Conversations with filmmakers selected to the festival.
Moved by what’s happening to the environment, director Simone Giampaolo discusses the genesis of his award-winning film, Only A Child.
From a 12-year-old female activist to the environmental themes of Frederick Back’s films, Giampaolo has set out to make a film that he hopes will effect change. Collaborating with twenty Swiss directors, and using just as many varied mediums of animation, Giampaolo has directed an award-winning masterpiece that will not move you but motivate you. It’s a film of our time and a timeless film.
SPEAKER
Simone Giampaolo
Director, Animator, CG Artist // Independent
(Only a Child, Obki, Hope?, White + Black = Red, Stonehend)
Simone Giampaolo is a Swiss London-based director and animator with an insatiable appetite for storytelling. In 2013 he graduated with Distinction from the BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts course at the National Centre for Computer Animation in Bournemouth (UK). Between 2014 and 2018 Simone worked as animation director and CG generalist in the commercial department at Blue-Zoo Animation on a multitude of projects for clients such as Cartoon Network, Disney, LEGO, Nickelodeon, Marvel, Lucasfilm and BBC. After finishing crafting a mini-series at Jellyfish Pictures in 2019, he’s been directing several commissioned films at Aardman Animations (which is representing him as short-form director).
Website // Twitter // Instagram // LinkedIn
MODERATOR
Keith Blackmore
Sr. Lecturer // Vancouver Film School
As an animation historian, Keith Blackmore has been a passionate cheerleader and a voice for all-things animated in the Vancouver area for almost 30 years. As one of the producers of the SPARK ANIMATION Festival and an active member of the local SIGGRAPH chapter, Keith has presented, interviewed and moderated at many festivals, local and national.
Since 1995, Blackmore has educated, entertained and inspired students in the history of animation and media studies at the Vancouver Film School. When he’s not reading, teaching or talking about animation, he’s watching it.
Conversations with filmmakers selected to the festival.
Moved by what’s happening to the environment, director Simone Giampaolo discusses the genesis of his award-winning film, Only A Child.
From a 12-year-old female activist to the environmental themes of Frederick Back’s films, Giampaolo has set out to make a film that he hopes will effect change. Collaborating with twenty Swiss directors, and using just as many varied mediums of animation, Giampaolo has directed an award-winning masterpiece that will not move you but motivate you. It’s a film of our time and a timeless film.
SPEAKER
Simone Giampaolo
Director, Animator, CG Artist // Independent
(Only a Child, Obki, Hope?, White + Black = Red, Stonehend)
Simone Giampaolo is a Swiss London-based director and animator with an insatiable appetite for storytelling. In 2013 he graduated with Distinction from the BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts course at the National Centre for Computer Animation in Bournemouth (UK). Between 2014 and 2018 Simone worked as animation director and CG generalist in the commercial department at Blue-Zoo Animation on a multitude of projects for clients such as Cartoon Network, Disney, LEGO, Nickelodeon, Marvel, Lucasfilm and BBC. After finishing crafting a mini-series at Jellyfish Pictures in 2019, he’s been directing several commissioned films at Aardman Animations (which is representing him as short-form director).
Website // Twitter // Instagram // LinkedIn
MODERATOR
Keith Blackmore
Sr. Lecturer // Vancouver Film School
As an animation historian, Keith Blackmore has been a passionate cheerleader and a voice for all-things animated in the Vancouver area for almost 30 years. As one of the producers of the SPARK ANIMATION Festival and an active member of the local SIGGRAPH chapter, Keith has presented, interviewed and moderated at many festivals, local and national.
Since 1995, Blackmore has educated, entertained and inspired students in the history of animation and media studies at the Vancouver Film School. When he’s not reading, teaching or talking about animation, he’s watching it.
