Cinematic Deputy of Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance: A Perspective of Future Animation
It has been nearly three decades since the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance began its work, and throughout all this period, it has been the main responsible organization for all of the country's culture and artistic events. However all these years Iranian animation art has been neglected by these artistic-culture authorities, and it has not been recorded that the Ministry of culture and Islamic Guidance, has ever introduced animation as one of the fields supported by it.
With this background the current Cinematic Deputy of the Ministry's attention to Iranian animation, and making it a duty for Documentary and Experimental Film Association to support animation artists, is an effective and important event.
Based on this, there will be a professional session with the head of Cinematic Deputy participation, to both honoring this important step, and to provide a proper ground for informing Iranian animation artists, the points of view and policies.
Mohammad-Reza Delpak: Sound and Animation
Although the entrance of computer and software's in to realm of filmmaking and especially animated films production have prepared the ground for flourishing of creativity and presentation of new experiences, it has also caused some unwanted subsequent.
One of these subsequent is the activity of non-professional people in different branches of film production, especially sound and sound recording.
Regarding that in animation, sound must be actually "Constructed" and needs "Audio Special Effects", the non-professional people who are merely familiar with a certain software can not design and produce a proper audio aspect for animated films. Therefore, the art of animation is somehow loosing its professional audio aspect.
Since, in professional sessions of the festival, Mohammad-Reza Delpak, one of the experienced and professional sound designers of Iranian Cinema who has grasped several achievements, will speech on audio aspects of animation, definition and necessities of sound design.
Mohammad-Reza Delpak is born in 1954, Tehran and have a M.A. degree. Besides being a member of Iranian Sound-Recordist Association, he has taught at Soureh Cultural-Artistic Institute (Tehran and Isfahan), Young Filmmaker Center, Beh-Andish Cultural-Artistic Institute and Jahad-Daneshgahi.
He won the Best Sound from Iranian Cinema House Awards for "Color of Paradise" and "Baran". Also five best sound-mix nomination at Fajr Film Festival and winner of four Crystal Simorgh for sound-mixing of "To Born A Butterfly", "Color of Paradise", "Baran" and "Traveling To Tomorrow".
Saeed Tavakolian: Memorable Single Frames
Animation art-industry is indebted to the curiosities of struggled in the labyrinth of their imagination to accomplish actual experiences. The book "The Memorial Single Frames", in its broad conception, is an effort to reconsider the most fundamental visual roots of what is called "animation".
The book which is published for 5th edition of Tehran International Animation Festival tries to review and summarize the diverse methods used by animation artists of Iran and the world in the last hundred years, and introduce the most influential works that have been selected through a broad comparison. There is no doubt that in the given time, the author did not have enough time to register all successful works and many notable works have remained unmentioned.
Although in the initial parts of the book, all point relevant to the emergence and progression of animated films are mentioned chronologically, in the later parts I have neglected some methods such as puppet animation, traditional and computer animation. Therefore, the focus will be on the works in which individual creativity has led to visual inventions. For a better study and comprehension of different animation methods, the book includes numerous images.
Sometimes highly interwoven that sometimes, conventional methods are also inevitably mentioned.
The ancient literature folk culture narratives, fictions, anecdotes, fables and rich Persian mystical fictions have prepared an idea to reach for new visual techniques. I hope this book could obtain the idea.
Saeed Tavakolian
Zhang Xin: Chinese Animation
Zhang Xin was born on August 22, 1961 in Beijing. B.A. in French Literature from the University of International Relations and M.A. in Arts from Faculty of Arts, Beijing University.
From 1983 to 1999, he worked in Bureau for External Cultural Relations, Ministry of Culture. In this period, he was sent to work in the Cultural Section of Chinese Embassy in Morocco and France. Since 1999, Zhang Xin works in Center of International Cultural Exchange (CICE), Ministry of Culture. In 2003, he established the China International Animation and Digital Arts Festival (CICDAF) in China and has successfully organized three editions of CICDAF by 2006.
He was a jury member for the National Award of China Animation Association in 2006.
Currently, he is the director of cultural events of Center of International Cultural Exchange (CICE), and deputy Secretary-General of China International Animation and Digital Arts Festival (CICDAF).
He will lecture about Chinese Animation, the past and the feature.