Family Day at Manchester Animation Festival 2019
Manchester Animation Festival announces Family Day, Sunday 10th November. The Festival’s program includes:
- A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
- Shorts include Rebel Girls – Moon Landing: The Story of Margaret Hamilton, Partridge in a Bear Tree & Papergee and the Spider.
- Lego Stop motion Workshop
Manchester Animation Festival’s (MAF) Family Day, will take place on Sunday 10 November, 10:00-15:00 at HOME on Manchester’s First Street.
As part of its brand-new five-day format, MAF Family Day returns inviting children and families for a day of animated fun including Short Films for Children, a collection of the best in animated shorts from around the world and a screening of A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon.
The Festival, now in its fifth year, is the largest animation festival in the UK, and its packed programme includes animated short competitions, feature films, retrospective screenings, workshops, networking events, panel discussions, masterclasses and Making Ofs from some of the brightest and best talent in the industry.
Events and activities at the Family Day are listed below:
Lego Stop Motion Workshop
10:30 – 12:30 + 13:30 – 15:30
This two-hour fun, creative and hands-on LEGO stop-motion workshop is the perfect activity to get you to discover and show off your creative talents by creating a stop-motion animation movie.
Tickets: £20 per child
Colour Me MAF
10:00 – 15:00
As well as screenings we’ll have pictures available for colouring throughout the day from all the amazing films that you can see during Family Day!
Free Drop In
Short Films for Children
10:30 – 11:45
A collection of the best in contemporary animated children’s short film from around the world! Join us as we go on adventures to space, the South American Wilds, oceans, the life of a homing pigeon and more in this lovely collection of family shorts.
Adult Full Price £6/Child & Conc £5
Jacob, Mimmi and The Talking Dogs
12:00 – 13:10
Jacob lives in the city and dreams of becoming an architect like his busy dad. One day dad needs to go away on business for longer than usual and Jacob has to spend the whole week with his bossy cousin Mimmi and her ex-pirate father Eagle. As soon as Jacob arrives it turns out that the local park is about to be transformed into new skyscrapers by a greedy businessman. Jacob and Mimmi decide to stop the development. It turns out that they can only do it with the help of a pack of local dogs that… can talk!
Adult Full Price £6/Child & Conc £5
A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
13:30 – 15:00
For Shaun the Sheep’s second feature-length movie, A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon takes the world’s favourite woolly hero and plunges him into an hilarious intergalactic adventure he will need to use all of his cheekiness and heart to work his way out of..
Adult Full Price £6/Child & Conc £5
Tickets and passes are on sale now, for more details see www.manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk
