About The International Animation Day

October 28, 2008

In 2002, ASIFA, the International Animated Film Association, launched a global event to celebrate the art of animation. October 28th was proclaimed as International Animation Day, commemorating the first public performance of Emile Reynaud’s Theatre Optique at the Grevin Museum in Paris, in 1892.

Each year, ASIFA groups around the world celebrate International Animation Day. In 2007, about 40 different countries in all the continents celebrated this day.

We invite you to join us by screening animated films, organizing workshops, exhibiting artwork and stills, providing technical demonstrations, and helping to promote the art of animation.

Some of us have taken this opportunity to spread this event over several days involving numerous partners. Such a celebration is an outstanding opportunity of putting the animated film in the limelight, and making this art more accessible to the public.

This celebration is also an opportunity to screen free DVD programs from different countries: Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, France, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Korea, Portugal, USA...  The list of programs will be issued on the Asifa’s website. Please bear in mind that some of these programs are only available for direct DVD exchanges.

We arrange the publication of an original poster and send a press release which will both be shared by all those participating in this event. The IAD Poster for 2008 was designed by the French filmmaker Michel Ocelot.

For those who wish to organise an event during International Animation Day, please fill in the application form and send it at j.crochu@afca.asso.fr before the 5th August 2008.

For any further information, please contact Juliette CROCHU, coordinator of the International Animation Day on behalf of ASIFA International.

Contact : Juliette Crochu, Afca-Asifa France
E-mail : j.crochu@afca.asso.fr
Phone : 33 1 48 78 25 67 / Fax : 33 1 40 23 09 17