{"id":13687,"date":"2020-09-24T13:46:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T17:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=13687"},"modified":"2020-09-24T13:47:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T17:47:35","slug":"stop-motion-festival-winners-and-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=13687","title":{"rendered":"Stop Motion Festival : Winners and recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winners and recap of a memorable 12th Home Sweet Home Edition<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a wrap for\u00a0Festival Stop Motion Montreal<\/strong>\u2019s 12th edition and first-ever virtual edition, which ran completely online this past September 14-20. In a live-streamed closing ceremony held Sunday, September 20, the Festival team and jury members assembled to announce this year\u00a0award winners and, thanks to the virtual format, had some of the filmmakers join in to accept their awards from wherever they were across the globe. The jury, made up of industry professionals, was composed of\u00a0Maral Mohammadian<\/strong>; producer at the National Film Board of Canada,\u00a0Bren L\u00f3pez Zepeda;\u00a0<\/strong>Montreal animator and independent filmmaker and\u00a0Aaron Wood<\/strong>; co-founder and producer at London\u2019s Slurpy Studios.<\/p>\n

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An abundant online edition<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Festival partnered with Canadian broadcast platform VUCAVU\u00a0to bring\u00a090 short films\u00a0<\/strong>from 30 different countries and\u00a03 special guest masterclass conferences\u00a0<\/strong>online and available to the public worldwide this year, in efforts to provide a safe Festival experience to all during these unprecedented pandemic times. We would like to thank our wonderful special guests; Vanessa Loubineau, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois L\u00e9vesque and Justin Rasch<\/strong> for joining us and participating in this novel virtual edition, and for being so generous with their time, technical expertise and thoughtful advice.\u00a0Thanks to the online format, and to meet the demands of our lovely and eager audience members, our masterclasses were extended to 2-hour and 3-hour sessions which could have easily gone on even longer! We hope that all audience members enjoyed the opportunity to ask their questions and got as much knowledge and amazement out of the conferences as our Festival team did.<\/p>\n

The Festival was extended to a\u00a0full 7-day experience<\/strong>, as compared to past physical editions which took place over 3 days. A total of\u00a011 different film screening programs\u00a0<\/strong>were offered, which included 9 in competition and 2 thematic programs with one highlighting local talent in a Quebec films retrospective and another with a selection of Scottish films from the Edinburgh Short Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Two separate\u00a0technical skills animation workshops\u00a0<\/strong>were led by renowned industry leaders;\u00a0Julia Peguet\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0See Learn Academy<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s Dale Hayward and Sylvie Trouv\u00e9, which attracted all levels of participants from India, the United States, Germany, France, Colombia, Montreal, and Hungary.<\/p>\n

The Festival offered a slew of\u00a0free activities\u00a0<\/strong>throughout the week on their social networks in a conscious effort to keep viewers connected and engaged which included a multitude of interactive Watch Parties and Live Streams.
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\nAmong the offerings was a\u00a0virtual studio tour\u00a0<\/strong>with Vancouver-based Alicia Eisen, 19 different\u00a0meetings with the filmmakers\u00a0<\/strong>from the competition programs, a\u00a0Fireside Chat with the 2020 Jury Members\u00a0<\/strong>and a Cozy\u00a0Brunch Conversation with Jean-Fran\u00e7ois L\u00e9vesque and the crew members of I, Barnab\u00e9\u00a0<\/strong>(NFB).<\/p>\n

VIP Pass holders were given access to a private Networking Pod, allowing festival goers to interact and network with one another, ask questions in a safe environment, offer film and masterclass reviews, job opportunities and more!\u00a0The\u00a0Opening and Closing Ceremonies\u00a0<\/strong>were also live-streamed with the addition of an Official 2020 Festival Cake Bake Along, with all of these free activities remaining up on the\u00a0Festival\u2019s Facebook page\u00a0<\/strong>to watch at your own leisure.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A challenge accepted and overachieved; the future is bright for this growing Festival\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Festival doubled its VIP pass sales compared to its previous edition, having had participants tune in from almost every continent and reached over 400,000 accounts on their growing social media networks.<\/p>\n

The pandemic challenge was met and surpassed, leaving the Festival team proud in having maintained its mandate in making stop motion animation discoverable and accessible to all, in providing a platform for the artists and their works to shine, and in stimulating the local and international stop motion industry.<\/p>\n

The successful reception of this online edition has certainly shaped the future of the Festival which will continue to develop and broaden its reach. Upcoming hybrid editions are being considered in order to meet the diverse needs of its local and international stop motion communities.<\/p>\n

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