FILM CRITICISM WORKSHOPS

WHERE: Apteka Designu, Mikołaja Kopernika 19A, 31-531 Kraków
WHEN: October, 23rd - 24th 2024, 11 AM - 1 PM
GUEST: Nancy Denney-Phelps

We cordially invite you to a film criticism workshop dedicated to animation. During two two-hour sessions, together with critic Nancy Denney-Phelps, you will have the opportunity to talk about films, improve your skills and write a review of a selected film or festival.

All you will need is a piece of paper and a pen, or a laptop. On the first day, we will talk about what makes a review valuable, how to develop your own writing style and what makes a given article interesting to the reader. Then, you will watch four different animations together and after choosing one of them, following the guidelines discussed earlier, you will write a review. If a critical text is not enough, you will also be able to write a report from the festival. The next day, participants will present their texts, which will be discussed by the whole group. Before the workshops, all participants will have to read an article about a film festival of their choice from the website run by Nancy Denney-Phelps: http://awn.com/blogs/sprockets

We accept applications until October, 15th at: olga.jozefiak@etiudaandanima.pl

The workshops will be held in English.

Nancy Denney-Phelps is a journalist writing about European animation and festivals as well as a producer of music for animation.  Along with her composer/musician husband Nik Phelps, she co-founded the Sprocket Ensemble, dedicated to presenting live performances of original music with screenings of contemporary animation from around the world. Nancy’s writings have appeared in such publications as CARTOON and ANIMATOON as well as on her regular blog for AWN (Animation World Network).  She is also a regular correspondent for ASIFA/San Francisco and a member of the ASIFA International Board of Directors as well as an Ambassador At Large for the Emile Awards. Nancy has served on numerous International Animation Festival juries and taught time management for animators at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Art and Design. She is the pitching coach at ANIMARKT in Łódź, Poland as well as a member of their Brain Trust Advisory Board.  She also awards the annual Nancy Award at the Kaboom Animation Festival in Amsterdam and is a member of the ANIMASYROS Festival Team. Her strong interest in the history of animation has led her to present programs on the history of animation traced through music at many animation festivals and conferences worldwide. She also works as advisor to several animation festivals and in 2019 was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the ANIMAKOM Animation Festival in Bilbao, Spain. In 2022 Nancy received the Giannalberto Bendazzi Award from the Paris International Animation Film Festival.

Her strong interest in the history of animation has led her to present programs on the history of animation traced through music at many animation festivals and conferences worldwide. In 2019, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Animakom Festival. In 2022, she received the Giannalberto Bendazzi Award at the Paris International Animation Film Festival.