Talks #SouthVoices
🌐 SOUTH VOICES: Online Mentorship and Workshop Program for South American Animation Short Films in Development. A joint initiative between @ojoraro.tv and @bitbangclub.
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Distribution
👁️🗨️ Luce Grosjean (@lucehiole). Born in France and a GOBELINS graduate in production, she began her career at AFCA and RECA, the Réseau des Écoles du Cinéma d’Animation. In 2014, she founded Sève Films, which in 2017 became @miyudistribution, in partnership with Miyu Productions (owned by Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron). Miyu Distribution specializes in distributing student films at festivals and distributing short films. The company’s films have received international recognition through numerous selections at prestigious festivals, five of which have been nominated for the Oscars. In 2021, the company signed its first animated feature films: Archipelago, by Quebecois Félix Dufour-Laperrière, and Pléthore de Nords, by Koji Yamamura, as well as the theatrical release of the first short film program aimed at adult audiences, “Plan cul la praline.”
Miyu Distribution was awarded Best Short Film Distributor in 2020 by UniFrance and La Fête du Court Métrage.
Production with Native Communities
👁️🗨️ COLECTIVO TUTU (@maxahuyeya).
Founded in 2017, Colectivo Tutu (meaning “flower” in Wixárika) is a group formed by local artists, professionals skilled in the Huichol art technique from Jalisco, as well as audiovisual artists and animators from Mexico City. Their goal is to build dialogues, create collaborative and multidisciplinary pieces that promote Mexico’s cultural diversity through new media in image and sound. This effort has given rise to the project Maxa Huyeya/The Path of the Deer. Their first presentation took place in June 2023 at the UNAM International Film Festival (@ficunam), and they are scheduled to present at Benson Theater in Omaha, Nebraska, in September of this year.
The artists: @federico_de_la_cruz_ / @esesteban / @noizel_mx / @carlos_gamboa_works
👁️🗨️ KERADÓ (@kerado_cortometraje):
✧ José Domicó (@jaiduadibi). Co-researcher and voice actor for the animated short film KERADÓ. Youth leader of the Embera people, painter, and traditional dancer (Untakaribara). Leader of the Dowandra dance group and a student at the University of Córdoba.
✧ Leny Luz Domicó (@lenyrubianodomico). Voice actress for the animated short film KERADÓ. Youth leader of the Embera people, traditional body painting artist (Kipara), and traditional dancer (Untakaribara).
✧ Andrés Castillo (@elcauac). Audiovisual creator and digital animator, trained at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Caribbean Branch. Producer, director, and screenwriter of the short films LA VENTANA (2018) and KERADÓ (2022).
✧ Diego Castillo (@godie_castillo). Digital animator and art director for animation, graduated with a degree in Art Education from the University of Córdoba. Co-director of the animated short film KERADÓ.
Dirección
👁️🗨️ Simon Wilches Castro (@simonwilchesc). Currently residing in Los Angeles, he works as a creative director for special projects at Titmouse studios. He has directed the animation for Marvel’s WandaVision, Apple’s Everlight, Dua Lipa’s animated music video Hallucinate, and Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things. He directed the musical The Emperor’s Newest Clothes for HBO, several pieces for The Gates Foundation, and created One Direction smut fiction for the show Euphoria. His films have been screened at the world’s most important festivals, earning him numerous awards and recognitions, including two Adobe Design Awards, two Annie Award nominations, and two Regional Finalist nominations for the Student Academy Award. He has had six consecutive official selections at the Annecy Festival, three ADC Award pre-selections, and won Best Music Video at the New Chitose Airport Festival, among others. In 2020, he founded Amaltea INC., an animation company for independent projects. Simon received his MFA from the John C. Hench Division of Animation at USC and is also a Fulbright Scholar.