Canada’s animation industry will show the world what they’re made of at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival (June 9 to 15, 2024) and Annecy International Animation Film Market (MIFA) (June 11 to 14, 2024).
In the festival’s official selection: animated films, TV projects, shorts, and VR works (including coproductions). Discover why Canada is your next animation partner at our market activities, including pitch sessions, panels, its annual networking soirée, and the Canada Pavilion – your hub for all things Canadian animation.
Join us to be inspired by Canada’s diverse, impactful, and boundary-breaking animation talent and discover projects, talent and producers destined for global success!
Canada Pavilion
Located at stand D.02, our Canada Pavilion will be bustling with activity this year, offering ongoing networking opportunities. (Plus, we’ve got an inviting terrace.)
MIFA Partners Pitches - RDVCANADA | Animations 2024
Meet our RDVCANADA | Animations 2024 cohort and discover their projects – ranging from animated features to TV series. This mentorship and training initiative (by Telefilm Canada in partnership with the Canada Media Fund and the Trade Commissioner Service) offered online training and mentorship to five experienced Canadian producers for one main event: pitching their projects in development to industry delegates at MIFA.
Read all about this initiative here.
MIFA Partners Pitches, RDVCANADA | Animations 2024 takes place June 11 from 3 PM to 4:15 PM at Salle Verdi, Imperial Palace.
Networking Soirée with Canada: Your Next Animation Partner
If you’re looking to partner with Canada, our networking soirée is the place to be. Our Canadian reception is sure to facilitate connecting Canadian animation talent and producers with international business partners.
For the third year, we’re holding the event inside the market at Espace Détente (Chill out Area).
Organised in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
When and where:
June 11 from 7:15 to 9 PM at the Espace Détente (Chill Out Area)
Panel - Innovative Animation Approaches: Doing it Differently in Canada
From AI in animation and new software to narrative sovereignty for Indigenous stories, Canadian animation leaders are developing and employing new tools and approaches that can improve creativity and production value and build more inclusive animated stories. Moderated by Archita Ghosh, President, Rezolution Pictures, this panel discussion will delve into these innovative new methods from some of Canada’s animated producers.
Panelists:
- Richard Cormier, Director General, Programming, Creation, Distribution and Marketing, and Head of Programming, NFB
- Delna Bhesania, Executive Producer
- Matt Bishop, Founding Partner / Producer, Sinking Ship Entertainment
- Steve Couture, CEO, Epic Storyworlds
- David Bitton, Global Director, Product Strategy Cloud and M&E, Hypertec
- Kim Picard, Co-Director, Innue, Terre Innue
- Élodie Pollet, Producer, Terre Innue
When and where:
This event takes place June 12 from 11 AM to 12:15PM at Salle La Rotonde de l’Europe, Imperial Palace, and will be followed by a networking lunch on the adjacent Terrace organised in collaboration with QFTC (BCTQ).
FILMS IN COMPETITION
FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION – CONTRECHAMP 5
- Nick Johnson’s Sunburnt Unicorn
SHORT FILMS – OFFICIAL COMPETITION
- Ivan Li’s Drizzle in Johnson
- Birute Sodeikaite’sIn Perpetuum
- Michèle Lemieux’s The Painting (Le tableau)
- Ryo Orikasa’s Miserable Miracle (France-Canada-Japan)
- Daniel Gies’s Return to Hairy Hill (Retour à Hairy Hill)
VR WORKS
- Gwenaël François’s Oto’s Planet (Luxembourg-Canada-France)
- Adam Weingrod’s Spots of Light (Israel-Canada)
OFF-LIMITS
- Moïa Jobin-Paré’s Families’ Albums (Albums de familles)
- Jo Roy’s Corpus and the Wandering (Corpus et l’exploration divine)
- Nicolas Brault’s Entropic Memory (Mémoire entropique)
- Patrick Bergeron’s Acoustic Shadows (Ombres acoustiques)
GRADUATION FILMS
- Cameron Kletke’s Between You and Me
COMMISSIONED FILMS
- Matthew Rankin’s Federal Owl Commission: OIAF 23 Festival Signal Film
FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION
Annecy Presents 4
- Denver Jackson’s The Worlds Divide
Midnight Specials
- Leslie Solis and Louis Solis’s (S)KiDS
Midnight Specials: WTF
- Ben Meinhardt’s Living the Dream
Screening Events
- André Kadi and Karine Vézina’s Hola Frida (Canada-France)
Annecy Classics
- Loïc Darses’s Scratches of Life: The Art of Pierre Hébert (Graver l’homme : arrêt sur Pierre Hébert)
(Newsflash! Annecy will award an Honorary Cristal prize to iconic Canadian animator Pierre Hébert at this year’s fest). - Thomas Corriveau’s Kidnappé
- Estelle Lebel and Mitsu Daudelin’s Marie-coquette qui a ni chaud ni frette
- Christopher Hinton’s Nice Day in the Country
- Michel Gélinas and Michele Dégagné’s Objets perdus
- Michèle Cournoyer’s Old Orchard Beach P.Q.
- Jean Letarte’s Smaragdin
- Luce Roy’s Téléphone
PROJECTS
Works In Progress
- Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s Death Does Not Exist (La mort n’existe pas) (Canada-France coproduction)
- Allah is not Obliged (Allah n’est pas obligé) (France-Belgium-Luxembourg)
- Karine Lanoie-Brien, Kim Picard, and Élodie Pollet’s Telling Our Story: Our Connection With the Land, Dreams and Skyworld (Laissez-nous raconter notre lien au territoire, aux rêves et aux astres) (XR)
Mifa Pitches – Features
- Aurélie Pollet’s The Mystery Woman
FILMS IN SPECIAL PROGRAMMMES
Portugal in the Spotlight
- Abi Feijó’s Clandestino
- Regina Pessoa’s Historia trágica com final feliz
- Regina Pessoa’s Kali le petit vampire
- Regina Pessoa’s Tio Tomás – A contabilidade dos dias
Danse
- Claude Cloutier’s Auto Portraits
- Michèle Cournoyer’s Dolorosa
- Véronique Paquette’s LOCA
- Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski’s Love Songs for Robots
- Thomas Corriveau’s Marie.Eduardo.Sophie
- Alexandra Levasseur’s Onduleur minéral
- Norman McLaren’s Pas de deux
