16:00 h
BIT BANG 2020 Opening
Argentine Animation Day Special

16:15 h
Screening: Sin Dejar Rastros (75 min, documentary about Quirino Cristiani)
Presentation by director Diego Kartaszewicz

17:30 h
Rescate de la animación argentina
Curators: Andrés Levinson y Raúl Manrupe
Presented by Museo del Cine

19:00 h
Bitbang 2020 Program Presentation. Argentine Animated shorts.

20:00 h
Talk: Despacito: a quick overview of Latin American animation, by Simón Wilches Castro.

21:00 h
BIT BANG Opening Toast
Play NAVE Online 
Music: Horrible, Ayar Blasco’s band.

22:00 h
Screening: Internacional Animated Short Films 1

23:00 h
Screening: Internacional Animated Short Films 2

18:00 h
BIT BANG TV Interviews. Interview series from around the world.

19:00-19:10 h
Screening: SYMPHONY No.42 by Réka Bucsi.

19:10-19:40 h
Talk with Réka Bucsi, the German artist whose multi-award-winning shorts flood our screens, and whose clients range from Cartoon Network and Adult Swim to FX Networks. Her films have toured film and animation events around the world, including Berlinale, Annecy, SXSW, and Sundance. In addition, her graduation short Symphony no. 42 was shortlisted for the Oscars, while Solar Walk won the Audi Short Film Award at the 2018 Berlinale (now part of The Criterion Collection). At Bit Bang, Bucsi will give a talk about production, financing, experimental narrative, and the creative process. We will also see a retrospective of her work.

19:40-20:15 h
Live Q&A with Réka Bucsi (Hungary)

20:15 h
Screening: Solar Walk (short directed by Réka Bucsi)

20:35 h
Screening: Love (short directed by Réka Bucsi)

21:00 h
Screening: Latin American Animated Short Films 1

22:00 h
Screening: Internacional Animated Short Films 3

23:00 h
Screening: Internacional Animated Short Films 4

18:00 h
Screening: Latin American Graduation Animated Short Films 1

19:00 h
Talk: Shitty Games
A zapping of remixed diarrhea not fit for human consumption, about the life and work of Shitty Games. With commercial breaks, sponsored content, visual vomit, interviews with celebrities, family anecdotes, political propaganda and great prizes.

20:00 h
Q&A with Joe Walsh (Fall Guys)
Joe Walsh is the Lead Designer at Mediatonic, creators of the hit video game Fall Guys. Mediatonic is an independent game development studio that delights in connecting people through original massively multiplayer gaming experiences and breaking the mould with weird and wonderful games across all platforms. @Mediatonic www.mediatonicgames.com

20:30 h
Talk: Creatives and comedians who are on fire with their posts on social media: Alexis Moyano, Estampita, Ayar Blasco, Fracasitos, Picho Brazo y Sukermerkado. 
Moderator: Martín Garabal.

22:00 h
Screening: Internacional Animated Short Films 5

23:00 h
Screening: Internacional Animated Short Films 6

18:00 h
BIT BANG TV Interviews.

19:00 h
Screening: Internacional Animated Short Films 7

20:00 h
Q&A with Nikita Diakur (Germany)  
Screening: Fest and Ugly.
Presented by the Goethe-Institut in Buenos Aires, Russian animator Nikita Diakur will discuss his raw, interactive approach to story, design and animation that led to shorts such as Ugly and Fest being critically acclaimed at events such as the Ottawa Animation Festival, Bristol Encounters and VIS Vienna Sho. Diakur leverages computer simulation to break down formats, styles and narratives, moving away from neat 3D and embracing spontaneity and error as much as real-time mechanisms.

21:00 h
2D Animation Marathon
Animate, animate and animate… 18 hours of pure team animation with a theme to be developed that will be revealed just before the start. The competition is divided into different stages that the teams must overcome (otherwise, they will be eliminated). It is animated in MOHO, edited in Premiere and post-produced in After Effects. On Friday 13/11, the awards ceremony and screenings of the best productions will be held, with streaming open to the public.
By Escuela Da Vinci.

22:00 h
Screening: Latin American Animated Short Films 2

23:00 h
Screening: Internacional Animated Short Films 8

13:00 h
Masterclass: Salvador Sanz – Techniques for Horror Illustration
Learn to ink like the greats with Salvador Sanz! A unique opportunity to witness the master of the supernatural in person, who will illustrate creatures exclusively for horror. Prepare your questions for him, because you will have the chance to ask him whatever you want LIVE. What tools does he use? How does he make his creatures unique? Does he perform any magic rituals? All this and more, in the Masterclass on Friday, November 13 at 1:00 p.m. (great date and time for horror, right?).
By Escuela Da Vinci

14:00 h
Talk: The Role of Editing in Animation
Da Vinci School joins the Argentine Association of Audiovisual Editors (EDA) to talk about the importance of the role of the editor in the various stages of the work process of an animated series, film or commercial. Facundo Bauso Beltrán and Julián Garro, editors with extensive national and international experience in film, series, documentaries and advertising, among other areas, will speak.
By EDA and Escuela Da Vinci.

15:00 h
Da Vinci Student Thesis Fair
The 10 best thesis projects are presented to students of the program in order for them to understand what the process of creating a professional short film from scratch is like and to be able to join in the work of those theses.
By Escuela Da Vinci.

17:00 h
BitBang TV Interviews.

18:00 h
Q&A with female animators: Martina Scarpelli (Italy) and Flora Anna Buda (Hungary).

19:00 h
Workshop: Nelson Luty – Speed Painting
His workshop will have art direction as its main theme. He will make a live illustration with a Wacom Cintiq Pro tablet and will reveal the secrets that must be taken into account to reach fame, from his professional experience perspective.
By Escuela Da Vinci

20:00 h
Interview: Humberto Rosa, the Argentine behind “Into The Spider-Verse” + Dui Lorem
Into the Spider-Verse, an animated film released in 2018, quickly became a box office and critical success and won the Oscar for Best Animated Film, as well as a Golden Globe and seven Annie Awards, among other awards. One of the hallmarks of the film is its particular animation, which combines several styles. And another hallmark is the Argentine who was in charge of it, Humberto Rosa. A graduate of Escuela Da Vinci, Rosa is a Lead Animator at Sony Pictures Imageworks, which allowed him to work from the beginning in the production of the spider superhero. In addition, his work on the character of Miles Morales was recognized with the Visual Effects Society Awards.
Interviewer: Martín Garabal
By Escuela Da Vinci.

21:00 h
Digital Illustration Competition 
Escuela Da Vinci invites you to participate in an Online Digital Illustration Competition where, in just one hour and using Wacom tablets and Photoshop, animation and illustration students will demonstrate their skills live and from home. The theme? It will be revealed at the start of the activity. The prizes? Artistic/Digital Illustration Courses!
By Escuela Da Vinci

23:00 h
2D Animation Marathon Awards Ceremony
By Escuela Da Vinci.

10:00 h
DV Game Jam Awards Ceremony.
By Escuela Da Vinci.

13:00 h
Masterclass: How to Have Fun During the Creative Process, with Nacho Gudiño
Nacho Gudiño, a prominent Argentine artist and illustrator who currently works at Etermax, a company that develops video games for mobile devices (creator of Preguntados). Gudiño will talk about his creative process and the importance he gives to fun as the main focus, starting point and final goal of his creative process. Through live drawing, he will tell and show his work from beginning to end, taking as the main protagonist both the game and the fun himself and the fun of the audience who will see his work. His goal is to make the world a fun place, where there is room for play without thinking about the dramas of the real world, at least for a few hours (like when we were children). For this reason, he will also tell us how he has fun not only with his ideas, but also by sharing them with the public.
By Escuela Da Vinci | Sponsored by Wacom.

14:00 h
Talk: Nickelodeon: Niki López (United States)
Creator and co-executive producer of the Nickelodeon animated preschool series, Santiago of the Seas. She will talk about her steps, the series, and how to pitch for Nickelodeon.
Interview: Bárbara Cerro.

15:00 h
Video Games on Wheels. Argentine Arcades. Chapters 1 and 2
A bus loads up with Argentine arcades to travel around different parts of the country, bringing the experience of playing and developing video games without limitations. In these first two chapters produced by TecTV and Mulata Films, we introduce you to the crew of this bus full of fun and talent. Courtesy of Mulata Films and TecTV.

16:00 h
Argentine Animated Short Films
Selection: Luminaris, by Juan Pablo Zaramella. Padre, by Santiago Bou. Tántalo, by Juan Facundo Ayerbe and Christian Krieghoff. Trompita y la migración de liebres, by Florentina González. Bug, by Joaquín Ortiz. Veo Veo, by RAMA. Migrante, by Ezequiel Dalinger and Daniel Iezzi. Pulsión, by Pedro Casavechia.

17:00 h
Masterclass: Live Illustration, with Tita Sama
Using an MSI notebook and a Wacom tablet, the illustrator and influencer Tita Sama is going to create a live illustration using a palette of pale, anime-style flat colors, with simple techniques inspired by Korean illustrations. If you like drawing and anime, you can’t miss it!
By Escuela Da Vinci / Sponsored by MSI.

18:00 h
Talk: ARTificial: AI as a tool or as a creator?, by Micaela Mantegna
We are seeing more and more intervention of artificial intelligence in creative fields, which for some is a tool, for others it is seen as a threat that can supplant artists.

19:00 h
Rheumatic Tournament II: TETRIS Championship
If you are tired of losing or you feel too old to get into arcades, this is your chance to redeem yourself: Bit Bang will have the 2nd edition of the Rheumatic Tournament with its own TETRIS tournament suitable for those over 35 years old. A retro challenge with special prizes!

20:00 h
Talk: Inmersive Women – Planetariums are the cinemas of the future.
Q&A between immersive animation directors Juli Tagger (Argentina), Severine Fontaine (France), Clara Ríos Serrano (Argentina) and Juan Pablo Boraso (Argentina) on the process of narrative construction of the fulldome cinematographic language.
Moderated by: Cristian Reynaga

21:00 h
Screening: Internacional Animated Short Films  9

22:00 h
Screening: Latin American Animated Short Films 3

23:00 h
Screening: Latin American Animated Short Films 4

18:00 h
BIT BANG TV Interviews.

19:00 h
Talk: Why Do We All Need Women in Games Argentina? – Stephanie Zucarelli
The video game sector has many unresolved conflicts. These problems are inherited from industry models that were established more than fifty years ago. Women in Games Argentina is a community that seeks to activate networking networks, support circuits and dissemination spaces for all areas of the sector. As the video game area is not one-dimensional, we invite you to share experiences and learn about what the initiative is about, both for those who are already in the industry and for those who wish to enter it.

19:00 h
Talk: APA Lab – The Importance of Laboratories in the Development of Animation Projects – María Rosario Carlino
There will be a discussion about the role of development laboratories in the gestation stage of an animation project: commitments, challenges and opportunities in the APA Lab incubation stage.

Special guest: Carlos Salamanca (Tutor for the Short Film Category of APA Lab 2019)

21:00 h
RAMA Talk: Corporalities and Stereotypes in Character Design
The Argentine Network of Women in Animation returns to Bit Bang with an inspiring talk where, in addition to revealing the work processes of artists through the visualization of sketches and designs, it will share knowledge in relation to the creation and design of characters.

22:00 h
RAMA Focus:
Screening of a cycle of short films by its directors, among which is the collaborative production Veo veo. The exhibition brings together a wide variety of techniques and themes as well as a diversity of perspectives and styles combined in creation.

23:00 h
Screening : Internacional Animated Short Films 10

18:00 h
BIT BANG TV Interviews.

19:00 h
Screening: BIT BANG Selection Shorts from Previous Years.

20:00 h
Talk: Festivals of the World
BIT BANG, Glass Animation (United States), Kaboom (Netherlands), Laliff (United States) and Pixelatl (Mexico) are participating.

21:00 h
Ayar Blasco Makes a Live Animation in Record Time
It took some convincing and he doesn’t promise anything, but the outstanding national animator and director will start making nothing less than a live animation… in less than two hours! Plus, he’ll answer questions while he draws! Are you going to miss this opportunity? Enjoy a day with the director of the films Lava and El sol.

23:00 h
Screening: Lava, by Ayar Blasco.

18:00 h
BIT BANG TV Interviews.

19:00 h
Talk: Unreal Engine in Latin America – Martina Santoro
The president of the Association of Video Game Developers of Argentina, co-founder of Latam Video Games Federation and Evangelist of Unreal Engine at Epic Games will present the main features of the Unreal engine, its applications and the development of the platform in Latin America. This software, one of the most used in the animation and video game industry, has been used to create everything from television commercials to applications within the series The Mandalorian and the latest adaptation of The Lion King.

20:00 h
Talk: Video Games on Wheels – Hernán Sáez and Agustín Pontura 
A bus loads up with Argentine arcades to travel around different parts of the country, bringing the experience of playing and developing video games without limitations closer.
Interview: Juan Lomanto.

VGOW: https://www.instagram.com/videojuegossobreruedas/
Mulata Films: https://www.instagram.com/mulata.films/

20:45 h
NAVE Online (play live)

22:00 h
Talk: #RadioMoebia
Conversation about comics, artists and illustrators.
Meeting between protagonists of the independent comic scene of the last twenty years. The call made by Espacio Moebius brings together for a few hours several of the most influential editors, artists and comic and fanzine stores.

Participants: César Sánchez from Fulgencio Pimentel (Logroño, Spain), Lucas Varela (Bordeaux, France), Pachiclón, Aranza from Ricos Jugos (Guadalajara, Mexico) Catalina Bu (Santiago de Chile), Los Bravú (Orlé, Spain), Tommi Parrish (Vermont, United States), Sammy Harkham (Sydney, Australia), Amadeo González (Lima, Peru), Sole Otero (Angouleme, France), Dani Arias, Valeria Reinoso, Juan Manuel Puerto, Alexis Moyano, Powerpaola, María Luque, Diego Rey from “Hotel de las ideas”, Alejandro Bidegaray from “Musaraña” and Matías Zoja from “Espacio Brezal” (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Hosts and production from Espacio Moebius: Lucia Álvarez, Martín Ramón, Juan Ángel Szama and Alejandro Díaz B.

18:00 h
BIT BANG TV Interviews.

19:00 h
Workshop: Sequencer for Animation with Unreal Engine – Christian Andrade
The Unreal Engine work continues in Bit Bang! In this workshop, Christian Andrade, Unreal Engine Evangelist, demonstrates how to use the Sequencer editor to assemble linear animation effects for characters, environments, and cameras for a cinematic experience in UE4.

20:00 h
Dante Zaballa
Talk, retrospective, and Q&A

20:30 h
Character Bit Mosh Design (collective illustration). 

18:00 h
Screening: LGTB Animated Short Films

19:00 h
Talk: The Impossible Future. Cartoons against Capitalism
Speakers: Paula Moura, Toni Balseiro, Martín Haas
When we imagine our future, we usually think of images very similar to those in science fiction films and series, in which there is ecological devastation, discarded multitudes, technological over-surveillance or some kind of apocalyptic situation. And if we cannot imagine a different future, that is the future we are going to make, as we are in fact making it. We live in a suicidal system, and they say that we cannot change it because there is no alternative. But luckily there are many alternatives, even if they are not in the mass media.
Not only are there alternatives, but there is a whole movement, or rather many movements that are building the foundations of a world that fuses the best of the old with the best of the new. In ‘El Futuro Imposible’ we set out to tell these ideas and solutions in an entertaining way, and for that we turned to animation.

20:00 h
Q&A with Don Hertzfeldt (United States)
A celebration of the absurd and the dramatically humorous comes with Don Hertzfeldt, an American animator who gave a new twist to the vanguard of this field. Rejected, It’s Such a Beautiful Day and World of Tomorrow, among others, are works that elevated him to the category of cult director and made him the only director to win the Grand Jury Prize for Short Film at the Sundance Festival twice.
Interview: Bárbara Cerro

21:00 h
Talk: Queer Animation with International Guests.
Moderated by: Patricio Plaza

22:00 h
Screening: QUEERING Animated Short Films.

20:00 h
Awards Ceremony
We’ve reached the end of Bit Bang 2020! Always online, but without losing style or fun, we’re going to see all the awards for the Short Film and Video Clip Competitions, the Bit Bang Miau contest, the tournaments and more activities. Then there will be a virtual toast and… yes, we won’t be able to say goodbye to the event without the corresponding party with visuals, DJ and many other surprises. We’re closing in style!

22:00 h
BIT BANG 2020 Closing Toast
Music: DJ Duo Mix – C.h.a.r.l.a.dj and Fer Toth.