TUESDAY, October 31 through Thursday, November 2, the Lagos International Festival of Animation, LIFANIMA will hold at the Alliance Francaise, Mike Adenuga Centre, Ikoyi, Lagos.
In its 7th season, the annual animation film festival is about the leading festival of its kind in the West Africa region.
The lead visioner and festival director, Muyiwa Kayode, says the festival is presented by USP Brand Management, in collaboration with the Lagos State Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, and the Embassy of France in Nigeria with Bank of Industry as Official Partner and TRACE TV as Lead Media Partner. It is endorsed by the Lagos State Film and Video Censors Board, LSFVCB.
The 2023 festival received 1088 submission from 111 countries, including 24 African countries.
Schedules:
On Day 1, the festival will feature Screening of Selected Works, and a special panel session on the historic creative industry intervention fund, Investment in Digital and Creative Enterprises I-DICE. This Federal Government Initiative is a $617 million fund to support the creative and digital/tech entrepreneurs. Animation is expected to be a major beneficiary of the fund. Top executives from Bank of Industry, managers of the fund, will be on a panel session to explain the details about the fund and the expected impact on the industry.
Day 2 of the festival will be entirely Online, with virtual panel sessions featuring local and international animation experts. The highlight is a special session titled Animation Production Pipeline with veteran American animator and producer, Artie Romero.
Virtual participation on Nov 1, from 11am: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9321998883?pwd=dW9VcWtoSXFVbnMxZi9rajBDR1gzUT09
The festival will climax on Day 3, a Cocktail Party, Animation Film Screening, Musical Performances, and Award Presentation.
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SPEAKERS
Among the resource persons speaking at the festival is: Artie Romero an American animation producer known for his visual effects in Johnny Mnemonic (1995). His first animated film “King’s Elevator” premiered at the World Science Fiction Convention in 1981. In 1996 he founded Artie.com, an animation site that gets billions of page views. His studio ARG! Cartoon Animation produced storyboards and animation for “Adventures of Turtle Taido.” The recipient of numerous awards, his animated short for children “Taffy the Pink Hippopotamus” was screened at Comic-Con in 2022.
Also speaking is: Ayodele Elegba, who founded the now famous, Lagos Comic Convention in 2012, essetially to celebrate and confer respectability on Comic books and those engaged in creating comic and comic works. lovers. With an attendance strength of 300 in its first year, Lagos Comic Con has grown to an event with a gathering of over 6,000 in 2022. Fondly known as the Dreammaker among Nigeria’s comic/animation industry insiders, Elegba is also the Festival Director of RENDACON Animation Film Festival, a native film festival that seeks to bring more opportunities of funding and education to Nigerian Animators and producers. He is also the producer and director of various highly acclaimed short film animations such as Lost Dreams, Strikeguard, Voyager, HERO CORPS, AJAKA: LOST IN ROME and most recently UNIQUELY ME which will be his first 3D project. He has also produced and directed several television animated series such as When I Grow Up, Area Daddy, and Roli Tales Animation. He is the president of Association of Comic Book Makers of Nigeria.
Other resource persons are in the poster below:
