After two years of producing a virtual format during the Covid-19 pandemic, Cartoons Underground is back with a one-day in-person event for its 11th edition! The festival will be held on 22 October 2022 at at Projector X: Picturehouse cinema.
Cartoons Underground is Southeast Asia's largest animation festival. This year, it attracted 1,681 entries submitted from 96 different countries, which is the highest number of submissions received during the festival's 11-year run. 16 animation works have been specially selected to be screened during the event, followed by a Director Q&A, and a celebratory music-pumpin' afterparty.
Did you notice the many cats in the Cartoons Underground is banner? The drawing is by this year's festival artist Sarah Lim, a Yale-NUS graduate with a degree in Life Sciences and a minor in Arts and Humanities. Sarah scored an internship with Finding Pictures after attending animation courses for 2 years. She was then involved with prop and character design for their latest TV series, Puberteens, and is now eager to tell more stories through animation and art.
Besides the screening during the festival, the annual Golden Durian Awards will announce the winners of this year's International Selection and Best Singapore Student Animation categories. 7 animation films from the students of LASALLE College of the Arts and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have been selected for the latter award. You can check out the selected films on Cartoon Underground's festival programme page here: https://cartoonsunderground.com/program-list-2022.
This year's esteemed Jury tasked with choosing the winners are:
* Seng Choon Meng, Founder and CEO of Scrawl Animation
* Leong Puiyee, Senior Manager of Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film
* Don Richmond, Singer/Songwriter and Music Director/Composer/Producer
* Yeow Su Xian, Illustrator/Animator and CU 2021 Winner of Best SG Student Film
Cartoons Underground is the great chance to network with industry leaders, and to admire the artistry of animation films in a wide range of styles and topics. Early Bird tickets are at SGD 15 till 30 September 2022. After which, tickets are at SGD 18. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis at the Projector X: Picturehouse cinema.
So, get your tickets at cartoonsunderground.com while you still can!
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