Animated Exeter

Welcome to Animated Exeter

Animated Exeter is an annual festival initiated in 1999 and developed by Exeter City Council.With an audience of around 15,000, Animated Exeter is now the premier animation festival in the South West. The festival aims to excite and inspire young people; encourage and foster talent and showcase high quality animation

Festival Review

This year, our audience was up by 20%. We had a whopping 15,000 compared to 12,000 in 2009. Fantastic.

Highlights were the exhibition, Mind Over Matterand the screenings, with packed houses for the children’s film programme curated by the Animateka festival and the Oscar® nominated The Secret of Kells

Success

Over 4500 people of all ages participated in the mix of animation films, workshops, schools and special events. The new look for the festival, with its emphasis on the Essential Weekend has proved to be attractive to a wide audience, from young people and families, to animation enthusiasts and students.

The visit to Exeter of award winning animator, Bill Plympton, was a great boost to the reputation of the festival.

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Workshops

Over 1200 families, young people and students took part in our workshops, including the free drop-in introductory workshops at Exeter Central Library with tutors Lucy, Andy, Julia and Dave.

Broadsided!

'I wanted this piece to convey contradictions and a complexity that causes people to question rather than take sides. The world owes a debt to the British justice system while at the same time, in a stark contrast of class, a majority of those imprisoned come from poverty with sentencing that can often outsize their crime.' Rose Bond

One visitor who, deeply moved by this animated installation revealed an ancestor was executed on the site. Brought it home rather. Have a look...

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New recruits needed for Young+Animated

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We are looking for more young animators, between 10 and 16 years to join our project: Memory Train. Work is already underway but we would still like you to joing the group if you are really interested in learning to animate. Please contact Animated Exeter Education Co-ordinator, Kari Nygaard: kari@animatedexeter.co.uk.

An ideas session over the Easter holidays launched a raft of ideas from the Young+Animated group. Out of this session came Memory Train - a series of workshops that will explore methods of recording various groups of peoples memories in animated form. This cracking idea has won a £30,000 studio grant from First Light!

First Light is supported by the UK Film Council's Lottery Fund