Allowed

8:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Dir: Alain Ughetto(family film)

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DAY SCHEDULE
KEY: Film Filmmaker will be present Knowledge Session

DAY 3 VENUE:
KNOWLEDGE
CENTRE
21ST JAN 2024
Time Event

The Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess Dir:

10:30 am - 12:00 pm Michel Ocelot(family film)

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Calamity Dir: Rémi Chayé(family film)

Protecting Your Projects: Strategies for Securing

2.30 pm - 3.30 pm Your Intellectual Property Rights with Akash
Menon and Sanchi Sehgal

Animating Realities: A Stop-Motion Workshop with

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Lachlan Pendragon

Return of the Jungle: A Self-Funding Triumph with

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Vaibhav Kumaresh and Ranjit Singh

Best of Miyu: Shorts Programme (in the presence

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
of distributors)

9:45 pm - 11:15 pm Josep Dir: Aurel

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