Alex Villafania (INQUIRER.net)
A PHILIPPINE animation festival, set to take place in June, hopes to encourage the development of locally made content and materials by aspiring animators and independent filmmakers, the festival's organizer has said.
The Animation Council of the Philippines Incorporated (ACPI) said that each entry should be between one minute and five minutes long and may be either two-dimensional or three-dimensional animation.
Contest entries may be previews of full-length animated films that contestants are working on, the Council added.
The festival is open to all independent animators, film and arts students, it said.
Joy Bacon, ACPI executive director, said in an interview that the group hopes to get as judges Filipino animators working in big US animation studios, such as Pixar and Disney.
She said the judges will also be invited to speak regarding their experiences in these animation studios and perhaps bring some of the works shown in the festival to their companies for possible development into full-length movies.
Bacon said the purpose of the festival is to display the original works of Filipino animators to foreign delegates.
“We’ve also talked to some independent animators who complain that they do have the content but have not (the) venue. Likewise, international studios would want to look for local content that they can release,” Bacon said.
Bacon said there would be 30 winners during the festival and these will be promoted on a nationwide film tour.
Bacon said ACPI is focusing this year on developing original animated content in the Philippines and not just outsourced animation services for larger operations.
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