Each year, ASIFA calls upon a famous animator to create the poster of IAD. It is then adapted for each country in order to guarantee a worldwide view of the event.

Previous editions involved the work of animators such as Iouri Tcherenkov, Paul Driessen, Abi Feijo, Eric Ledune, Noureddin Zarrinkelk, Michel Ocelot, Nina Paley, Raoul Servais and Ihab Shaker.

>> How to communicate?

Each organisers participating to IAD can use the poster and the labels to create its own communication tools according to its needs: printed posters, flyers, booklets etc.

But to guarantee the coherence of communication around IAD, these tools must include:

- the original IAD poster and the signature of the artist

- the mention: “ 11th International animation day” (or its translation in local language)

- Asifa logo

>> Gianluigi Toccafondo, creator of the IAD poster 2012

Gianluigi Toccafondo is an Italian painter, illustrator and filmmaker who was born in San Marino in Italy in 1965. He began his career as an animation director in 1989 making short films. He started making full-length films from 2007 on.

He has been directing a few master pieces since the 1990’s, using the traditional technique : the frame by frame animation that he knows perfectly well.  Among his most famous films, we can mention « La Pista » (1992), “Le Criminel” (1993) ,”La Piste du Cochon” (1992),  and “Pinocchio” (1999), His films are very narrative and deal with everyday life stories. Multiform, multi technicals, multi aids:  Toccafondo thinks in movement.  It seems that he managed to set his own aesthetical style throughout his films which evoke ‘more painting language than cinema language’. (A. Cianci, 2004, Court Circuit magazine).

He took part in different international exhibitions and his films have often won awards (London International Award, 1st Prize at Urobest (animation category). Besides, he was the special guest of Venice Festival opening ceremony in 1999. He now lives and works in Milan.

Selected filmography (animation)

•             2004: La Piccolo Russia (short)

•             2000 :  Essere morti o essere vivi è la stessa cosa (short)

•             1999 : Pinocchio

•             1993 :  The criminal (short)

•             1992 : La piste du cochon

•             1991 : La Pista

For more information about Gianluigi Toccafondo:

•             Book : GIANLUIGI TOCCAFONDO FILM, Nuages, 2007, Milan

•             Website : http://www.awn.com/toccafondo/

IAD 2012 Poster

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